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  • 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 ...
  • An analtysis of educational themes Hegel’s Philosophical Outlines of Justice 
    Güngör, Pınar. (Thesis (M.A.) - Bogazici University. Institute for Graduate Studies in the Social Sciences, 2016., 2016.)
    This thesis aims to show that Hegel’s Philosophical Outlines of Justice implicitly presents the structure, principles and key aspects of a systematic philosophy of education. The main argument will be based on the idea ...
  • 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 ...
  • An introduction to the ontological foundations of Gödel's incompleteness theorems 
    Çitil, Ahmet Ayhan. (Thesis (M.A.) - Bogazici University. Institute of Social Sciences, 1994., 1994.)
    In the present thesis, we carry out an ontological investigation of Goders incompleteness theorems in view of which we obtain an interpretation of Godel's incompleteness results. In our ontological investigation, we determine ...
  • 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) ...
  • Aristotle's notion of physis and its implications for his thics 
    Akarsu, Cansu. (Thesis (M.A.) - Bogazici University. Institute for Graduate Studies in the Social Sciences, 2016., 2016.)
    This thesis aims to analyze Aristotle's conception of eudaimonia, human well-being, with a view to his understanding of physis, nature. It focuses on the effects of Aristotle's teleological understanding of nature on his ...
  • Aristotle’s De Anima II.5 in the light of the Literalism–Spiritualism debate 
    Çetinkaya, Ekrem. (Thesis (M.A.) - Bogazici University. Institute for Graduate Studies in the Social Sciences, 2016., 2016.)
    This thesis aims to offer a detailed and critical reading of a section of De Anima, namely of DA II.5, which appears to occupy a central place in a modern debate between literalist and spiritualist interpreters of Aristotle’s ...
  • 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 ...
  • 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 ...
  • Builders at opposite poles, or pioneers of different quests? contrasting heidegger and sellars 
    Sanlı, Alptekin. (Thesis (M.A.)-Bogazici University. Institute for Graduate Studies in the Social Sciences, 2007., 2007.)
    The present thesis concerns the status of the conceptual in our experience of the world. The trajectory of my argument runs as follows: (1) Responding to a recent debate between professors Hubert L. Dreyfus and John McDowell, ...
  • Carnap's conventionalism 
    Sungur, Uluğ R. (Thesis (M.A.)-Bogazici University. Institute for Graduate Studies in Social Sciences, 2006., 2006.)
    In this thesis Carnap's conventionalism is analysed. Carnap's distinction between internal questions of existence and external questions of existence, is the departure point of the analysis. However, it is claimed that we ...
  • Challenging Isaiah Berlin's distinction between negative and positive freedom 
    Doğruöz, Hakan Şükrü. (Thesis (M.A.)-Bogazici University. Institute for Graduate Studies in Social Sciences, 2004., 2004.)
    Isaiah Berlin is one of the key figures who has dominated the field of social freedom with his distinction between negative and positive conceptions of freedom. In this dissertation, I have argued that analyzing freedom ...
  • Conceptual and factual relativity and realism: a theory of absolutism regarding microphysical facts and concepts 
    Adaklı, Nazım. (Thesis (M.A.) - Bogazici University. Institute for Graduate Studies in the Social Sciences, 2015., 2015.)
    Conceptual relativity emerges from Hilary Putnam’s argument referred to as “Carnap and the Polish Logician” and Ernest Sosa’s argument referred to as “the Explosion of Reality”. It is a genuine phenomenon despite Donald ...
  • Constitutive a priori 
    Erdur, Melis. (Thesis (M.A.)-Bogazici University. Institute for Graduate Studies in Social Sciences, 2004., 2004.)
    Recently there has been a renewed interest in the issue of a priority. Many philosophers have proposed accounts that attempt to establish the existence of a priori propositions while avoiding the difficulties of the former ...
  • 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 ...
  • Curiosity as an intellectual and ethical virtue 
    Yiğit, Safiye. (Thesis (M.A.) - Bogazici University. Institute for Graduate Studies in Social Sciences, 2011., 2011.)
    In this study, I claim that curiosity is an ethical and intellectual virtue that is necessary for any well-lived life. I distinguish curiosity from other types of desiring to know that could emerge from pragmatic reasons, ...
  • Defining the concept of mechanism on computationality 
    Şener, Deniz İlyas. (Thesis (M.A.)-Bogazici University. Institute for Graduate Studies in the Social Sciences, 2019., 2019.)
    The new mechanism trend in the twenty-first century philosophy of science, which deals with the special sciences in providing scientific explanations, depends centrally on the concept of mechanism, yet the lack of a ...
  • Desire for excellence reflections on Plato and Spinoza 
    Mutlu, Vicdan. (Thesis (M.A.)-Bogazici University. Institute for Graduate Studies in Social Sciences, 2004., 2004.)
    The main aim of this thesis is to provide a good understanding of Plato's and Spinoza's desire for excellence and show in what respects their views resemble and differ from each other. To achieve this aim, their notions ...
  • Digital artifacts as abstract objects :|an ontological comparison to musical works 
    Aktaş, Duygu. (Thesis (M.A.) - Bogazici University. Institute for Graduate Studies in the Social Sciences, 2019., 2019.)
    Digital objects such as computer programs, web-based programs, social media accounts etc. appear to change enormously. One position is that such changes are only results of some linguistic conventions rather than true ...
  • Do incomplete definite descriptions refute Russell’s theory of descriptions? 
    Ataman, Işık Pelin. (Thesis (M.A.) - Bogazici University. Institute for Graduate Studies in Social Sciences, 2011., 2011.)
    The aim of this study is to formulate a Russellian solution to the problem of incomplete definite descriptions, and thereby defend Russell’s Theory of Descriptions. To this end, I argue that the proper way to approach the ...

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