Imge Oranli

Imge Oranlı is an Assistant Professor of Philosophy in the Interdisciplinary Humanities and Communication Unit (IHC) within the College of Integrative Sciences and Arts. After receiving her PhD degree from DePaul University in 2015, Oranlı returned to her hometown Istanbul (Turkey) and worked as a lecturer of philosophy at Koç University and other institutions, teaching mainly courses on "ethics and everyday life" as well as special topic courses in Continental philosophy. After joining ASU in 2019, Oranlı’s main focus has been her research on theories of moral and political evil and their implications for analyzing state violence, hate crime, genocide and its denial. Basically, she is interested in the relationship between the concept and the phenomena we identify as evil. She has published on theories of evil, violence and epistemic injustice in the peer-reviewed journals Social Epistemology; Interventions; Science et Esprit and wrote invited essays for Philosophy World Democracy and the APA Public Philosophy Blog.