Our Department

Akdeniz University Faculty of Letter

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DEPARTMENT OF PHILOSOPHY

 

The mission of Akdeniz University Department of Philosophy is to educate students who combine correct thinking skills with reliable knowledge, without losing their sense of truth and curiosity, in a multi-discursive millennium, who desire to create a "duet", not a "duel", between the local and the global.

 

 

The Department of Philosophy was founded in 2001 by Prof. Dr. Hasan ASLAN, it continues its activities to train well-equipped philosophy group teachers and academician candidates who have a good command of the international literature and current developments in all disciplines of philosophy and to provide opportunities for their employment.

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Our department started admitting graduate students to the Philosophy Department in 2002, affiliated with the Social Sciences Institute. In the 2005-2006 academic year, the "Bachelor of Philosophy" program was started. Philosophy undergraduate education period is 8 semesters in total. In 2011, the “Philosophy Ph.D.” program was launched.

Our department is a Farabi, Mevlana, Free-Mover, and Erasmus+ program member.

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The vision of the Akdeniz University Department of Philosophy is to train well-equipped philosophy group teachers and academician candidates who are well-equipped with international literature and current developments in all disciplines of philosophy and to provide opportunities for their employment.

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Students who graduate from our department have the opportunity to work as Research Assistants, specialists, and lecturers in addition to doing master's and Doctorate degrees at universities. In addition to the courses in the undergraduate program of the philosophy department, our students who take formation courses work as "Philosophy Group Teachers" in private schools and private teaching institutions in addition to the schools under the Ministry of National Education.