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  • The place of Albert Schweitzer in contemporary philosophy and why we should concern ourselves with his ethical thought nonetheless 
    Willey, Clinton Marshall. (Thesis (M.A.)-Bogazici University. Institute for Graduate Studies in the Social Sciences, 2010., 2010.)
    As a philosopher, Albert Schweitzer is known chiefly for his notion of Reverence for Life, as well as his statement that “My life is my argument.” Yet The Philosophy of Civilization, his philosophical magnum opus, is a ...
  • The problem of 'space' in Frege's ontology a transcentental inquiry 
    Armaner, Türker. (Thesis (M.A.)- Bogazici University. Institute for Graduate Studies in Social Sciences, 1994., 1994.)
    This thesis is an attempt to evaluate Frege's ontology of numbers in a critical way in view of Kant's transcendental philosophy. Despite the significant divergences between Kant and Frege, these two philosophers will be ...
  • The problem of 'understanding' in Martin Heidegger's Being and Time 
    Alpar, F. Neren. (Thesis (M.A.) - Bogazici University. Institute of Social Sciences, 2001., 2001.)
    This thesis examines understanding as a fundamental existentiale in Heidegger's Being and Time, and its grounding position to all activities of cognizing. The ultimate goal of the thesis is to reveal the metaphysical basis ...
  • The problem of induction from a metaphysical point of view 
    Bakdur, Eser. (Thesis (M.A.) - Bogazici University. Institute for Graduate Studies in the Social Sciences, 2013., 2013.)
    The aim of this study is to examine the metaphysical solutions recently proposed for the problem of induction, which we inherited from the Scottish empiricist philosopher David Hume. The problem of induction concerns its ...
  • The problem of infinity: A pendulous swing between empiricism and metaphysics 
    Arslan, Nesibe Sena. (Thesis (M.A.) - Bogazici University. Institute for Graduate Studies in the Social Sciences, 2016., 2016.)
    This thesis is an attempt to evaluate the resolutions and further discussions about Zeno’s paradoxes of motion, which approach the matter from two different viewpoints: empirical and metaphysical. I examine the empirical ...
  • The problem of sourcehood in the libertarian accounts of John Searle and Robert Kane 
    Kıraç, Kerim Can. (Thesis (M.A.) - Bogazici University. Institute for Graduate Studies in the Social Sciences, 2019., 2019.)
    Free will is one of the most hotly debated issues in the history of philosophy, which also caused a lot of confusions in the minds of people who are arguing about it. In this thesis, I will mainly focus on the sourcehood ...
  • The question of evil in Plato 
    Oranlı, İmge. (Thesis (M.A.)-Bogazici University. Institute for Graduate Studies in the Social Sciences, 2008., 2008.)
    This thesis aims at understanding Plato’s conception of evil. For this we are trying to determine what evil is in various aspects of Platonic Philosophy. We are arguing that in all of these aspects, in ontology, cosmology, ...
  • The reconstruction of the “Genius Aesthetics” in Adorno’s philosophy 
    Özdüzen, Özge. (Thesis (M.A.)-Bogazici University. Institute for Graduate Studies in Social Sciences, 2009., 2009.)
    This study claims that the Jena Romanticist philosophy created a unique subject within the history of philosophy. The romantic subject has a certain mission which is “romanticizing the world.” This unique subject emerges ...
  • The representation of empty names in modal logic 
    Aşkın, Enver Deniz. (Thesis (M.A.) - Bogazici University. Institute for Graduate Studies in the Social Sciences, 2016., 2016.)
    In the course of this thesis, I will argue that empty proper names, both fictional and non-fictional, always have assumed fixed referents whose existence is assumed as a second-order property; and that the truth-value of ...
  • The republicanism of Philip Pettit in times of crisis 
    Güran, Enes. (Thesis (M.A.) - Bogazici University. Institute for Graduate Studies in the Social Sciences, 2019., 2019.)
    The literature on the long tradition of republicanism has burgeoned in the past few decades. Republicanism with its distinctive theoretical and historical features distinguishes itself from other familiar political ...
  • The role and significance of curiosity in philosophy for children 
    Altıparmak, İrem Günhan. (Thesis (M.A.) - Bogazici University. Institute for Graduate Studies in the Social Sciences, 2019., 2019.)
    Philosophy for Children (P4C) is an educational movement which aims to develop children’s thinking and reasoning skills by means of engaging them in intellectual inquiry and questioning. Though P4C is predominantly based ...
  • The role of artistic intentions in the interpretation of artworks 
    Kaya, Fatma. (Thesis (M.A.) - Bogazici University. Institute for Graduate Studies in the Social Sciences, 2016., 2016.)
    The aim of this thesis is to show that the meaning of an artwork is not determined by the intentions of its creator. Even though, in the normal course of affairs, when we are confronted with an utterance, our cognitive ...
  • The seeming middle ground : concessions of a realist 
    Kingston, Laura Elizabeth. (Thesis (M.A.)-Bogazici University. Institute for Graduate Studies in the Social Sciences, 2010., 2010.)
    This project scrutinizes philosophical positions that have both realistic and relativistic tendencies in order to show how the precarious relationship between truth and reality can be stabilised through an endorsement of ...
  • 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 theory of time as relations 
    Er, Memduh. (Thesis (M.A.)-Bogazici University. Institute for Graduate Studies in Social Sciences, 2006., 2006.)
    The aim of this thesis is to analyze "The Problem of Change" and to investigate a possible solution that solves the problem. To achieve this end two rival analytical approaches, namely endurance theory and perdurance theory, ...
  • The unconcealedness of the truth: a study in Heideggerian understanding of truth 
    Kılıkçıer, Ahmet Serkan. (Thesis (M.A.) - Bogazici University. Institute for Graduate Studies in Social Sciences, 2014., 2014.)
    This thesis attempts to elaborate on different accounts of truth in Heidegger’s philosophy to investigate whether Heidegger’s understanding of Being as manifestness is metaphysically constructed. After this our investigation ...
  • "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 ...
  • Therapeutic philosophy:|Advantages and limitations 
    Özer, Can. (Thesis (M.A.) - Bogazici University. Institute for Graduate Studies in the Social Sciences, 2019., 2019.)
    Wittgenstein saw philosophy as an activity of clarification and description of various language-games. Following his methodology, this thesis outlines a Wittgensteinian political philosophy that is equipped with the ...
  • Thought, critique, and novelty in Kant’s critical philosophy 
    Pusar, Güçsal. (Thesis (M.A.)-Bogazici University. Institute for Graduate Studies in Social Sciences, 2009., 2009.)
    The main concern of the thesis is to expose the specifically critical thrust of Kant’s conception of genius. The guiding thread of our investigation is Kant’s conceptualization of taste as the discipline of genius. We argue ...
  • Transcendental apperception and knowing that i am 
    Gökmen, Arzu. (Thesis (M.A.) - Bogazici University. Institute for Graduate Studies in the Social Sciences, 2015., 2015.)
    In the Critique of Pure Reason, Kant makes an enigmatical assertion that in the transcendental apperception “I am conscious of myself not as I appear to myself, nor as I am in myself, but only that I am.” This thesis is ...

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