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  • A late Wittgensteinian approach to early Christian apophaticism 
    Sadıkoğlu, Çetin. (Thesis (M.A.) - Bogazici University. Institute for Graduate Studies in the Social Sciences, 2021., 2021.)
    This thesis investigates the possibility of a ground on which language can provide us with an opportunity to talk about God, despite the concerns about His ineffability as argued by religious apophaticism. Apophaticism is ...
  • A moderate defense of cognitive phenomenology 
    Arıkan, Hakkı Kaan. (Thesis (M.A.) - Bogazici University. Institute for Graduate Studies in Social Sciences, 2014., 2014.)
    Is there a specific phenomenology of thinking? Cognitive phenomenology debate goes about possible answers for this question. According to a liberal conception of phenomenal consciousness, thinking has a sui generis ...
  • A philosophical inquiry into Nasreddin Hodja stories 
    Tığlı, Gizem. (Thesis (M.A.) - Bogazici University. Institute for Graduate Studies in the Social Sciences, 2019., 2019.)
    Overall, this thesis is about Nasreddin Hodja’s stories. Selected stories from a trustworthy source in Anatolian Turkish are used and then translated into English with the effort of keeping the essence of the actual ...
  • A philosophical interpretation of the unconscious in light of Wilfrid Sellars’ reasons – causes dichotomy 
    Kuyumcuoğlu Tütüncüoğlu, Nezihe Müge. (Thesis (M.A.) - Bogazici University. Institute for Graduate Studies in the Social Sciences, 2015., 2015.)
    Wilfrid Sellars’ contribution to the nature versus intellect problem is to challenge the idea that knowledge involves a causal relation between nature and intellect. He transformed the distinction by showing that ontological ...
  • 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 ...
  • 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 ...
  • A strong value-neutral theory of autonomy 
    Güreli, Ozan. (Thesis (M.A.) - Bogazici University. Institute for Graduate Studies in Social Sciences, 2014., 2014.)
    Manipulation and oppressive socialization are among the most senous issues of the contemporary debates on autonomy. Procedual theories of autonomy focus on the way our beliefs are formed and don't rule out or necessitate ...
  • A Study on Plato's attack on democracy 
    Ersu, Erkin. (Thesis (B.A.)-Robert College, 1958., 1958.)
  • 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 ...
  • Aeschylus' Oresteia and his idea of justice 
    Sel, Esen. (Thesis (B.A.) - Robert College, 1958., 1958.)
  • Aestheticism and the romantic absolute: new mythology of early German romanticism 
    Küçükarslan, Onur. (Thesis (M.A.)-Bogazici University. Institute for Graduate Studies in the Social Sciences, 2008., 2008.)
    This study claims that Early German Romanticism introduced an authentic and independent philosophical perspective by refusing various dualisms of Kant and Fichte’s postulation of first principles and foundations of ...
  • Against causal efficacy of dispositions 
    İçen, İlksen Necati. (Thesis (M.A.)-Bogazici University. Institute for Graduate Studies in the Social Sciences, 2008., 2008.)
    The present thesis is an investigation of dispositional properties and their manifestations as a way to give causal explanations in sciences. According to Stephen Mumford, even though by appealing to dispositional explanations ...
  • Against historicism and aestheticism: Walter Benjamin's critical philosophy of film 
    Arınç, Cihat. (Thesis (M.A.)-Bogazici University. Institute for Graduate Studies in the Social Sciences, 2008., 2008.)
    When "aesthetics" emerged in the eighteenth century, there was no advent of different theories for various branches of art. In the nineteenth century, philosophical aesthetics literature deepened along with works written ...
  • 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 ...
  • An ethical criticism of industrial animal farms 
    Aracı, Seçil. (Thesis (M.A.)-Bogazici University. Institute for Graduate Studies in the Social Sciences, 2010., 2010.)
    This thesis argues that it is impossible to defend the practices of industrial animal farms ethically depending on the principle of “do no harm”. “Do no harm” principle is accepted by many ethical theories and introduces ...
  • An introduction to the ontological foundations of Gödel's incompleteness theorems 
    Çitil, Ahmet Ayhan. (Thesis (M.A.) - Bogazici University. Institute of Social Sciences, 1994., 1994.)
    In the present thesis, we carry out an ontological investigation of Goders incompleteness theorems in view of which we obtain an interpretation of Godel's incompleteness results. In our ontological investigation, we determine ...
  • 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) ...
  • 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 ...
  • 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 ...
  • 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 ...

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