Browsing by Author "Irmak, Nurbay."

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  • An ontological discourse on storytelling 
    Ay, Esi Şirin. (Thesis (M.A.) - Bogazici University. Institute for Graduate Studies in the Social Sciences, 2022., 2022.)
    The aim of this thesis is to propose a new way to accurately study the nature of stories. There are three main questions I set out to answer: (1) How can stories be repeatable? (2) How can we characterise stories? (3) ...
  • Artifact concept pluralism 
    Güngör, Alper. (Thesis (M.A.) - Bogazici University. Institute for Graduate Studies in the Social Sciences, 2022., 2022.)
    Countless artifacts surround our lives. We have a rough idea of what artifacts are: artifacts are objects made to serve a certain purpose. However, there is no consensus on how to specify this definition. Essentialists ...
  • Digital artifacts as abstract objects :|an ontological comparison to musical works 
    Aktaş, Duygu. (Thesis (M.A.) - Bogazici University. Institute for Graduate Studies in the Social Sciences, 2019., 2019.)
    Digital objects such as computer programs, web-based programs, social media accounts etc. appear to change enormously. One position is that such changes are only results of some linguistic conventions rather than true ...
  • Fundamental quantification and the ontology room 
    Kazaklı, Doğan Can. (Thesis (M.A.) - Bogazici University. Institute for Graduate Studies in the Social Sciences, 2015., 2015.)
    If ontologists use quantifiers in different meanings, does it lead to a merely verbal disagreement or does their disagreement concern something substantive about how the world is? According to Theodore Sider, the disagreement ...
  • Identity, quantification and sortals 
    Alibaş, Adil. (Thesis (Ph.D.)-Bogazici University. Institute for Graduate Studies in the Social Sciences, 2019., 2019.)
    The topic of this thesis is the exploration of the relations between first-order quantification and identity and between identity conditions and sortals. In the first chapter, I will formulate a version of the thesis ...
  • In defense of ordinary objects: a study in common sense ontolog 
    Irmak, Nurbay. (Thesis (M.A.)-Bogazici University. Institute for Graduate Studies in Social Sciences, 2009., 2009.)
    In this thesis I defend a common sense view regarding the ontological status of ordinary objects. It is a defense against philosophers who have believed and argued for the idea that the manifest objects of everyday human ...
  • On ordinary objects 
    Dayan, Göksu. (Thesis (M.A.) - Bogazici University. Institute for Graduate Studies in the Social Sciences, 2019., 2019.)
    In this thesis, I discuss Amie Thomasson’s framework defending the existence of ordinary objects and some criticisms raised by Jonathan Schaffer and Simon Evnine and then provide two original arguments against Thomasson. ...
  • Rule consequentialist perspectives on suicide 
    Nayır, Beşir Özgül. (Thesis (M.A.) - Bogazici University. Institute for Graduate Studies in the Social Sciences, 2018., 2018.)
    Suicide has always been a philosophically interesting topic since the ancient times. It is questioned within different branches of philosophy, and moral philosophy is one of them. The moral question of suicide concerns ...

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