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  • 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 ...
  • The republicanism of Philip Pettit in times of crisis 
    Güran, Enes. (Thesis (M.A.) - Bogazici University. Institute for Graduate Studies in the Social Sciences, 2019., 2019.)
    The literature on the long tradition of republicanism has burgeoned in the past few decades. Republicanism with its distinctive theoretical and historical features distinguishes itself from other familiar political ...
  • The role and significance of curiosity in philosophy for children 
    Altıparmak, İrem Günhan. (Thesis (M.A.) - Bogazici University. Institute for Graduate Studies in the Social Sciences, 2019., 2019.)
    Philosophy for Children (P4C) is an educational movement which aims to develop children’s thinking and reasoning skills by means of engaging them in intellectual inquiry and questioning. Though P4C is predominantly based ...
  • The role of artistic intentions in the interpretation of artworks 
    Kaya, Fatma. (Thesis (M.A.) - Bogazici University. Institute for Graduate Studies in the Social Sciences, 2016., 2016.)
    The aim of this thesis is to show that the meaning of an artwork is not determined by the intentions of its creator. Even though, in the normal course of affairs, when we are confronted with an utterance, our cognitive ...
  • The seeming middle ground : concessions of a realist 
    Kingston, Laura Elizabeth. (Thesis (M.A.)-Bogazici University. Institute for Graduate Studies in the Social Sciences, 2010., 2010.)
    This project scrutinizes philosophical positions that have both realistic and relativistic tendencies in order to show how the precarious relationship between truth and reality can be stabilised through an endorsement of ...
  • 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 sublime and its environmental implications 
    Dönmez, Damla. (Thesis (Ph.D.)-Bogazici University. Institute for Graduate Studies in the Social Sciences, 2018., 2018.)
    This research is about the concept of sublime and its environmental ethical implications. I claim that sublime, as an aesthetic concept, is helpful to give us moral motivation for the preservation of nature. We have a ...
  • The theory of time as relations 
    Er, Memduh. (Thesis (M.A.)-Bogazici University. Institute for Graduate Studies in Social Sciences, 2006., 2006.)
    The aim of this thesis is to analyze "The Problem of Change" and to investigate a possible solution that solves the problem. To achieve this end two rival analytical approaches, namely endurance theory and perdurance theory, ...
  • 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 ...
  • "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 ...
  • Therapeutic philosophy:|Advantages and limitations 
    Özer, Can. (Thesis (M.A.) - Bogazici University. Institute for Graduate Studies in the Social Sciences, 2019., 2019.)
    Wittgenstein saw philosophy as an activity of clarification and description of various language-games. Following his methodology, this thesis outlines a Wittgensteinian political philosophy that is equipped with the ...
  • Thought, critique, and novelty in Kant’s critical philosophy 
    Pusar, Güçsal. (Thesis (M.A.)-Bogazici University. Institute for Graduate Studies in Social Sciences, 2009., 2009.)
    The main concern of the thesis is to expose the specifically critical thrust of Kant’s conception of genius. The guiding thread of our investigation is Kant’s conceptualization of taste as the discipline of genius. We argue ...
  • Tragic error and the Augustinian Morals 
    Eksen, Kerem. (Thesis (Ph.D.)-Bogazici University. Institute for Graduate Studies in the Social Sciences, 2010., 2010.)
    The aim of the present thesis is to reconsider the notion of “tragic error” from a philosophical perspective and by concentrating mainly on the thought of Augustine. Our starting-point has been the differences between the ...
  • Transcendental apperception and knowing that i am 
    Gökmen, Arzu. (Thesis (M.A.) - Bogazici University. Institute for Graduate Studies in the Social Sciences, 2015., 2015.)
    In the Critique of Pure Reason, Kant makes an enigmatical assertion that in the transcendental apperception “I am conscious of myself not as I appear to myself, nor as I am in myself, but only that I am.” This thesis is ...
  • Trope theory and resemblance 
    Çöğendez, Neva. (Thesis (M.A.) - Bogazici University. Institute for Graduate Studies in the Social Sciences, 2019., 2019.)
    According to the resemblance nominalist view, objects have properties with respect to their resemblance relations. Groups of objects that resemble each other constitute a resemblance class and every resemblance class ...
  • Two approaches to poverty: a comparative study on Amartya Sen's theory of capability deprivation and the framework of socil exclusion 
    Yuncu, Latife Demet. (Thesis (M.A.)-Bogazici University. Graduate Institute of Social Sciences, 2005., 2005.)
    All through history, different concepts have been employed to explain poverty. In contemporary debates about poverty, social exclusion and capability deprivation are two influential approaches. Both approaches highlight ...
  • 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 ...
  • Understanding self-consciousness 
    Dilek, Çağlan Çınar. (Thesis (M.A.) - Bogazici University. Institute for Graduate Studies in Social Sciences, 2011., 2011.)
    The aim of this thesis is to understand the nature of self-consciousness by examining self and consciousness. Taking Strawson’s sense of Self as an inner mental entity as a starting point, I discuss if agency and personality ...
  • Unveiling Kant’s Transcendental Deduction of the categories 
    İşeri, Melsen Tunca. (Thesis (M.A.) - Bogazici University. Institute for Graduate Studies in Social Sciences, 2011., 2011.)
    Kant attempts to establish a correlation between the unity of self-consciousness and the experience of an objectively valid world in the “Transcendental Deduction” of the Critique of Pure Reason. For this purpose, he plots ...
  • Voluntary active euthanasia: justifications and regulations 
    Canca, Cansu. (Thesis (M.A.)-Bogazici University. Institute for Graduate Studies in Social Sciences, 2007., 2007.)
    Voluntary active euthanasia is the most controversial category of euthanasia, which itself causes a great amount of discussions. This thesis defends the position that voluntary active euthanasia should be considered morally ...

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