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  • 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 ...
  • 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, ...
  • Liberty as non-domination: a critical discussion 
    Sevinç, Tuğba. (Thesis (M.A.)-Bogazici University. Institute for Graduate Studies in the Social Sciences, 2008., 2008.)
    This thesis aims at analyzing Philip Pettit’s notion of domination with a view to examining the republican conception of political liberty as non-domination. To do so, the definition and the harms of domination are examined ...
  • 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 ...
  • Bones and justice: ethical dimensions of the use of skeletal age diagnosis for forensic purposes 
    Altınay, Rüstem Ertuğ. (Thesis (M.A.)-Bogazici University. Institute for Graduate Studies in Social Sciences, 2009., 2009.)
    Forensic bioethics is a branch of bioethics that has traditionally enjoyed little interest. The aim of this thesis is to focus on skeletal age diagnosis, a popular forensic procedure in Turkey, to explore the ethical ...
  • The concept of certainty and implications of the view that knowledge does not require certainty 
    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 ...
  • On the identity of emotions: concepts, feelings, and intentionality 
    Dolun, Botan. (Thesis (M.A.)-Bogazici University. Institute for Graduate Studies in Social Sciences, 2009., 2009.)
    Historically, the philosophy of emotion deals with the question of what emotions are and how they relate to other types of mental states. This thesis gives an answer to this question in two consecutive steps. First, we ...
  • 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 ...
  • Semantics of empty names: could Vulcan have existed? 
    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 ...
  • The manifestation of freedom as a 'productive politics'” 
    Sarı, Yasemin. (Thesis (M.A.)-Bogazici University. Institute for Graduate Studies in Social Sciences, 2009., 2009.)
    This thesis aims to provide an insight to the concept of freedom through an integration of Marx's and Arendt's systems. The investigation will begin with Arendt's distinction between the concepts of labor and work in order ...
  • In defense of ordinary objects: a study in common sense ontolog 
    Irmak, Nurbay. (Thesis (M.A.)-Bogazici University. Institute for Graduate Studies in Social Sciences, 2009., 2009.)
    In this thesis I defend a common sense view regarding the ontological status of ordinary objects. It is a defense against philosophers who have believed and argued for the idea that the manifest objects of everyday human ...
  • 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 ...
  • How to provide a consistent account of akrasia 
    Geyik, Sefa. (Thesis (M.A.)-Bogazici University. Institute for Graduate Studies in the Social Sciences, 2009., 2009.)
    The aim of this thesis is to provide o consistent solution for the philosophical problem of akrasia. Akrasia, a Greek word, is translated into English as “lacking command over oneself” or “weakness of will”. The question ...
  • On Davidson’s idea of a conceptual scheme 
    Maşa, Bahadır. (Thesis (M.A.)-Bogazici University. Institute for Graduate Studies in Social Sciences, 2009., 2009.)
    In his article titled “On the Very Idea of a Conceptual Scheme”, Donald Davidson argues that the duality of uninterpreted content and conceptual scheme is the “third” dogma of empiricism. According to Davidson, the idea ...
  • On the possibility of nonconceptual experience: the case of music experience 
    Ar, Özge. (Thesis (M.A.)-Bogazici University. Institute for Graduate Studies in Social Sciences, 2009., 2009.)
    The present thesis concerns the possibility of nonconceptual concent from a representationalist framework. It briefly reviews the literature on nonconceptual content. It takes conceptuality and nonconceptuality as features ...
  • Contemporary debates on the ethical basis of Marx's social theory 
    Savaş, Zeynep. (Thesis (M.A.)-Bogazici University. Institute for Graduate Studies in Social Sciences, 2009., 2009.)
    The central aim of this thesis is to present contemporary debates on the relation of Marx's social theory and morality. In the introduction part, two major parties involved in the controversy are exposed. Allen Wood is ...
  • 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 ...
  • Marx’s economic law of motion 
    Korkmaz, İbrahim. (Thesis (M.A.)-Bogazici University. Institute for Graduate Studies in Social Sciences, 2010., 2010.)
    As the economist Stephen Cullenberg pointed out, for Marx, the law of falling rate of profit is the most important law of political economy. The central theses of this study are [a] that Marx’s law of falling rate of profit ...
  • Historical perspective in the sciences 
    Karagözoğlu, Senem. (Thesis (M.A.)-Bogazici University. Institute for Graduate Studies in the Social Sciences, 2010., 2010.)
    The present thesis aims to demonstrate that the distinction between historical and scientific disciplines is indefensible, because a historical perspective is necessary for a scientific understanding of the universe. To ...
  • Plato's Socrates : dialectical method as techne 
    Yılmaz, Şirin. (Thesis (M.A.)-Bogazici University. Institute for Graduate Studies in the Social Sciences, 2010., 2010.)
    This thesis aims to investigate how Plato in his dialogues through the Socratic character treats the method of dialectic as being some kind of techné. On the grounds of Plato’s dialogues, the inquiry begins by enumerating ...

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