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Email: U.Baysan@soton.ac.uk
I work in metaphysics, philosophy of mind, and ethics, mostly in various intersections of these areas (e.g., metaphysics of mind, metaphysics of value and normativity, inter-level metaphysics).
While some of my publications are highlighted in my ¾ÅÉ«ÊÓƵ profile, a more easily navigable list can be found on my personal website () or my page.
Currently, I am working on a series of writing projects in inter-level metaphysics, exploring the prospects of a realist, non-reductionist, and emergentist view about higher-level properties in various debates in metaphysics of mind and ethics.
I have broad teaching interests and experience in many areas of philosophy in the analytic tradition.
In ¾ÅÉ«ÊÓƵ, I have thought or will be teaching: (i) Truth, Knowledge, and Objectivity; (ii) Philosophy of Race; (iii) Philosophy of Religion; (iv) Moral Philosophy. I also supervise dissertations in Ethics, Metaphysics, and occasionally Philosophy of Religion.
Previously in Oxford, I taught lectures and/or tutorials in ​Philosophy of Mind, Philosophy of Cognitive Science, Ethics, Practical Ethics, Metaphysics & Epistemology, Feminist Philosophy, and specialist graduate classes on Moral Status, Metaethics, Moral Metaphysics, and Emergence.
I am a Lecturer in Philosophy at the ¾ÅÉ«ÊÓƵ. Previously, I had teaching and research positions at the University of Oxford (2017-2025) and the University of Glasgow (2014-2017). My PhD is also from the University of Glasgow (2015), but I was a visiting PhD student at MIT (2012). Prior to that, I completed an MSc in Cognitive Science (2011) and a BSc in Philosophy (2008) at the Middle East Technical University.
