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Brief History

The Philosophy Department, which is part of the Faculty of Science and Literature in Muş Alparslan University took students for the first time in the 2009-2010 academic year. It took 83 students in the 2009-2010 academic year, and 75 of them graduated in 2013. Even though the Philosophy Department started the academic year with a limited number of academic staff, the department has increased to seven research assistants, one lecturer, seven assistant professors and a professor. The Philosophy Department also started a double major program in Sociology in 2016, and this program produced six graduates in 2017.

The main goal of the Philosophy Department is to introduce and teach the main philosophical disciplines of metaphysics, ethics, logic, political philosophy, aesthetics, philosophy of sciences, philosophy of language, philosophy of religion and epistemology. The aim at the end of this teaching is to provide students with philosophical competence and the ability to evaluate the problems of the age. Graduates of the Philosophy Department be employed as philosophy teachers under the Ministry of Education or can teach in private schools. They can work in the media industry, in areas related to culture and art, and at universities as academic members.

As humans, we constantly exceed our limits and create opportunities through existential possibilities. The activities humanity has generated so far, such as science, arts, technology etc., can be evaluated as an indicator of this. But to go beyond our present situation and reach out to the future, we must extend our intellectual horizon and find creative solutions and approach these events in a holistic and critical way. Philosophy education, with all the disciplines it possesses, provides these abilities to people. Also, through philosophical thinking, that is, a critical, holistic and interrogator way of thinking, people can be more competent at the interpretation of the past, correctly understanding the present and predicting the future.

Besides these important educational attainments, our students find opportunities to compare cross-cultural philosophical ideas throughout their undergraduate study. By realizing the common concerns in different philosophical views, put into words through the history of philosophy, they can create a tool which can be useful in terms of their own culture. Thanks to ethics lessons, one of the main disciplines of philosophy, they can see how living together within the scope of universal human values requires attention.

Our expectation from our students is that they will acquire the practices which improve both themselves and the society they live in through their undergraduate study.

Our University hosted the second ‘Orient Philosophy Days’ event, and the main theme addressed ‘Questioned Philosophy’.