Autor: Ufuk Özen Baykent

Ufuk Özen Baykent studied Teaching Foreign Languages at Uludağ University, Bursa, Turkey, researching the acquisition of referential meaning of words in a foreign language, which was the topic of her MA thesis. Her academic career in teaching foreign languages and linguistics was the motive for her involvement in the philosophy of language. Her PhD focused on philosophy of language and philosophy of mind, with her dissertation looking at Chomsky”s cognitive approach to language. She currently teaches at the Department of Foreign Language Education and the Philosophy Department at Uludağ University.