Department of Philosophy

I'm Egemen Kocamış. I'm studying at Yildirim Beyazit University in Ankara. I am a second year student in the Department of Philosophy. I want to refer to the general saying: Philosophy is always on the road. We define philosophy as always asking questions, repeating this and never stopping, continuing relentlessly, a different answer to a new question, and that answer leading us to constantly search for a new question. Philosophy forms the cornerstone of many disciplines and thus, helps many sciences. It has played a role in the birth of many sciences. For example, there is philosophy in the birth of social sciences or in the field of different numeric sciences. What is always fundamental is philosophy. Philosophy is the biggest part of our lives, although sometimes we don't see it. Those who are not aware of it actually make philosophy by using philosophy. If we look at the courses given in the Department of Philosophy starting from the first year, we first take introductory philosophy courses with our teachers in the first half of the first year. First of all, you will see Philosophy, even Psychology and Sociology. We are getting these introductory classes. After starting with Introduction to Philosophy, we go through the philosophy of Plato or we start from the philosophy of the first age and take the history of philosophy slowly, going through the Middle Ages, and then we see the philosophies of 17th and 18th centuries. Besides this, of course, there are courses like History of Sociology, General Psychology and Social Psychology. After passing the 3rd and 4th year, we graduate with a mastery of philosophy and philosophers, of the techniques developed by them, but it is up to us to continue forwards.