H. Melisa Acar
2691454a@student.gla.ac.uk
https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8036-8870
Research title: Priority View in Human Rights
Research Summary
- I am interested in various political and legal philosophy topics, including freedom, liberalism, global justice, epistemic (in)justice, the metaphysics and the practice of human rights.
- Within the framework of my PhD project, I am working on developing a new theory of human rights with core and non-core rights. Additionally, I continue to research on the nature and the ethics of power, resistance and success.
- Note: I have been appointed as visiting fellow in Harvard University - Philosophy Department for 2025 Fall.
Publications
Book:
- Özgürlüğün Rotası (The Route to Freedom) - A Fictional Philosophical Project which discusses the different dimensions of freedom in near future, it has been published by Destek Media Group (2024)
Book Review:
- John Merriman - Modern Avrupa Tarihi (A History of Modern Europe) - (2021)
- Francis Cornford - Dinden Felsefeye (From Religion to Philosophy) - (2021)
Supervisors
Grants
- PhD Research Award - Princeton University - Princeton, United States (2024)
- PhD Research Support Fund - Graduate School - University of Glasgow, Glasgow - United Kingdom (2024)
- International Scholarship - University of Glasgow, Glasgow - United Kingdom (2022)
- Academic Excellence Scholarship- Ibn Haldun University, Istanbul - Turkey (2020)
- Graduation as the Top Student - Katip Celebi University, Izmir - Turkey (2020)
- Deanship Travel Grant - Katip Celebi University, Izmir - Turkey (2018)
Conferences
- Why Do We Need a New Branch of Philosophy: Philosophy of Success (Society for Applied Philosophy Conference), Poland, Gdansk (2025)
- One Truth is Not Enough: On The Limitations of Monist Human Rights Theories (University of Oxford - Philosophy Department - DPHIL Seminar) (2025)
- The Function of Political Propoganda (University of Oxford - All Souls College - Volutary Presentation in Authoritarianism Course) (2025)