Halid Metin Yolcu

Halid Metin Yolcu is a historian of philosophy working on ancient Greek philosophy and its transmission into Arabic. His research centres on Plato and the Platonic tradition, the harmonization of Plato and Aristotle from the School of Alexandria to early Islamic philosophy, and the Arabic pseudo-Aristotelian corpus. He received his PhD from Istanbul University in 2026 with a dissertation on the harmonization of Plato's and Aristotle's doctrines, after an MA (2020) on the reception of Plato in al-Fārābī. He is a research assistant in philosophy at Sakarya University and has been selected as a postdoctoral researcher on the ERC project ArOMa at the University of Pisa, where he was a visiting doctoral researcher in 2024–2025 (TÜBİTAK 2214-A). He has translated Leo Strauss and Charles H. Kahn into Turkish.