Professor Hasan Yucel Basdemir
Academic Visitor
Address
- Street
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Dugald Stewart Building
- City
- 3 Charles Street, Edinburgh
- Post code
- EH8 9AD
- Street
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Ankara Yildirim Beyazit Universitesi
Esenboga Kulliyesi - City
- Ankara - TURKEY
- Post code
- 06760
Background
Hasan Yucel Basdemir is an Associate Professor in Islamic Philosophy at the University of Ankara Yildirim Beyazit, Turkey. His research is focused on comparative epistemology, in particular Islamic philosophers and post-Gettier philosophers, fredoom of religion, ethics and politics relation and Islamic political thought. He authored Ethical Foundations of Liberalism (Liberte, 2009), The Problem of Definition of Knowledge in Contemporary Epistemology (Hitit Kitap, 2010) and Politics and Ethics (Liberte, 2017), and edited Religious Freedom and Laicism in Turkey (Liberte, 2011) and Political Ideologies with Bugra Kalkan (Adres, 2017).
Qualifications
Ph.D. Philosophy and Religious Studies, Ankara University, 2007
M.A. Philosophy and Religious Studies, Ankara University, 2000
B.A. Ankara University, Ankara, 1996
Research summary
Comparative epistemology
Ethics and politics relations
Islamic political thought
Freedom of religion