Sonya Özbey

I am a scholar of classical Chinese philosophy with a secondary research specialization in early modern European philosophy. Thematically, my research focuses on conceptions of human and animal identity, as well as intersections of categories of animality, gender, and ethnicity, in different philosophical texts. I am particularly interested in examining the grammar of different types of reasoning that constitutes humans as exceptional, if not superior, and how that then shapes conceptualizations of differences within human communities.