Prof. Dr. Şafak URAL
Topkapi University, Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences. Department of Philosophy

He completed his primary and secondary education in Ankara. He graduated from DTCF Department of Philosophy in 1971. In 1977, he was appointed as an assistant to the Department of Systematic Philosophy at the Faculty of Letters of Istanbul University. In 1978, he received his doctorate with his work titled “An Essay on the Determination of the Principle of Simplicity in Positive Sciences”. He worked at the 1st Institute of Philosophy of the University of Vienna between 1979 and 1980. In 1982, he was appointed as an Assistant Professor to the Department of Systematic Philosophy and Logic at the Faculty of Letters of Istanbul University. He became an Associate Professor in 1983. He received the title of Professor in 1988. He served as the Vice Rector of Istanbul University between 2004 and 2009. He worked as a faculty member in the Department of Logic, of which he was the founder and head, at the Faculty of Letters of Istanbul University between 2000 and 2015; He founded the Istanbul University Logic Application and Research Center in 2014 and served as its president until 2015; he was the head of the Department of Philosophy between 1989 and 2015. He became the founding chairman of the Logic Application Association on December 16, 2014, and was elected as the first president of the Logic Association on January 12, 2015. He has been organizing the Logic Workshop since 2012 and the Logic Summer School since 2014.