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  • 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 ...
  • Is later Wittgenstein a relativist?: an investigation on / through forms of life 
    Turan, Caner. (Thesis (M.A.) - Bogazici University. Institute for Graduate Studies in Social Sciences, 2011., 2011.)
    There are two main interconnected concerns of this thesis. One is to make an investigation on “forms of life” which is one of the most important notions in philosophical framework of later Wittgenstein. When Wittgenstein ...
  • Justifying oneself as a foundation of morality 
    Çimendereli, Yener Çağla. (Thesis (M.A.) - Bogazici University. Institute for Graduate Studies in the Social Sciences, 2015., 2015.)
    In this thesis, I aim to expose a common pattern in Meta-ethics. It consists in comparing ethics and science in order to understand the nature of ethics. I believe that this pattern makes more harm than good, and should ...
  • Kantian empirical cognition and singular concepts 
    Özdağ, Cenk. (Thesis (M.A.) - Bogazici University. Institute for Graduate Studies in the Social Sciences, 2013., 2013.)
    The subject-matter of this thesis is the distinction between empirical intuitions and empirical concepts in terms of two criteria, namely the singularity criterion and the immediacy criterion. The goal of the thesis on ...
  • 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 ...
  • 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 ...
  • 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 ...
  • Logicism and Gödel’s incompleteness theorems 
    Polat, Berk. (Thesis (M.A.) - Bogazici University. Institute for Graduate Studies in the Social Sciences, 2016., 2016.)
    The view of logicism which dates back to eighteenth century when Leibniz thought that mathematical statements are nothing more than identity statements is the view that mathematics is reducible to logic. This idea brings ...
  • Love, reason and transcendence : ‘Ineffable’ love and the limits of sense 
    Kurtar, Buse. (Thesis (M.A.) - Bogazici University. Institute for Graduate Studies in Social Sciences, 2022., 2022)
    Love is one of the greatest phenomena if not the greatest. Thus, in my MA thesis, I am investigating the concept of Love in its connections to transcendence, to the divine in contrast to the limits of “sense” both as the ...
  • 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 ...
  • Mary’s epistemic gain in the knowledge argument 
    Özdemir, Eyyüphan. (Thesis (M.A.) - Bogazici University. Institute for Graduate Studies in the Social Sciences, 2016., 2016.)
    Frank Jackson’s Knowledge Argument claims that a person who knows everything physical about color vision cannot yet know what it is like to see red and this demonstrates that physicalism is false. My thesis largely aims ...
  • Meno’s paradox and the possibility of inquiry 
    Panahee, Mohammad Raziq. (Thesis (M.A.) - Bogazici University. Institute for Graduate Studies in Social Sciences, 2022., 2022)
    Plato in his Meno puts forward a challenge against the possibility of inquiry. This challenge has two stages, at one, Meno’s questions challenge the possibility of inquiry in the case of how different kinds of knowledge ...
  • Mental causation is not counterfactual: A defense of the exclusion argument against counterfactual solutions 
    Han, Sanghun. (Thesis (M.A.) - Bogazici University. Institute for Graduate Studies in the Social Sciences, 2018., 2018.)
    The modern debate in philosophy of mind revolves around reductive and nonreductive physicalism. Especially the reducibility of the mental to the physical has been one of the central issues in the debate. The so-called ...
  • Metaphysical foundations of Freudian psychology: |a transcendental reconsideration 
    Dost, Ayfer. (Thesis (M.A.) - Bogazici University. Institute of Social Sciences, 1997., 1997.)
    In the present thesis we compare the metaphysical foundations of Kant's ontology (as it is given in Kant's First Critique) and Freud's psycho-analytic theory. This comparison involves an investigation of the understanding ...

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