Professor
Department of Philosophy
Group in Logic and the Methodology of Science
University of California, Berkeley
yalcin@berkeley.edu
I work mostly in the philosophy of language and in philosophical logic. I’ve also published papers in epistemology, the philosophy of cognitive science, metaethics, and in linguistic semantics and pragmatics.
At Berkeley I am a member of the Logic Group and a co-organizer of HPLMS, and I co-founded the Meaning Sciences Club.
I’ve been at Berkeley since Fall of 2009. Before that, I was on the faculty in the department of philosophy at NYU.
Before that, I did my PhD at MIT, graduating in 2008. My thesis chairs were Robert Stalnaker and Stephen Yablo. Alex Byrne and Irene Heim were the other members of my committee. My dissertation was about modality, content, the abstract structure of inquiry, and that sort of thing.
Before MIT, I was an undergraduate at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor. I was a double major in philosophy and linguistics. My undergrad thesis supervisor was Thomas Hofweber. I was part of the founding class of Michigan’s Telluride House.
Before Michigan, I went to Stuyvesant High School. Before that, I went to Shallow Junior High, and before that, to PS 102. I grew up in Bay Ridge, Brooklyn.
My last name is Turkish.
Here's a drawing of me by Michel Gondry.
