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  • Bilgili, Hanife. (Thesis (M.A.) - Bogazici University. Institute for Graduate Studies in Social Sciences, 2011., 2011.)
    This thesis aims at examining and evaluating Quine’s objections to modal logic. In the history of the study of modality there has been an effort to offer a system that is capable of putting the subject in question out ...
  • 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 ...
  • Tracy, Sean Michael. (Thesis (M.A.) - Bogazici University. Institute for Graduate Studies in the Social Sciences, 2015., 2015.)
    I intend in this paper to determine the extent to which particular fundamental principles of Islam are compatible with some form of comprehensive liberalism based upon the primary value of individual autonomy as described ...
  • Yücel, Tuğba Sevinç. (Thesis (Ph.D.)-Bogazici University. Institute for Graduate Studies in the Social Sciences, 2015., 2015.)
    The aim of the present thesis is to explore the solidaristic foundations of Rawls’ liberal theory of justice. Critics commonly argue that Rawls neglects solidarity and civic bonds, and adopts an individualistic perspective. ...
  • Çil, Dilek Arlı. (Thesis (Ph.D.)-Bogazici University. Institute for Graduate Studies in the Social Sciences, 2017., 2017.)
    The aim of this thesis is to show that unity is possible in civil society. In the literature on the distinction between community and civil society, community is conceived as containing positive social relations which ...
  • 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 ...
  • Natalina, Elena. (Thesis (M.A.)-Bogazici University. Institute for Graduate Studies in Social Sciences, 2004., 2004.)
    The thesis investigates the issue of speaker's and semantic reference to future objects. The conditions for each type of reference are developed by using some aspects of the descriptivist and causal theories of reference, ...
  • Arıcan, Erhan Efe. (Thesis (M.A.) - Bogazici University. Institute for Graduate Studies in the Social Sciences, 2022., 2022.)
    In 2020, there were 1.8 million incarcerated people in the United States. This means that the United States has the highest prisoner rate in the world. This is a civil rights issue. Wicked individuals with ill intentions ...
  • Nayır, Beşir Özgül. (Thesis (M.A.) - Bogazici University. Institute for Graduate Studies in the Social Sciences, 2018., 2018.)
    Suicide has always been a philosophically interesting topic since the ancient times. It is questioned within different branches of philosophy, and moral philosophy is one of them. The moral question of suicide concerns ...
  • Arslan, Nesibe Sena. (Thesis (Ph.D.) - Bogazici University. Institute for Graduate Studies in Social Sciences, 2022., 2022)
    This study offers an examination of a certain kind of philosophical scepticism, e.g., scepticism about other minds, in relation to our way of knowing and understanding others. We take scepticism about other minds as an ...
  • Gül, Ahmet. (Thesis (M.A.) - Bogazici University. Institute for Graduate Studies in Social Sciences, 2022., 2022.)
    In this thesis I examine understanding, a cognitive phenomenon which for many philosophers has a distinct epistemic standing than that of knowledge. Understanding, it is assumed, requires some cognitive abilities that ...
  • Buhara, Berrak. (Thesis (M.A.)-Bogazici University. Institute for Graduate Studies in Social Sciences, 2009., 2009.)
    Speaking of things that do not exist constitutes a significant part of our conversations. It happens when we talk about such things as the tenth planet, Phlogiston, the Loch Ness Monster or the Yeti. When speaking of what ...
  • Koçak, Ayşe Özge. (Thesis (M.A.)-Bogazici University. Institute for Graduate the Social Sciences, 2007., 2007.)
    This thesis aims at analyzing the content of perceptual experience with a view to understand whether non-conceptual perceptual content is possible. To do so, the definition and the function of perception are evaluated to ...
  • Çelik, Olcay. (Thesis (M.A.) - Bogazici University. Institute for Graduate Studies in Social Sciences, 2014., 2014.)
    In Spinoza and Hegel desire is defined as the very essence of everything and their philosophies provide us a perspective through which we can understand that the movements of our thoughts and bodies are taken actually ...
  • 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 ...
  • Sezener, Ayşegül. (Thesis (M.A.)-Bogazici University. Graduate Institute of Social Sciences, 2005., 2005.)
    In my thesis, I have mainly argued for two claims: i) that feminist critique of science is a legitimate philosophical agenda in that its philosophical grounds are not refuted or completely discredited as its critics sometimes ...
  • Boylu, Ayça. (Thesis (M.A.)-Bogazici University. Institute for Graduate Studies in Social Sciences, 2004., 2004.)
    In this thesis, I question whether certain kinds of emotions are necessary for one's realization of freedom. In searching an answer to this question, I focus on a specific approach to freedom, namely the Frankfurtian ...
  • Mutlu, Erol. (Thesis (Ph.D.)-Bogazici University. Institute for Graduate Studies in Social Sciences, 2007., 2007.)
    Although Nietzsche employs the concept of “ideology” very rarely, his strong critique of Western culture can be read, in terms of methodology and content, as an analysis of ideology. The values, ideals, idols, illusions, ...
  • Gürle, F. Meltem. (Thesis (M.A.) - Bogazici University. Institute of Social Sciences, 1996., 1996.)
    This thesis presents an analysis of the pattern of Bildung (fonnation, development, education) in Hegel's Phenomenologie des Geistes (phenomenology of Mind/Spirit) upon a background of nineteenth century novel. Focusing ...
  • Çil, Dilek Arlı. (Thesis (M.A.)-Bogazici University. Institute for Graduate Studies in Social Sciences, 2009., 2009.)
    This thesis aims at investigating the odd implications of the view that knowledge does not require certainty such as the utterances “I know p, but I am not certain that p”, “I know p, but it is not certain that p”, “I know ...