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  • A comparison of Aristotelian and Cartesian highest human goods 
    Safalı, Levent. (Thesis (M.A.)-Bogazici University. Institute for Graduate Studies in Social Sciences, 2004., 2004.)
    The present thesis is an attempt to analyze and compare two philosophers' accounts of the highest human good: Aristotle's and Descartes'. My main goal has been, after understanding the conceptual frameworks necessary to ...
  • A critical approach to Kant's conception of experience in view of Leibniz's ontology 
    Kovanlıkaya, Aliye. (Thesis (Ph.D.) - Bogazici University. Institute of Social Sciences, 2002., 2002.)
    In order for Kant's criticism of metaphysics which he calls 'speculative' to be valid and in order for his attempt to establish metaphysics as a science to be successful, experience which, in critical thought, determines ...
  • A critical assessment of Hume’s and al-Ghazālī’s views on critique of causation 
    Karandish, Zehra. (Thesis (M.A.) - Bogazici University. Institute for Graduate Studies in the Social Sciences, 2018., 2018.)
    This thesis shows the similarities and differences between the views of al-Ghazālī and David Hume on causation. Such a comparison is interesting because, long before Hume, the Islamic philosopher al-Ghazālī had taken up ...
  • A critical examination of the philosophical defense of free logics 
    Altan, Emre. (Thesis (M.A.) - Bogazici University. Institute for Graduate Studies in Social Sciences, 2014., 2014.)
    In classical quantification theory, each singular term available in the formal language must denote some member of the quantificational domain. In this sense, standard systems of predicate logic do not allow for non-denoting ...
  • A critique of Hintikka’s reconstruction of Kantian intuition in logical and mathematical reasoning 
    Arslan, Aran. (Thesis (M.A.) - Bogazici University. Institute for Graduate Studies in the Social Sciences, 2019., 2019.)
    This thesis is a critique of Jaakko Hintikka’s reconstruction of Kantian intuition in logical and mathematical reasoning. I argue that Hintikka’s reconstruction of Kantian intuition in particular and his reconstruction ...
  • A critique of Kantian morality from virtue ethics perspective 
    Tilev, Seniye. (Thesis (M.A.) - Bogazici University. Institute for Graduate Studies in Social Sciences, 2014., 2014.)
    In this thesis my aim is to provide an analysis of Kantian Morality from virtue ethics perspective. Kantian morality is commonly misinterpreted, and regarded in an over-simplified and caricaturized manner. As a result of ...
  • A debate on the constitution of subject in feminist theory and politics 
    Baykal, Tuğba. (Thesis (M.A.) - Bogazici University. Institute for Graduate Studies in the Social Sciences, 2019., 2019.)
    The category of the “subject” in feminist theory and politics has been a heated debate since the beginning of the feminist movement. Considering “woman” as a theoretical subject and women as material beings in the world, ...
  • A Heideggerian conception of knowledge 
    Çömez, Çağlar. (Thesis (M.A.) - Bogazici University. Institute for Graduate Studies in Social Sciences, 2014., 2014.)
    This thesis is an attempt to develop a conception of knowledge on the basis of the first division of Martin Heidegger’s Being and Time. The first chapter is a brief introduction. In the second chapter, I analyze a series ...
  • A humean reading of Nietzsche: problem of "Is vs. Ought" 
    Demirel, Ertürk. (Thesis (M.A.)-Bogazici University. Institute for Graduate Studies in the Social Sciences, 2008., 2008.)
    The aim of this study is to derive a Nietzschean solution to the inferential gap between the factual premises and the moral conclusion in a moral argument. I argue that the problem is not to be solved on the formal level. ...
  • 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 ...