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  • A Heideggerian conception of knowledge 
    Çömez, Çağlar. (Thesis (M.A.) - Bogazici University. Institute for Graduate Studies in Social Sciences, 2014., 2014.)
    This thesis is an attempt to develop a conception of knowledge on the basis of the first division of Martin Heidegger’s Being and Time. The first chapter is a brief introduction. In the second chapter, I analyze a series ...
  • A humean reading of Nietzsche: problem of "Is vs. Ought" 
    Demirel, Ertürk. (Thesis (M.A.)-Bogazici University. Institute for Graduate Studies in the Social Sciences, 2008., 2008.)
    The aim of this study is to derive a Nietzschean solution to the inferential gap between the factual premises and the moral conclusion in a moral argument. I argue that the problem is not to be solved on the formal level. ...
  • Conceptual and factual relativity and realism: a theory of absolutism regarding microphysical facts and concepts 
    Adaklı, Nazım. (Thesis (M.A.) - Bogazici University. Institute for Graduate Studies in the Social Sciences, 2015., 2015.)
    Conceptual relativity emerges from Hilary Putnam’s argument referred to as “Carnap and the Polish Logician” and Ernest Sosa’s argument referred to as “the Explosion of Reality”. It is a genuine phenomenon despite Donald ...
  • Empiricism, relativity and the spec-ulative an inquiry for elements of a new philosophical perspective 
    Türken, Alper. (Thesis (Ph.D.)-Bogazici University. Institute for Graduate Studies in the Social Sciences, 2008., 2008.)
    In this thesis, I have argued that a constructive approach to the epistemological difficulties facing contemporary analytical philosophy after the collapse of the “framework of givenness” demands us to revisit our commitments ...
  • Epistemic truth versus non-epistemic truth: toward a revised version of the correspondence theory of truth 
    Durmuş, Deniz. (Thesis (M.A.)-Bogazici University. Institute for Graduate Studies in Social Sciences, 2007., 2007.)
    This thesis defends the idea that truth is a non-epistemic notion that consists in some correspondence relation between our propositions and external reality. Taking into account the criticisms brought to the classical ...
  • Liberal culturalism and the individual: an alternative account of cultural identities 
    Daşhan, Fulya Özlem. (Thesis (M.A.)-Bogazici University. Institute for Graduate Studies in Social Sciences, 2006., 2006.)
    In my thesis I aim to provide a philosophical basis to argue for a version of Pluralism which gives theoretical support for a form of Political Liberalism that is oriented towards enhancing communication among a diversity ...
  • On Davidson’s idea of a conceptual scheme 
    Maşa, Bahadır. (Thesis (M.A.)-Bogazici University. Institute for Graduate Studies in Social Sciences, 2009., 2009.)
    In his article titled “On the Very Idea of a Conceptual Scheme”, Donald Davidson argues that the duality of uninterpreted content and conceptual scheme is the “third” dogma of empiricism. According to Davidson, the idea ...
  • One is: a reading of Plato's parmenides in respect of parmenides' poem 
    Akça, Ergün Ahmet. (Thesis (Ph.D.)-Bogazici University. Institute for Graduate Studies in Social Sciences, 2007., 2007.)
    This dissertation offers a new analysis and evaluation of a part of Plato’s dialogue Parmenides, focussing on the hypothesis “one is” from the perspective of historical Parmenides’ poem or, more precisely the goddess’ ...
  • Ontoparadigms: a de-struction of social constructionism in the context of Heidegger's conception of truth 
    Aktok, Özgür. (Thesis (Ph.D.)-Bogazici University. Institute for Graduate Studies in the Social Sciences, 2012., 2012.)
    This thesis de-constructs social constructionism in the context of Heidegger's conception of truth and develops the concept of onto paradigm through this de-struction in order to deal with some basic problems arising within ...
  • Origins of critique: subject, rationality and praxis in critical theory 
    Özdemir, Onur. (Thesis (M.A.)-Bogazici University. Institute for Graduate Studies in Social Sciences, 2007., 2007.)
    In this study, I aim to inquire about the origins of Critical Theory with a view to its conception of critique. The concept of critique is articulated by reference to its opposition to mere criticism, because in that ...
  • The concept of "ideology" in Nietzsche's philosophy : the construction of the subject 
    Mutlu, Erol. (Thesis (Ph.D.)-Bogazici University. Institute for Graduate Studies in Social Sciences, 2007., 2007.)
    Although Nietzsche employs the concept of “ideology” very rarely, his strong critique of Western culture can be read, in terms of methodology and content, as an analysis of ideology. The values, ideals, idols, illusions, ...
  • The ontology of social relations in Marx's Capital 
    Yılankaya, Banu. (Thesis (M.A.)-Bogazici University. Institute for Graduate Studies in the Social Sciences, 2007., 2007.)
    This thesis aims to read Marx's analysis of value as suggesting an ontology of social relations. To this aim, I will first provide a preliminary account of Marx's philosophy in Capital with a view to expounding the basis ...
  • The seeming middle ground : concessions of a realist 
    Kingston, Laura Elizabeth. (Thesis (M.A.)-Bogazici University. Institute for Graduate Studies in the Social Sciences, 2010., 2010.)
    This project scrutinizes philosophical positions that have both realistic and relativistic tendencies in order to show how the precarious relationship between truth and reality can be stabilised through an endorsement of ...

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