Associate Professor

Email: fgursozlu@loyola.edu
Phone: 410-617-5229
Office: Humanities Center 050K

Personal Profile

Education

• Ph.D., Philosophy, Binghamton University, 2010
• M.A., Philosophy, Binghamton University, 2006
• B.A., Philosophy, Boğaziçi University, 2002

Courses Taught

• PL 201: Foundations of Philosophy
• PL 210: Politics and Society
• PL 330: Social and Political Philosophy
• PL 334: Contemporary Political Philosophy
• PL 343: Philosophy of Human Rights
• PL 391: Global Justice
• HN 499: The Examined Life

Publications

Books

• Agonistic Democracy and Political Practice (under contract with Palgrave Macmillan)
• Peace, Culture, and Violence, edited (Brill: Leiden, 2018).

Articles

• “Democracy and Peace: Is Democracy Good for Peace?,” in Peaceful Approaches for a More Peaceful World, edited by Sanjay Lal, (Leiden: Brill, 2022), pp 8-29.
• “The Triumph of Liberal Democratic Peace and the Dangers of Its Success,” in The Routledge Handbook of Pacifism and Nonviolence, edited by Andrew Fiala (London: Routledge, 2018), pp. 213-224.
• “Cultural Violence, Hegemony and Agonistic Interventions,” in Peace, Culture, and Violence, edited by Fuat Gürsözlü (Brill: Leiden, April 2018), pp. 84-105.
• “Democratic Potential of Creative Political Protest,” Critical Studies: International Journal of Humanities 3 (Fall 2017): 20-31.
• “Democracy and the Square: Recognizing the Democratic Value of Recent Public Sphere Movements,” Essays in Philosophy 16:1 (2015): 26-42.

Areas of Specialization

• Social and Political Philosophy
• Political Theory
• Philosophy of Peace
• Contemporary Continental Philosophy