Gaye Çankaya Eksen

Gaye Çankaya Eksen is an Associate Professor in the Department of Philosophy at Galatasaray University. She earned her PhD in Philosophy in 2013 through a joint doctoral program between Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne University and Galatasaray University. A revised version of her doctoral dissertation was published in French under the title Spinoza et Sartre. De la politique des singularités à l’éthique de générosité (Paris: Classiques Garnier, 2017). In collaboration with Turhan Ilgaz, she translated Jean-Paul Sartre’s L’Être et le néant (Being and Nothingness) into Turkish. Her research and publications specialise in early modern and contemporary philosophy, with a particular emphasis on the thought of Baruch Spinoza and Jean-Paul Sartre. Her work addresses issues in ethics, political philosophy, phenomenology, environmental philosophy, and contemporary debates concerning non-human animals.