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  • Philosophy as anti-sophistic 
    Yiğit, Rezzan İlke. (Thesis (M.A.)-Bogazici University. Institute for Graduate Studies in Social Sciences, 2004., 2004.)
    The present thesis is an attempt to give a definition of philosophy by looking at the philosopher's definition of sophistry. My main goal has been to understand the conceptual framework in which sophistry and philosophy ...
  • Two approaches to poverty: a comparative study on Amartya Sen's theory of capability deprivation and the framework of socil exclusion 
    Yuncu, Latife Demet. (Thesis (M.A.)-Bogazici University. Graduate Institute of Social Sciences, 2005., 2005.)
    All through history, different concepts have been employed to explain poverty. In contemporary debates about poverty, social exclusion and capability deprivation are two influential approaches. Both approaches highlight ...
  • Strategies for feminist critique of science: an evaluation 
    Sezener, Ayşegül. (Thesis (M.A.)-Bogazici University. Graduate Institute of Social Sciences, 2005., 2005.)
    In my thesis, I have mainly argued for two claims: i) that feminist critique of science is a legitimate philosophical agenda in that its philosophical grounds are not refuted or completely discredited as its critics sometimes ...
  • Inferentialism and indeterminacy at home 
    Şişkolar, Cem. (Thesis (M.A.)-Bogazici University. Institute for Graduate Studies in Social Sciences, 2006., 2006.)
    According to W.V. Quine his thesis of the indeterminacy of radical inter-linguistic translation applies to the home language as well. This view implies that the usual homophonic understanding of our interlocutors' utterances ...
  • 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 ...
  • Liberal culturalism and the individual: an alternative account of cultural identities 
    Daşhan, Fulya Özlem. (Thesis (M.A.)-Bogazici University. Institute for Graduate Studies in Social Sciences, 2006., 2006.)
    In my thesis I aim to provide a philosophical basis to argue for a version of Pluralism which gives theoretical support for a form of Political Liberalism that is oriented towards enhancing communication among a diversity ...
  • 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, ...
  • Popper and Hayek on the principle of unintended consequences 
    Hacıhamdioğlu, Cavit. (Thesis (M.A.)-Bogazici University. Institute for Graduate Studies in Social Sciences, 2006., 2006.)
    The use of the principle of unintended consequences has an important place to legitimize or deligitimize the role of state intervention in the market. The conservative liberal, like Hayek, uses the principle of unintended ...
  • Sense perception and the self 
    Koçak, Ayşe Özge. (Thesis (M.A.)-Bogazici University. Institute for Graduate the Social Sciences, 2007., 2007.)
    This thesis aims at analyzing the content of perceptual experience with a view to understand whether non-conceptual perceptual content is possible. To do so, the definition and the function of perception are evaluated to ...
  • Origins of critique: subject, rationality and praxis in critical theory 
    Özdemir, Onur. (Thesis (M.A.)-Bogazici University. Institute for Graduate Studies in Social Sciences, 2007., 2007.)
    In this study, I aim to inquire about the origins of Critical Theory with a view to its conception of critique. The concept of critique is articulated by reference to its opposition to mere criticism, because in that ...
  • The immediate object of visual perception 
    Uluç, Işıl. (Thesis (M.A.)-Bogazici University. Institute for Graduate Studies in the Social Sciences, 2007., 2007.)
    This thesis aims to understand the nature of the visual perception by mainly focusing on the question, “What is the immediate object of visual experience?” To this aim, I will examine the theories of perception and give ...
  • The knowledge of contingent a priori truths, performatives and pragmatic inferences 
    Muhtaroğlu, Nazif. (Thesis (M.A.)-Bogazici University. Institute for Graduate Studies in the Social Sciences, 2007., 2007.)
    Saul Kripke claims that there are contingent a priori truths. His argument for this claim depends on his account of naming. By assuming his account of naming, I try to improve his argument by adding two premises expressing ...
  • 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, ...
  • Voluntary active euthanasia: justifications and regulations 
    Canca, Cansu. (Thesis (M.A.)-Bogazici University. Institute for Graduate Studies in Social Sciences, 2007., 2007.)
    Voluntary active euthanasia is the most controversial category of euthanasia, which itself causes a great amount of discussions. This thesis defends the position that voluntary active euthanasia should be considered morally ...
  • Fate and moral responsibility in stoicism 
    Yırcalı, Gökçe. (Thesis (M.A.)-Bogazici University. Institute for Graduate Studies in Social Sciences, 2007., 2007.)
    The Stoics have an intricate account of fate which is interconnected with many branches of their thought, their ontology, logic, physics, theology and ethics. It is the Stoic claim that agents could be held to be morally ...
  • Epistemic truth versus non-epistemic truth: toward a revised version of the correspondence theory of truth 
    Durmuş, Deniz. (Thesis (M.A.)-Bogazici University. Institute for Graduate Studies in Social Sciences, 2007., 2007.)
    This thesis defends the idea that truth is a non-epistemic notion that consists in some correspondence relation between our propositions and external reality. Taking into account the criticisms brought to the classical ...
  • The ontology of social relations in Marx's Capital 
    Yılankaya, Banu. (Thesis (M.A.)-Bogazici University. Institute for Graduate Studies in the Social Sciences, 2007., 2007.)
    This thesis aims to read Marx's analysis of value as suggesting an ontology of social relations. To this aim, I will first provide a preliminary account of Marx's philosophy in Capital with a view to expounding the basis ...
  • 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. ...
  • Kant’s mind and its matter 
    Bektaş, Fatoş. (Thesis (M.A.)-Bogazici University. Institute for Graduate Studies in the Social Sciences, 2008., 2008.)
    Mind and body interaction has been a problem of philosophy and science for years. It is puzzling how the mind, which is something immaterial, finds a way to express itself in the material body. The subject of experience ...
  • 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 ...

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