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  • 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 ...
  • Modeling belief revision via belief bases using situation semantics 
    Bozdağ, Ayşe Sena. (Thesis (M.A.) - Bogazici University. Institute for Graduate Studies in the Social Sciences, 2017., 2017.)
    The belief base approach to belief representation and belief dynamics is developed as an alternative to the belief set approaches, which are pioneered by the AGM model. The belief base approach models collections of ...
  • Models, causes and capacıtıes: A new account for laws of nature 
    Türker, Özer (Thesis (M.A.) - Bogazici University. Institute for Graduate Studies in the Social Sciences, 2018., 2018.)
    Humans have reached a consensus about the regularity of nature. However, we have not reached a consensus about what grounds that regularity yet. My thesis tries to address the question of what grounds the regularity of ...
  • Musical experience: musical process, emotion and meaning 
    Doğan, Başak. (Thesis (M.A.) - Bogazici University. Institute for Graduate Studies in the Social Sciences, 2015., 2015.)
    This thesis aims to indicate the crucial link between musical processes and the emotion and meaning we get. Every musical experience arises from the expectations, which are shaped through listening. The expectations in the ...
  • Musical paideia in Plato’s republic 
    Coşkun, İlter. (Thesis (M.A.) - Bogazici University. Institute for Graduate Studies in the Social Sciences, 2015., 2015.)
    This thesis intends to unsettle, at least to some degree, the conviction that music, poetry and fine arts in general do not have a salient status in Platonic philosophy. To this end, the conception of musical education ...
  • Nietzsche and the notion of truth 
    Çekiç Littardi, Özümcan. (Thesis (M.A.) - Bogazici University. Institute for Graduate Studies in the Social Sciences, 2018., 2018.)
    The aim of the thesis is to focus on the notion of truth as it constitutes one of the core problems in Nietzsche’s philosophy. After making some preliminary remarks on certain technical and approach-related problems, it ...
  • 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 ordinary objects 
    Dayan, Göksu. (Thesis (M.A.) - Bogazici University. Institute for Graduate Studies in the Social Sciences, 2019., 2019.)
    In this thesis, I discuss Amie Thomasson’s framework defending the existence of ordinary objects and some criticisms raised by Jonathan Schaffer and Simon Evnine and then provide two original arguments against Thomasson. ...
  • 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 ...
  • 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 ...
  • On the rigidity of general terms 
    Yavuz, Alper. (Thesis (M.A.) - Bogazici University. Institute for Graduate Studies in Social Sciences, 2012., 2012.)
    The aim of this thesis is to discuss whether general terms are rigid and if they are, how their rigidity should be interpreted. To this end, I first present the problems related to the rigidity of general terms. The most ...
  • On the significance of analyticity: a study on the controversy between Carnap and Quine 
    Korkut, Buket. (Thesis (M.A.)-Bogazici University. Institute of Social Sciences, 2003., 2003.)
    This thesis is a study on the significance of analyticity, in particular, on the controversy between Carnap and Quine regarding analyticity. The analysis follows an historical order of Carnap's two periods: syntax and ...

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