Speaker: Emre Şan
In the third seminar, titled Ontological Difference, we will first examine the relationship between the existence of consciousness and the existence of things according to Husserl. Then, we will discuss Heidegger’s moves against Kant and Husserl in the context of the question of existence. Thus, we will be exposing the principal arguments and conclusions of the idea of ontological difference, which is one of the most particular features of contemporary thought.
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.