Boğaziçi Üniversitesi Tezleri: Recent submissions

  • Strategies for feminist critique of science: an evaluation 
    Sezener, Ayşegül. (Thesis (M.A.)-Bogazici University. Graduate Institute of Social Sciences, 2005., 2005.)
    In my thesis, I have mainly argued for two claims: i) that feminist critique of science is a legitimate philosophical agenda in that its philosophical grounds are not refuted or completely discredited as its critics sometimes ...
  • Challenging Isaiah Berlin's distinction between negative and positive freedom 
    Doğruöz, Hakan Şükrü. (Thesis (M.A.)-Bogazici University. Institute for Graduate Studies in Social Sciences, 2004., 2004.)
    Isaiah Berlin is one of the key figures who has dominated the field of social freedom with his distinction between negative and positive conceptions of freedom. In this dissertation, I have argued that analyzing freedom ...
  • Aeschylus' Oresteia and his idea of justice 
    Sel, Esen. (Thesis (B.A.) - Robert College, 1958., 1958.)
  • A comparison of Aristotelian and Cartesian highest human goods 
    Safalı, Levent. (Thesis (M.A.)-Bogazici University. Institute for Graduate Studies in Social Sciences, 2004., 2004.)
    The present thesis is an attempt to analyze and compare two philosophers' accounts of the highest human good: Aristotle's and Descartes'. My main goal has been, after understanding the conceptual frameworks necessary to ...
  • Philosophy as anti-sophistic 
    Yiğit, Rezzan İlke. (Thesis (M.A.)-Bogazici University. Institute for Graduate Studies in Social Sciences, 2004., 2004.)
    The present thesis is an attempt to give a definition of philosophy by looking at the philosopher's definition of sophistry. My main goal has been to understand the conceptual framework in which sophistry and philosophy ...
  • Reference to the future 
    Natalina, Elena. (Thesis (M.A.)-Bogazici University. Institute for Graduate Studies in Social Sciences, 2004., 2004.)
    The thesis investigates the issue of speaker's and semantic reference to future objects. The conditions for each type of reference are developed by using some aspects of the descriptivist and causal theories of reference, ...
  • Surpassing wantonness by appealing to emotions :|a Neo-Frankfurtian approach to freedom of the will 
    Boylu, Ayça. (Thesis (M.A.)-Bogazici University. Institute for Graduate Studies in Social Sciences, 2004., 2004.)
    In this thesis, I question whether certain kinds of emotions are necessary for one's realization of freedom. In searching an answer to this question, I focus on a specific approach to freedom, namely the Frankfurtian ...
  • Constitutive a priori 
    Erdur, Melis. (Thesis (M.A.)-Bogazici University. Institute for Graduate Studies in Social Sciences, 2004., 2004.)
    Recently there has been a renewed interest in the issue of a priority. Many philosophers have proposed accounts that attempt to establish the existence of a priori propositions while avoiding the difficulties of the former ...
  • Scientism and democracy within science 
    Gül, Ahmet. (Thesis (M.A.) - Bogazici University. Institute for Graduate Studies in Social Sciences, 2022., 2022.)
    In this thesis I examine understanding, a cognitive phenomenon which for many philosophers has a distinct epistemic standing than that of knowledge. Understanding, it is assumed, requires some cognitive abilities that ...
  • Experience in autism spectrum disorder as evidence for the relationship between simulation theory and empathy 
    Ramadan, Hashem. (Thesis (M.A.) - Bogazici University. Institute for Graduate Studies in the Social Sciences, 2022., 2022.)
    Much of the discussion around theory of mind (ToM) puts autism spectrum disorder (ASD) in the spotlight because of its many symptoms affecting social cognition and interaction. More specifically, simulation theory in ...
  • Ignorance, blindness, and how to tell them apart 
    Özbak, Uğur. (Thesis (M.A.) - Bogazici University. Institute for Graduate Studies in the Social Sciences, 2021., 2021.)
    In this thesis I examine, explicate, and defend an epistemology of perception which does justice both to the sentient and to the sapient aspects of human perceptual knowledge. Following Kant and Dretske, I distinguish ...
  • Restorative justice :|in pursuit of social justice 
    Arıcan, Erhan Efe. (Thesis (M.A.) - Bogazici University. Institute for Graduate Studies in the Social Sciences, 2022., 2022.)
    In 2020, there were 1.8 million incarcerated people in the United States. This means that the United States has the highest prisoner rate in the world. This is a civil rights issue. Wicked individuals with ill intentions ...
  • Desire for excellence reflections on Plato and Spinoza 
    Mutlu, Vicdan. (Thesis (M.A.)-Bogazici University. Institute for Graduate Studies in Social Sciences, 2004., 2004.)
    The main aim of this thesis is to provide a good understanding of Plato's and Spinoza's desire for excellence and show in what respects their views resemble and differ from each other. To achieve this aim, their notions ...
  • 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 ...
  • Fragmentation of truth :|Heidegger’s confrontation with Plato 
    Kızılkaya Ünal, Ebru. (Thesis (M.A.) - Bogazici University. Institute for Graduate Studies in the Social Sciences, 2021., 2021.)
    Heidegger’s interpretation of Plato’s concept of truth falsely accuses Plato of incarcerating truth in proposition and losing the experience of truth as un-concealment. Plato didn’t give priority to truth as correctness ...
  • The sorites argument against descriptivism 
    Sezgin, Anıl Seçkin. (Thesis (M.A.) - Bogazici University. Institute for Graduate Studies in the Social Sciences, 2021., 2021.)
    In the theory of reference, descriptivism about proper names is a family of closely related theories which broadly hold that a proper name refers to an object by virtue of being associated, in the idiolect of a speaker, ...
  • "The Unity of Existence" in IbnʿArabī's Seals of Wisdom and Plotinus’ Enneads 
    Ghazani, Rasoul Rahbari. (Thesis (M.A.) - Bogazici University. Institute for Graduate Studies in the Social Sciences, 2021., 2021.)
    The doctrine of ‘the unity of existence’ or ‘oneness of being’, generally referred to as the doctrine of ‘the One,’ is of cardinal importance in philosophy. It has penetrated the Greek and Islamic Metaphysics so deep ...
  • Ineffability and interpretation in Wittgenstein’s philosophy of art 
    Kılıç, Kadir. (Thesis (M.A.) - Bogazici University. Institute for Graduate Studies in the Social Sciences, 2021., 2021.)
    In contemporary philosophy, there is tension between ineffabilist and interpretivist theories of art. The ineffabilist claims that the discontinuity between art and non artistic practices implies the impossibility of ...
  • A reconciliation of two approaches to freedom :|neo-republicanism and Marxism 
    Kılıç, Onur. (Thesis (M.A.) - Bogazici University. Institute for Graduate Studies in the Social Sciences, 2021., 2021.)
    Philip Pettit and Quentin Skinner argue that neo-republican freedom, which is freedom as non-domination, is a negative conception of freedom. It is an alternative to all accounts of positive freedom and the liberal ...