Boğaziçi Üniversitesi Tezleri: Recent submissions

  • Drawing the mark of the normative 
    Jernberg, Matthew. (Thesis (M.A.) - Bogazici University. Institute for Graduate Studies in the Social Sciences, 2015., 2015.)
    What is normativity? What is the mark of the normative? What distinguishes normative from descriptive properties, facts and propositions? A good start at answering these questions is to provide necessary and sufficient ...
  • 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 ...
  • Musical paideia in Plato’s republic 
    Coşkun, İlter. (Thesis (M.A.) - Bogazici University. Institute for Graduate Studies in the Social Sciences, 2015., 2015.)
    This thesis intends to unsettle, at least to some degree, the conviction that music, poetry and fine arts in general do not have a salient status in Platonic philosophy. To this end, the conception of musical education ...
  • The emergence of inostensible reference 
    Doğru, Gökhan. (Thesis (M.A.) - Bogazici University. Institute for Graduate Studies in the Social Sciences, 2015., 2015.)
    This thesis is a struggle to combine the developments in modern linguistics and philosophy of language by focusing on the emergence of inostensible reference. Inostensible reference is a linguistic tool that allows ...
  • A moderate defense of cognitive phenomenology 
    Arıkan, Hakkı Kaan. (Thesis (M.A.) - Bogazici University. Institute for Graduate Studies in Social Sciences, 2014., 2014.)
    Is there a specific phenomenology of thinking? Cognitive phenomenology debate goes about possible answers for this question. According to a liberal conception of phenomenal consciousness, thinking has a sui generis ...
  • Is language a prerequisite for belief? An alternative approach to false-belief understanding and meta-representation 
    Sertalp, Ayşe Büşra. (Thesis (M.A.) - Bogazici University. Institute for Graduate Studies in the Social Sciences, 2015., 2015.)
    Positioning belief within the discussion of philosophy of mind is one of the major issues in this thesis. I find most of the theories developed in this area to be somewhat process-blind and one-sided, such as the ones I ...
  • A critique of Kantian morality from virtue ethics perspective 
    Tilev, Seniye. (Thesis (M.A.) - Bogazici University. Institute for Graduate Studies in Social Sciences, 2014., 2014.)
    In this thesis my aim is to provide an analysis of Kantian Morality from virtue ethics perspective. Kantian morality is commonly misinterpreted, and regarded in an over-simplified and caricaturized manner. As a result of ...
  • Precursory comprehension of being and problem of time in Heidegger's ontology 
    Meriç, Tendü. (Thesis (M.A.) - Bogazici University. Institute of Social Sciences, 1996., 1996.)
    The subject matter of this thesis is precursory comprehension of Being which is the point of departure of Heidegger's question of Being. Heidegger brings out a new conception of time as the possibility of this comprehension. ...
  • A critical examination of the philosophical defense of free logics 
    Altan, Emre. (Thesis (M.A.) - Bogazici University. Institute for Graduate Studies in Social Sciences, 2014., 2014.)
    In classical quantification theory, each singular term available in the formal language must denote some member of the quantificational domain. In this sense, standard systems of predicate logic do not allow for non-denoting ...
  • A strong value-neutral theory of autonomy 
    Güreli, Ozan. (Thesis (M.A.) - Bogazici University. Institute for Graduate Studies in Social Sciences, 2014., 2014.)
    Manipulation and oppressive socialization are among the most senous issues of the contemporary debates on autonomy. Procedual theories of autonomy focus on the way our beliefs are formed and don't rule out or necessitate ...
  • From semantic relativism to reality relativism 
    Toy, Tolgahan. (Thesis (M.A.) - Bogazici University. Institute for Graduate Studies in Social Sciences, 2014., 2014.)
    This thesis is a defense of the view that reality is relative. First I start with semantic relativism, then, I show that semantic relativism implies reality relativism. To argue for semantic relativism, motivated by arguments ...
  • Hegel's concept of concept and Its relationship to Kant's negative magnitudes and Marx's concept of capital in his capital 
    Kuyumcuoğlu, Hüseyin Sungur. (2014.)
    The relationship between Marx's works on political economy and Hegel's philosophy has been the subject matter of numerous discussions and inquiries. Many of those inquiries take an issue with the relationship between Marx's ...
  • 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 ...
  • Socio-political conditions of desire’s freedom in Spinoza and Hegel 
    Çelik, Olcay. (Thesis (M.A.) - Bogazici University. Institute for Graduate Studies in Social Sciences, 2014., 2014.)
    In Spinoza and Hegel desire is defined as the very essence of everything and their philosophies provide us a perspective through which we can understand that the movements of our thoughts and bodies are taken actually ...
  • The unconcealedness of the truth: a study in Heideggerian understanding of truth 
    Kılıkçıer, Ahmet Serkan. (Thesis (M.A.) - Bogazici University. Institute for Graduate Studies in Social Sciences, 2014., 2014.)
    This thesis attempts to elaborate on different accounts of truth in Heidegger’s philosophy to investigate whether Heidegger’s understanding of Being as manifestness is metaphysically constructed. After this our investigation ...
  • Interest-relative determination of reference for the so-called natural kind terms 
    Geçmen, Kerem. (Thesis (M.A.) - Bogazici University. Institute for Graduate Studies in Social Sciences, 2014., 2014.)
    The aim of the present study is to show the important role human interests/concerns play in the determination of reference for kind terms such as gold, water, tiger etc. which are commonly discussed in the literature as ...
  • Heidegger on Kant: temporality and imagination 
    Mavituna, Cansen. (Thesis (M.A.) - Bogazici University. Institute for Graduate Studies in Social Sciences, 2014., 2014.)
    The subject matter of this thesis is Heidegger’s reading of Kant with temporality as the central concern. Heidegger interprets Kant’s project in Critique of Pure Reason as an ontological inquiry and appreciates Kant for ...
  • The functional ground of the organization of the living body in Aristotle 
    Atalay, Gizem. (Thesis (M.A.) - Bogazici University. Institute for Graduate Studies in Social Sciences, 2013., 2013.)
    The living body is a complex structure consisting of multiple parts, and its structural arrangement shows variations from one species of living beings to another. Yet, despite the differences in their structures, the parts ...
  • Kantian empirical cognition and singular concepts 
    Özdağ, Cenk. (Thesis (M.A.) - Bogazici University. Institute for Graduate Studies in the Social Sciences, 2013., 2013.)
    The subject-matter of this thesis is the distinction between empirical intuitions and empirical concepts in terms of two criteria, namely the singularity criterion and the immediacy criterion. The goal of the thesis on ...
  • The concept of bildung Hegel's phenomenology and nineteenth century European novel 
    Gürle, F. Meltem. (Thesis (M.A.) - Bogazici University. Institute of Social Sciences, 1996., 1996.)
    This thesis presents an analysis of the pattern of Bildung (fonnation, development, education) in Hegel's Phenomenologie des Geistes (phenomenology of Mind/Spirit) upon a background of nineteenth century novel. Focusing ...