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  • O Ergatis, 1908-09:|Ottomanism, national economy and modernization in the Ottoman Empire through a Greek-language newspaper of Izmir 
    Moroni, Anastasia Ileana. (Thesis (M.A.)-Bogazici University. Institute for Graduate Studies in Social Sciences, 2004., 2004.)
    O Ergatis (The Worker) is a Greek-language newspaper published in Izmir from August 1908 until April 1909. It was being published by a group belonging to the Ottoman Greek bourgeoisie, with the cooperation of a Muslim, a ...
  • Oğuz Atay's dialogue with the Western canon in The Disconnected 
    Gürle, Fahrünnisa Meltem. (Thesis (Ph.D.)-Bogazici University. Institute for Graduate Studies in Social Sciences, 2008., 2008.)
    Drawing centrally upon the work of the Russian critic Mihail Bakhtin, this study compares Oğuz Atay’s poetics with those of the canonic authors, and demonstrates how he copes with the authority of the past while building ...
  • 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 ...
  • On Hannah Arendt’s conception of judgment with regard to political action: an attempt at reconciling the perspectives of actor and spectator 
    Menasse, Sophie. (Thesis (M.A.) - Bogazici University. Institute for Graduate Studies in the Social Sciences, 2014., 2014.)
    This thesis explores the relation between judgment and action in Arendt’s theory and comprises four main arguments. Firstly, I challenge the argument that there is a shift in Arendt’s theory of judgment from a future-­‐oriented ...
  • 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. ...
  • On properties of return distributions in İstanbul Stock Exchange 
    Karahan, Mehmet Oğuz. (Thesis (M.A.)-Bogazici University. Institute for Graduate Studies in Social Sciences, 2004., 2004.)
    In this thesis study, the distributional behavior of return series of Istanbul StockExchange (ISE) stocks and some ISE indices are analyzed. Normality tests are conducted by employing Kolmogorov-Smirnov and Jarque-Bera ...
  • On scrambling in Turkish 
    Akan, Tamer. (Thesis (M.A.)-Bogazici University. Institute for Graduate Studies in Social Sciences, 2009., 2009.)
    This thesis aims to investigate the nature of the scrambling phenomenon in Turkish under the assumptions of minimalist program, which is the last phase of generative grammar. It focuses on the type of movement observed in ...
  • On suffixhood and verbalness: a Mirror Theoretic approach 
    Bayırlı, İsa Kerem. (Thesis (M.A.) - Bogazici University. Institute for Graduate Studies in Social Sciences, 2012., 2012.)
    In this thesis, I argue that suffixal and verbal status of a grammatical object can be predicted from its syntactic position within the framework of the Mirror Theoretic syntax of Brody (2003). I first show that in Turkish ...
  • On the 'undead' father of Turkey: the impossible mourning of young Atatürkists 
    Kaplan, Hilal, 1982-. (Thesis (M.A.)-Bogazici University. Institute for Graduate Studies in the Social Sciences, 2009., 2009.)
    This study aims to analyze the discursive and non-discursive practices which are centered around Atatürk as a signifier. Based on the narrative analysis of the interviews conducted during fieldwork, it intends to adress ...
  • On the Axelrod’s social influence model with obstruction 
    Eden, Neval Polat. (Thesis (M.A.) - Bogazici University. Institute for Graduate Studies in Social Sciences, 2011., 2011.)
    People associate and bond with similar others (the principle of homophily). The interactions resulting from these bonds even make them more similar (the principle of social influence). Despite this tendency towards local ...
  • On the existence of equilibrium in a two-class economy with production 
    Ünveren, Burak. (Thesis (M.A.)-Bogazici University. Institute for Graduate Studies in Social Sciences, 2006., 2006.)
    This thesis considers a production economy which consists of distinct sets of workers and capitalists as agents. Both workers and capitalists provide labor for production of two distinct types of consumer goods, one of ...
  • On the identity of emotions: concepts, feelings, and intentionality 
    Dolun, Botan. (Thesis (M.A.)-Bogazici University. Institute for Graduate Studies in Social Sciences, 2009., 2009.)
    Historically, the philosophy of emotion deals with the question of what emotions are and how they relate to other types of mental states. This thesis gives an answer to this question in two consecutive steps. First, we ...
  • On the nature of anaphoric expressions kendi/ kendisi and the clause structure of Turkish 
    Palaz, Bilge. (Thesis (M.A.) - Bogazici University. Institute for Graduate Studies in the Social Sciences, 2013., 2013.)
    This thesis analyzes the distributional differences between the third person singular reflexive kendi and its variant kendi-si “him/her-self + 3SGPOSS” in Turkish within the assumptions of the Binding Theory and provides ...
  • On the nature of the semantics-pragmatics distinction 
    Polat, Mustafa. (Thesis (Ph.D.) - Bogazici University. Institute for Graduate Studies in the Social Sciences, 2020., 2020.)
    In linguistics and philosophy; syntax, semantics, and pragmatics are typically held to characterize some complementary yet distinct aspects (i.e. explanans) in a language with respect to some related significance (i.e. ...
  • On the number of brackets in piecewise linear income tax systems: An application 
    Bodur, Elif. (Thesis (M.A.) - Bogazici University. Institute for Graduate Studies in the Social Sciences, 2017., 2017.)
    This thesis aims to explore the welfare impacts of using different number of brackets to collect a specific amount of tax revenue in a piecewise linear income tax system. It does this by analyzing the effect of the number ...
  • On the possibility of nonconceptual experience: the case of music experience 
    Ar, Özge. (Thesis (M.A.)-Bogazici University. Institute for Graduate Studies in Social Sciences, 2009., 2009.)
    The present thesis concerns the possibility of nonconceptual concent from a representationalist framework. It briefly reviews the literature on nonconceptual content. It takes conceptuality and nonconceptuality as features ...
  • On the rigidity of general terms 
    Yavuz, Alper. (Thesis (M.A.) - Bogazici University. Institute for Graduate Studies in Social Sciences, 2012., 2012.)
    The aim of this thesis is to discuss whether general terms are rigid and if they are, how their rigidity should be interpreted. To this end, I first present the problems related to the rigidity of general terms. The most ...
  • On the role of empty onsets in Turkish: a government phonology approach 
    Nuhbalaoğlu, Derya. (Thesis (M.A.)-Bogazici University. Institute for Graduate Studies in Social Sciences, 2010., 2010.)
    This study investigates the distribution of empty onsets [Ox-O] in careful and casual speech of Turkish in the framework of (Standard) Government Phonology (GP). It is proposed that the occurrence of a certain type of an ...
  • On the significance of analyticity: a study on the controversy between Carnap and Quine 
    Korkut, Buket. (Thesis (M.A.)-Bogazici University. Institute of Social Sciences, 2003., 2003.)
    This thesis is a study on the significance of analyticity, in particular, on the controversy between Carnap and Quine regarding analyticity. The analysis follows an historical order of Carnap's two periods: syntax and ...
  • On word order in Gostivar Turkish 
    Tufan, Şirin. (Thesis (M.A.) - Bogazici University. Institute of Social Sciences, 2001., 2001.)
    This study, first, determines whether G.T. is a free word order language or a configurational language. An analysis of quantifier scope relations in simplex structures in G.T. suggests that G.T. is a configurational language. ...

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