Boğaziçi Üniversitesi Tezleri: Recent submissions

  • Understanding oppression and exploitation through disability: Intersectionality, surplus populations, and radical needs 
    Kenter, Balam Nedim. (Thesis (M.A.) - Bogazici University. Institute for Graduate Studies in the Social Sciences, 2018., 2018.)
    What is oppression? What is exploitation? What is the relationship between the two? How a theory answers such questions may determine its scope and emancipatory politics. An answer that prioritizes oppression and makes ...
  • Who are the political friends? Homonoia and political friendship in Aristotle’s political thinking 
    Hepçağlayan, Cansu. (Thesis (M.A.) - Bogazici University. Institute for Graduate Studies in the Social Sciences, 2017., 2017.)
    The notion of political friendship holds a unique institutional function in Aristotle’s political philosophy. He considers political friendship, as a specific account of friendship between citizens of the polis, as an ...
  • Abstract objects as constituents of external reality: A defense of the fregean account against Dummett’s objections 
    Karabağ, Ahmet Özcan. (Thesis (M.A.) - Bogazici University. Institute for Graduate Studies in the Social Sciences, 2017., 2017.)
    In his Foundations of Arithmetic (1980) Gottlob Frege sets out to give an account of the existence of some types of abstract objects by means of justifying ascription of reference to singular terms purporting to refer ...
  • Problems of self-knowledge and phenomenal character 
    Yoldaş, Tuğba. (Thesis (M.A.) - Bogazici University. Institute for Graduate Studies in the Social Sciences, 2017., 2017.)
    Self-knowledge regarding sincere attributions about mental states, bodily sensations, perceptions, and the phenomenal character of experiences seem direct and true. However, the questions of how we acquire such knowledge ...
  • Models, causes and capacıtıes: A new account for laws of nature 
    Türker, Özer (Thesis (M.A.) - Bogazici University. Institute for Graduate Studies in the Social Sciences, 2018., 2018.)
    Humans have reached a consensus about the regularity of nature. However, we have not reached a consensus about what grounds that regularity yet. My thesis tries to address the question of what grounds the regularity of ...
  • Exact semantics for indicative conditionals 
    Güngör, Hüseyin. (Thesis (M.A.) - Bogazici University. Institute for Graduate Studies in the Social Sciences, 2017., 2017.)
    This thesis extends Kit Fine’s exact semantics and account of counterfactuals to nonhabitual, non-predictive indicative conditionals. First, I provide Fine’s exposition of exact semantics and his extension to counterfactuals. ...
  • The problem of 'understanding' in Martin Heidegger's Being and Time 
    Alpar, F. Neren. (Thesis (M.A.) - Bogazici University. Institute of Social Sciences, 2001., 2001.)
    This thesis examines understanding as a fundamental existentiale in Heidegger's Being and Time, and its grounding position to all activities of cognizing. The ultimate goal of the thesis is to reveal the metaphysical basis ...
  • Modeling belief revision via belief bases using situation semantics 
    Bozdağ, Ayşe Sena. (Thesis (M.A.) - Bogazici University. Institute for Graduate Studies in the Social Sciences, 2017., 2017.)
    The belief base approach to belief representation and belief dynamics is developed as an alternative to the belief set approaches, which are pioneered by the AGM model. The belief base approach models collections of ...
  • Sources of repression, aggression and liberation in Erich Fromm and Herbert Marcuse 
    Aksoy Ozansü, Esen. (Thesis (M.A.) - Bogazici University. Institute for Graduate Studies in the Social Sciences, 2017., 2017.)
    Why humans are the only species that kills systematically? What are the sources of aggression? What are the unconscious mechanisms through which repression of instincts leads to an increase in aggression? How do social ...
  • Aristotle's notion of physis and its implications for his thics 
    Akarsu, Cansu. (Thesis (M.A.) - Bogazici University. Institute for Graduate Studies in the Social Sciences, 2016., 2016.)
    This thesis aims to analyze Aristotle's conception of eudaimonia, human well-being, with a view to his understanding of physis, nature. It focuses on the effects of Aristotle's teleological understanding of nature on his ...
