death_date death_place birth_place era school_tradition influences main_interests birth_date article_title name region
21 may 2000 istanbul ankara contemporary philosophy analytic p. f. strawson philosophy of language philosophy of mind 6 july 1949 arda denkel
 arda denkel western philosophy
arda denkel

arda denkel -lrb- 1949 -- 2000 -rrb- was a turkish philosopher .
he studied at the university of oxford and , under peter strawson , wrote his d. phil .
dissertation which he later developed into a more expansive study with his book the natural background of meaning in 1999 .
upon his return to turkey he became an important promoter of analytical philosophy in turkey , a country traditionally almost entirely cultivated within a continental atmosphere , and became a faculty member in the philosophy department at the bogazici university in istanbul for the rest of his life .
he was twice a visiting professor at the university of wisconsin between 1985 and 1989 , and served as a member of the steering committee of the european society for analytic philosophy -lrb- esap -rrb- between 1996 and 1999 .
he also authored several other books and articles in both turkish and english , including his object and property in 1996 .
he died in 2000 after a prolonged fight with a brain tumour .
