Prof. Nurbay Irmak

Ph.D., University of Miami, USA
+90 (212) 359 4934 / JF510 / Office hours: Thursdays 2-3pm or by appointment
Metaphysics, Bioethics.
Completed TUBITAK projects:
Years: 2020 - 2021
Project title: The Nature of Abstract Artifacts
Years: 2014 - 2016
Project title: The Right to Refuse Medical Treatment in Turkey
Completed BAP projects:
Years: 2015 - 2018
Project title: Concept Pluralism and Artifactual Theory of Language
Courses taught (selected):
Introduction to Philosophy, Informal Logic, Bioethics, Applied Ethics, Ontology, Metaphysics of Art Objects, Metaphysics Through Star Trek, Metaontology
Updated on Aug 16, 2024.
Irmak, Nurbay. (forthcoming). “Artifacts without Authors: Generative Artificial Intelligence and the Question of Authorship”, Metaphysics.
Irmak, Nurbay. (forthcoming). “The Mess We Make: On the Metaphysics of Artifact Kinds”, Erkenntnis. (Q1 AHCI)
Irmak, Nurbay. (2024). “Against the Property Theory of Musical Works”, Res Philosophica, Vol 101 (3), pp. 531-547. (Q1 AHCI)
Irmak, Nurbay. (2023). “Type Realism Reconsidered”, The Journal of Aesthetics and Art Criticism, Vol 81 (4), pp 497-507. (AHCI)
Irmak, Nurbay. (2021). “Authorship and Creation”, The Journal of Aesthetics and Art Criticism, Vol 79 (2), pp. 175-185. (Q1 AHCI)
Irmak, Nurbay. (2021). “The Problem of Creation and Abstract Artifacts”, Synthese, Vol 958, pp. 9695-9708. (Q1 AHCI, SSCI)
Irmak, Nurbay. (2019). “An Ontology of Words”, Erkenntnis, Vol 84 (5), pp. 1139-1158. (Q1 AHCI)
Irmak, Nurbay. (2016). “Right to Refuse Treatment in Turkey: A Diagnosis and a Slightly Less Than Modest Proposal for Reform”, Journal of Medical Ethics, Vol 42 (7), pp. 435-438. (Q1 SSCI)
Irmak, Nurbay. (2015). “Professional Ethics in Extreme Circumstances: Responsibilities of Attending Physicians and Healthcare Providers in Hunger Strikes”, Theoretical Medicine and Bioethics, Vol 26 (4), pp. 249-263. (Q2)
Irmak, Nurbay. (2014). “Must Everything Go? A Critique of Ontic Structural Realism”, [In Turkish], Felsefe Tartışmaları 49, pp. 35-46.
Irmak, Nurbay. (2013). "The Privilege of the Physical and the Status of Ontological Debates", Philosophical Studies. Vol.166 (S1), pp. 1-18. (Q1 AHCI)
Irmak, Nurbay. (2012). "Software is an Abstract Artifact", Grazer Philosophische Studien. Vol.86, pp. 55-72. (Q1)
Baç, Murat and Irmak, Nurbay. (2011). "Knowing Wrongly: An Obvious Oxymoron, or a Threat for the Alleged Universality of Epistemological Analyses?", Croatian Journal of Philosophy. Vol.11 (3), pp. 305-321. (Q2 AHCI)
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