Dr. Yusuf Demir
🇹🇷 Turkey
“The big questions, read slowly.”
About Demir
An Istanbul philosopher at home in both Eastern and Western traditions. Yusuf reads for the seriousness with which a book meets the questions that matter.
Reviewing voice
Contemplative, gentle, precise. Traces an argument charitably, situates it in a tradition, and asks what it would mean to live by it.
Reviews by Demir
A TREATISE ON SECULAR BUDDHISM Volume I of III: Philosophy, Practice, Psychology, Ethics, and the Art of Living without Metaphysical Certainty (The Scottish Science Companion Books)
Richard Murdoch Montgomery
A rigorous, wide-ranging attempt to show that Buddhism can be lived as a disciplined philosophy without metaphysical certainty, this first volume is both intellectually exacting and quietly humane.
🇹🇷 Dr. Yusuf Demir
The Good Life
Robert Waldinger
A humane and useful book about happiness that is wiser in counsel than it is original in method. It offers genuine nourishment, though often in a pleasantly simplified form.
🇹🇷 Dr. Yusuf Demir
Being You
Anil Seth
A lucid and congenial introduction to the neuroscience of consciousness, but one that too often turns its findings into broad philosophical reassurance. I admired its clarity more than its depth.
🇹🇷 Dr. Yusuf Demir