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Revision as of 21:05, 12 October 2007 by Julidebanuozturk (talk | contribs)(diff) ← Previous revision | Latest revision (diff) | Newer revision → (diff)Teoman Duralı was born in 1947, Zonguldak, provincial capital on the western shores of the Black Sea. Studied at the University of Istanbul history of philosophy, logic, epistemology and biology. Since 1977 member of staff of the Department of Philosophy/ University of Istanbul.
Dissertation: “The Problem of Living Beings within the Framework of Contemporaneous Thought” (1977).
Habilitation: “The Problem of the Living Being and Evolution in Aristotle’s Philosophy” (1982).
Professorship: “The Evolutionary Bases of (the Kantian) A Priori Cognitive Faculties” (1988).
Teoman Duralı has been teaching philosophy of biology, philosophy of history and history of philosophy at the University of Istanbul and as visiting professor at the Interational Institute of Islamic Thought and Civilization (ISTAC), Kuala Lumpur/ Malaysia (1992 - 1993, 1995, 1997, 1999); philosophy of science at the Science University Penang/Malaysia (1993); Institut für Wissenschaftstheorie und Wissenschaftsforschung, University of Vienna (1994&2003); visiting lecturer, Pensylvania State University (1985); visiting lecturer, Centro Estudios Filosoficos..., Mexico City/ Mexico (1991).
He travelled extensively within Turkey, all over Europe, in Western, Central, East and South East Asia, America...
Publications (a selected list)
Fifty five philosophico-scientific treatises —six in English, the rest in Turkish.
Six books in Turkish:
—“An Introduction to the Problem of the Living Beings”, Istanbul, 1982 & 1987.
—“Philosophy of Biology”, Ankara, 1991.
—“Aristotle's Study of Science and the Problem of the Living Beings”, Istanbul, 1995.
—“From the Modern Secular European to the Contemporaneous Global Anglo-Judaic Civilization”, Istanbul, 1996.
—“Introduction to Philosophy-Science”, Istanbul, 1998.
—“Contemporaneous Global Civilization”, Istanbul, 2000.
―“Teoman Duralı’s Three Discourses/ Science – Philosophy – Theory of Evolution”; Istanbul, 2002.
—“What is the Problem?”, Istanbul, 2006.
—“What is Philosophy-Science?”, Istanbul, 2006.
And one in English:
—“A New System of PHILOSOPHY-SCIENCE from the Biological Standpoint”, Peter Lang, Vienna – New York, 1996.
Monographies (all in English) ―“Preliminary Remarks on the Philosophy of Biology”, Hamdard/Quarterly of Science and Medicine, v: XVII, number: 3, pp: 3 –46, Karachi/Pakistan.
―“Aristotle’s Thoughts concerning the Problem of the Living beings and their Evolution”, Comtes rendus de la Conférence d’Aristote dans le Monde Méditerranéen..., pp: 5 – 30, Editions ISIS, Istanbul – Paris – Rome, 1988.
―“An Introductory Essay on the Biological Foundations of A Priori Cognitive Faculties”, Sixth International Kant Congress, pp: 455 – 469, University Press of America, Washington D.C./USA, 1989.
―“Philosophy-science...”, Uroboros/International Journal of the Philosophy of biology, v: 1&2, pp: 91- 115, Mexico-city/Mexico.
―its Spanish version: “Filosofia-Ciencia A Partir del Punto de Vista Biotico”, Ludus Vitalis, v: 1, p: 1, Mexico-city, 1993.
―“A Reassessment of Human Evolution/ A Spiritual and Material Evaluation of Human Evolution based on Islamic Considerations”, Ludus Vitalis, v: 2, n: 2, Mexico-city, 1994.
―“Evolution/The Epitome of the Emerging Contemporaneous Global Civilization”, Ludus Vitalis, v: 5, n: 9, Mexico-city, 1997.