Speaker: Emre Şan
The first seminar of "Philosophy and Difference" series titled Thinking the Difference, we will go back to the beginning of philosophy and try to look at the relationship between myth and logos with the theme of difference. Then we will consider the emergence of the difference and the questions posed by distinguishing what is heard and thought. The discussion will help us understand the assumptions of the difference problematic in contemporary philosophy.
Emre Şan received his bachelor’s degree from Galatasaray University, and completed his master’s degree and doctorate at Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne. Pursuing a post-doctoral research at École Normale Supérieur following his PhD, Emre Şan’s book on transcendence as a phenomenological problem was published with a preface by Renaud Barbaras (Paris, Mimesis, 2012). The author has published articles in national and international journals and book series, in Turkish, French, English and Spanish, as well as working as an editor in publications on Contemporary French Philosophy. He has been serving as a member of the editorial board of the periodical Cogito, and was awarded the Prix Mercier, presented biennially by L’Université Catholique de Louvain (UCL). Emre Şan is currently an Associate Professor at Istanbul 29 Mayıs University.