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  • Fragmentation of truth :|Heidegger’s confrontation with Plato 
    Kızılkaya Ünal, Ebru. (Thesis (M.A.) - Bogazici University. Institute for Graduate Studies in the Social Sciences, 2021., 2021.)
    Heidegger’s interpretation of Plato’s concept of truth falsely accuses Plato of incarcerating truth in proposition and losing the experience of truth as un-concealment. Plato didn’t give priority to truth as correctness ...
  • 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 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 ...
  • Ineffability and interpretation in Wittgenstein’s philosophy of art 
    Kılıç, Kadir. (Thesis (M.A.) - Bogazici University. Institute for Graduate Studies in the Social Sciences, 2021., 2021.)
    In contemporary philosophy, there is tension between ineffabilist and interpretivist theories of art. The ineffabilist claims that the discontinuity between art and non artistic practices implies the impossibility of ...
  • 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 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 ...
  • Love, reason and transcendence : ‘Ineffable’ love and the limits of sense 
    Kurtar, Buse. (Thesis (M.A.) - Bogazici University. Institute for Graduate Studies in Social Sciences, 2022., 2022)
    Love is one of the greatest phenomena if not the greatest. Thus, in my MA thesis, I am investigating the concept of Love in its connections to transcendence, to the divine in contrast to the limits of “sense” both as the ...
  • Meno’s paradox and the possibility of inquiry 
    Panahee, Mohammad Raziq. (Thesis (M.A.) - Bogazici University. Institute for Graduate Studies in Social Sciences, 2022., 2022)
    Plato in his Meno puts forward a challenge against the possibility of inquiry. This challenge has two stages, at one, Meno’s questions challenge the possibility of inquiry in the case of how different kinds of knowledge ...
  • Restorative justice :|in pursuit of social justice 
    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 ...
  • Scientism and democracy within science 
    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 ...
  • Experience in autism spectrum disorder as evidence for the relationship between simulation theory and empathy 
    Ramadan, Hashem. (Thesis (M.A.) - Bogazici University. Institute for Graduate Studies in the Social Sciences, 2022., 2022.)
    Much of the discussion around theory of mind (ToM) puts autism spectrum disorder (ASD) in the spotlight because of its many symptoms affecting social cognition and interaction. More specifically, simulation theory in ...
  • 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) ...
  • 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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