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  • Metaphysical foundations of Freudian psychology: |a transcendental reconsideration 
    Dost, Ayfer. (Thesis (M.A.) - Bogazici University. Institute of Social Sciences, 1997., 1997.)
    In the present thesis we compare the metaphysical foundations of Kant's ontology (as it is given in Kant's First Critique) and Freud's psycho-analytic theory. This comparison involves an investigation of the understanding ...
  • Mind and representation 
    Gökel, Nazım. (Thesis (Ph.D.)-Bogazici University. Institute for Graduate Studies in the Social Sciences, 2013., 2013.)
    There are various kinds of views in the history of philosophy that have been offered as an account for the nature of mind. We can classify those views under two main categories as monist and dualist metaphysics of mind. ...
  • 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 ...
  • 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 ...
  • Moral autonomy and moral health in Kant 
    Tilev, Seniye. (Thesis (Ph.D.) - Bogazici University. Institute for Graduate Studies in the Social Sciences, 2021., 2021.)
    This study aims to show that Kantian autonomy is not only compatible with but further aims at moral health. To achieve this task, I focus on Kant’s account of judging and show that judging provides the continuity from the ...
  • Musical experience: musical process, emotion and meaning 
    Doğan, Başak. (Thesis (M.A.) - Bogazici University. Institute for Graduate Studies in the Social Sciences, 2015., 2015.)
    This thesis aims to indicate the crucial link between musical processes and the emotion and meaning we get. Every musical experience arises from the expectations, which are shaped through listening. The expectations in the ...
  • 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 ...
  • Nedensel anlam kuramı 
    Denkel, Arda, 1949- (Thesis (Assoc. Prof.) - Bogazici University. Institute for Graduate Studies in Social Sciences, 1981., 1981.)
  • Nietzsche and the notion of truth 
    Çekiç Littardi, Özümcan. (Thesis (M.A.) - Bogazici University. Institute for Graduate Studies in the Social Sciences, 2018., 2018.)
    The aim of the thesis is to focus on the notion of truth as it constitutes one of the core problems in Nietzsche’s philosophy. After making some preliminary remarks on certain technical and approach-related problems, it ...
  • Normativity in Wittgenstein :|a critique of the calculus picture 
    Bakır, Onur. (Thesis (Ph.D.)-Bogazici University. Institute for Graduate Studies in the Social Sciences, 2022., 2021.)
    In this dissertation, I argue that Wittgenstein’s both early and late writings can be read as two different critiques of the calculus conception of language and two different attempts to provide alternative accounts of ...
  • 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 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 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 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 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 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 ...
  • One is: a reading of Plato's parmenides in respect of parmenides' poem 
    Akça, Ergün Ahmet. (Thesis (Ph.D.)-Bogazici University. Institute for Graduate Studies in Social Sciences, 2007., 2007.)
    This dissertation offers a new analysis and evaluation of a part of Plato’s dialogue Parmenides, focussing on the hypothesis “one is” from the perspective of historical Parmenides’ poem or, more precisely the goddess’ ...
  • Ontoparadigms: a de-struction of social constructionism in the context of Heidegger's conception of truth 
    Aktok, Özgür. (Thesis (Ph.D.)-Bogazici University. Institute for Graduate Studies in the Social Sciences, 2012., 2012.)
    This thesis de-constructs social constructionism in the context of Heidegger's conception of truth and develops the concept of onto paradigm through this de-struction in order to deal with some basic problems arising within ...
  • Origins of critique: subject, rationality and praxis in critical theory 
    Özdemir, Onur. (Thesis (M.A.)-Bogazici University. Institute for Graduate Studies in Social Sciences, 2007., 2007.)
    In this study, I aim to inquire about the origins of Critical Theory with a view to its conception of critique. The concept of critique is articulated by reference to its opposition to mere criticism, because in that ...

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