  • Freedom and reconciliation in Hegel‟s philosophy of right 
    Karakaya, Elif. (Thesis (M.A.) - Bogazici University. Institute for Graduate Studies in the Social Sciences, 2016., 2016.)
    In this thesis, my aim is to examine Hegel‟s notion of reconciliation in relation to the concept of freedom. In Outlines of the Philosophy of Right, Hegel claims that modern state has a rational core which makes it possible ...
  • The problem of infinity: A pendulous swing between empiricism and metaphysics 
    Arslan, Nesibe Sena. (Thesis (M.A.) - Bogazici University. Institute for Graduate Studies in the Social Sciences, 2016., 2016.)
    This thesis is an attempt to evaluate the resolutions and further discussions about Zeno’s paradoxes of motion, which approach the matter from two different viewpoints: empirical and metaphysical. I examine the empirical ...
  • A quest for social justice: A critique of Hayek’s social philosophy 
    Muğurtay, Nihat. (Thesis (M.A.) - Bogazici University. Institute for Graduate Studies in the Social Sciences, 2016., 2016.)
    For Hayek, the rule of law and principles of social justice strictly exclude each other. According to laissez-faire philosophers the concept of the rule of law excludes all substantive equality, positive liberty, affirmative ...
  • Redefining expectations in belief revision theories 
    Korkmaz, Oğuz. (Thesis (M.A.) - Bogazici University. Institute for Graduate Studies in the Social Sciences, 2016., 2016.)
    In his 2001 book Change, Choice and Inference, Hans Rott offers a theory of belief change that utilizes a version of belief base revision. An outstanding feature of Rott’s theory is that it places emphasis on the concept ...
  • Radical constructivism in science education 
    Muğaloğlu, Ebru Zeynep Aktürk. (Thesis (M.A.)- Bogazici University. Institute of Social Sciences, 2001., 2001.)
    Radical constructivism is a popular version of constructivism. It is introduced as an unconventional approach to knowing and learning by its leading representative Ernest von Glasersfeld. In my thesis, first, I present von ...
  • Aristotle’s De Anima II.5 in the light of the Literalism–Spiritualism debate 
    Çetinkaya, Ekrem. (Thesis (M.A.) - Bogazici University. Institute for Graduate Studies in the Social Sciences, 2016., 2016.)
    This thesis aims to offer a detailed and critical reading of a section of De Anima, namely of DA II.5, which appears to occupy a central place in a modern debate between literalist and spiritualist interpreters of Aristotle’s ...
  • The representation of empty names in modal logic 
    Aşkın, Enver Deniz. (Thesis (M.A.) - Bogazici University. Institute for Graduate Studies in the Social Sciences, 2016., 2016.)
    In the course of this thesis, I will argue that empty proper names, both fictional and non-fictional, always have assumed fixed referents whose existence is assumed as a second-order property; and that the truth-value of ...
  • Mary’s epistemic gain in the knowledge argument 
    Özdemir, Eyyüphan. (Thesis (M.A.) - Bogazici University. Institute for Graduate Studies in the Social Sciences, 2016., 2016.)
    Frank Jackson’s Knowledge Argument claims that a person who knows everything physical about color vision cannot yet know what it is like to see red and this demonstrates that physicalism is false. My thesis largely aims ...
  • Logicism and Gödel’s incompleteness theorems 
    Polat, Berk. (Thesis (M.A.) - Bogazici University. Institute for Graduate Studies in the Social Sciences, 2016., 2016.)
    The view of logicism which dates back to eighteenth century when Leibniz thought that mathematical statements are nothing more than identity statements is the view that mathematics is reducible to logic. This idea brings ...
  • An analtysis of educational themes Hegel’s Philosophical Outlines of Justice 
    Güngör, Pınar. (Thesis (M.A.) - Bogazici University. Institute for Graduate Studies in the Social Sciences, 2016., 2016.)
    This thesis aims to show that Hegel’s Philosophical Outlines of Justice implicitly presents the structure, principles and key aspects of a systematic philosophy of education. The main argument will be based on the idea ...