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  • 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 ...
  • 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 ...
  • Freedom and reconciliation in Hegel‟s philosophy of right 
    Karakaya, Elif. (Thesis (M.A.) - Bogazici University. Institute for Graduate Studies in the Social Sciences, 2016., 2016.)
    In this thesis, my aim is to examine Hegel‟s notion of reconciliation in relation to the concept of freedom. In Outlines of the Philosophy of Right, Hegel claims that modern state has a rational core which makes it possible ...
  • From semantic relativism to reality relativism 
    Toy, Tolgahan. (Thesis (M.A.) - Bogazici University. Institute for Graduate Studies in Social Sciences, 2014., 2014.)
    This thesis is a defense of the view that reality is relative. First I start with semantic relativism, then, I show that semantic relativism implies reality relativism. To argue for semantic relativism, motivated by arguments ...
  • Fundamental quantification and the ontology room 
    Kazaklı, Doğan Can. (Thesis (M.A.) - Bogazici University. Institute for Graduate Studies in the Social Sciences, 2015., 2015.)
    If ontologists use quantifiers in different meanings, does it lead to a merely verbal disagreement or does their disagreement concern something substantive about how the world is? According to Theodore Sider, the disagreement ...
  • Hegel's concept of concept and Its relationship to Kant's negative magnitudes and Marx's concept of capital in his capital 
    Kuyumcuoğlu, Hüseyin Sungur. (2014.)
    The relationship between Marx's works on political economy and Hegel's philosophy has been the subject matter of numerous discussions and inquiries. Many of those inquiries take an issue with the relationship between Marx's ...
  • Heidegger on Kant: temporality and imagination 
    Mavituna, Cansen. (Thesis (M.A.) - Bogazici University. Institute for Graduate Studies in Social Sciences, 2014., 2014.)
    The subject matter of this thesis is Heidegger’s reading of Kant with temporality as the central concern. Heidegger interprets Kant’s project in Critique of Pure Reason as an ontological inquiry and appreciates Kant for ...
  • Heidegger's contribution to the ontological analysis of the world and the self 
    Akman, Ela. (Thesis (M.A.) - Bogazici University. Institute of Social Sciences, 1995., 1995.)
    The subject matter of this thesis is the Heideggerian understanding of the Self which results from a radical conception of man as Dasein. Heidegger by rejecting a dualistic conception of reality which divides it into two ...
  • Hilbert's finitism and its limits 
    Ön, Emek. (Thesis (M.A.)-Bogazici University. Institute for Graduate Studies in the Social Sciences, 2010., 2010.)
    The use of the concept of infinite and of nonconstructive methods in mathematics needs justification. For this reason, we need to prove that these methods do not lead to inconsistencies. In order to achieve that, we formalize ...
  • 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 ...
  • Hobbes and Machiavelli; a comparison in their methods and philosophy 
    Glazer, Mark. (Thesis (B.A.) - Robert College, 1958., 1958.)
  • 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 ...
  • Humans on the thresholds of history :|Protagoras, Pico della Mirandola, and Herder 
    Küçük, Eyüp Engin. (Thesis (M.A.) - Bogazici University. Institute for Graduate Studies in the Social Sciences, 2020., 2020.)
    This thesis presents the transformation of the ideas on the nature of human beings throughout three fundamental thresholds of the history of philosophy by examining the three representative philosophers from these thresholds. ...
  • Identity, quantification and sortals 
    Alibaş, Adil. (Thesis (Ph.D.)-Bogazici University. Institute for Graduate Studies in the Social Sciences, 2019., 2019.)
    The topic of this thesis is the exploration of the relations between first-order quantification and identity and between identity conditions and sortals. In the first chapter, I will formulate a version of the thesis ...
  • Ignorance, blindness, and how to tell them apart 
    Özbak, Uğur. (Thesis (M.A.) - Bogazici University. Institute for Graduate Studies in the Social Sciences, 2021., 2021.)
    In this thesis I examine, explicate, and defend an epistemology of perception which does justice both to the sentient and to the sapient aspects of human perceptual knowledge. Following Kant and Dretske, I distinguish ...
  • 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 ...
  • 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 ...
  • 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 ...
  • Interest-relative determination of reference for the so-called natural kind terms 
    Geçmen, Kerem. (Thesis (M.A.) - Bogazici University. Institute for Graduate Studies in Social Sciences, 2014., 2014.)
    The aim of the present study is to show the important role human interests/concerns play in the determination of reference for kind terms such as gold, water, tiger etc. which are commonly discussed in the literature as ...
  • Is language a prerequisite for belief? An alternative approach to false-belief understanding and meta-representation 
    Sertalp, Ayşe Büşra. (Thesis (M.A.) - Bogazici University. Institute for Graduate Studies in the Social Sciences, 2015., 2015.)
    Positioning belief within the discussion of philosophy of mind is one of the major issues in this thesis. I find most of the theories developed in this area to be somewhat process-blind and one-sided, such as the ones I ...

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