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  • Radical constructivism in science education 
    Muğaloğlu, Ebru Zeynep Aktürk. (Thesis (M.A.)- Bogazici University. Institute of Social Sciences, 2001., 2001.)
    Radical constructivism is a popular version of constructivism. It is introduced as an unconventional approach to knowing and learning by its leading representative Ernest von Glasersfeld. In my thesis, first, I present von ...
  • Reconciling comprehensive liberalism and islam 
    Tracy, Sean Michael. (Thesis (M.A.) - Bogazici University. Institute for Graduate Studies in the Social Sciences, 2015., 2015.)
    I intend in this paper to determine the extent to which particular fundamental principles of Islam are compatible with some form of comprehensive liberalism based upon the primary value of individual autonomy as described ...
  • Redefining expectations in belief revision theories 
    Korkmaz, Oğuz. (Thesis (M.A.) - Bogazici University. Institute for Graduate Studies in the Social Sciences, 2016., 2016.)
    In his 2001 book Change, Choice and Inference, Hans Rott offers a theory of belief change that utilizes a version of belief base revision. An outstanding feature of Rott’s theory is that it places emphasis on the concept ...
  • Reference to the future 
    Natalina, Elena. (Thesis (M.A.)-Bogazici University. Institute for Graduate Studies in Social Sciences, 2004., 2004.)
    The thesis investigates the issue of speaker's and semantic reference to future objects. The conditions for each type of reference are developed by using some aspects of the descriptivist and causal theories of reference, ...
  • Restorative justice :|in pursuit of social justice 
    Arıcan, Erhan Efe. (Thesis (M.A.) - Bogazici University. Institute for Graduate Studies in the Social Sciences, 2022., 2022.)
    In 2020, there were 1.8 million incarcerated people in the United States. This means that the United States has the highest prisoner rate in the world. This is a civil rights issue. Wicked individuals with ill intentions ...
  • Rule consequentialist perspectives on suicide 
    Nayır, Beşir Özgül. (Thesis (M.A.) - Bogazici University. Institute for Graduate Studies in the Social Sciences, 2018., 2018.)
    Suicide has always been a philosophically interesting topic since the ancient times. It is questioned within different branches of philosophy, and moral philosophy is one of them. The moral question of suicide concerns ...
  • Scientism and democracy within science 
    Gül, Ahmet. (Thesis (M.A.) - Bogazici University. Institute for Graduate Studies in Social Sciences, 2022., 2022.)
    In this thesis I examine understanding, a cognitive phenomenon which for many philosophers has a distinct epistemic standing than that of knowledge. Understanding, it is assumed, requires some cognitive abilities that ...
  • Semantics of empty names: could Vulcan have existed? 
    Buhara, Berrak. (Thesis (M.A.)-Bogazici University. Institute for Graduate Studies in Social Sciences, 2009., 2009.)
    Speaking of things that do not exist constitutes a significant part of our conversations. It happens when we talk about such things as the tenth planet, Phlogiston, the Loch Ness Monster or the Yeti. When speaking of what ...
  • 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 ...
  • Socio-political conditions of desire’s freedom in Spinoza and Hegel 
    Çelik, Olcay. (Thesis (M.A.) - Bogazici University. Institute for Graduate Studies in Social Sciences, 2014., 2014.)
    In Spinoza and Hegel desire is defined as the very essence of everything and their philosophies provide us a perspective through which we can understand that the movements of our thoughts and bodies are taken actually ...
  • Sources of repression, aggression and liberation in Erich Fromm and Herbert Marcuse 
    Aksoy Ozansü, Esen. (Thesis (M.A.) - Bogazici University. Institute for Graduate Studies in the Social Sciences, 2017., 2017.)
    Why humans are the only species that kills systematically? What are the sources of aggression? What are the unconscious mechanisms through which repression of instincts leads to an increase in aggression? How do social ...
  • 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 ...
  • Surpassing wantonness by appealing to emotions :|a Neo-Frankfurtian approach to freedom of the will 
    Boylu, Ayça. (Thesis (M.A.)-Bogazici University. Institute for Graduate Studies in Social Sciences, 2004., 2004.)
    In this thesis, I question whether certain kinds of emotions are necessary for one's realization of freedom. In searching an answer to this question, I focus on a specific approach to freedom, namely the Frankfurtian ...
  • The concept of bildung Hegel's phenomenology and nineteenth century European novel 
    Gürle, F. Meltem. (Thesis (M.A.) - Bogazici University. Institute of Social Sciences, 1996., 1996.)
    This thesis presents an analysis of the pattern of Bildung (fonnation, development, education) in Hegel's Phenomenologie des Geistes (phenomenology of Mind/Spirit) upon a background of nineteenth century novel. Focusing ...
  • The concept of certainty and implications of the view that knowledge does not require certainty 
    Çil, Dilek Arlı. (Thesis (M.A.)-Bogazici University. Institute for Graduate Studies in Social Sciences, 2009., 2009.)
    This thesis aims at investigating the odd implications of the view that knowledge does not require certainty such as the utterances “I know p, but I am not certain that p”, “I know p, but it is not certain that p”, “I know ...
  • The critical assessment of the direct referentialist solutions to the semantic problems of empty names 
    Polat, Mustafa. (Thesis (M.A.) - Bogazici University. Institute for Graduate Studies in the Social Sciences, 2013., 2013.)
    Direct Referentialist account of proper names fundamentally contends that the sole semantic meaning of a proper name is its referent if and only if it has any. By the principle of semantic compositionality, it entails the ...
  • The democracy paradox, and some of its moral and legal implications 
    Şenol, Hüseyin Fırat. (Thesis (M.A.) - Bogazici University. Institute of Social Science, 2002., 2002.)
    The thesis focuses on showing that it is not a paradox of democratic governments to use sanctions on individuals whose actions are conducive to increasing rebellion and uncivilised behaviour in the society, and on those ...
  • The Disclosure of petrified unrest: The Gezi protests from the perspective of Jean-Luc Nancy and Walter Benjamin 
    Kelekçi, Özge. (Thesis (M.A.) - Bogazici University. Institute for Graduate Studies in the Social Sciences, 2015., 2015.)
    Just before and deep down in the Second World War, Walter Benjamin pronounces that progress idea is a conglomeration of catastrophes which always already left traces of who had died, who had been defeated whereas in the ...
  • The emergence of inostensible reference 
    Doğru, Gökhan. (Thesis (M.A.) - Bogazici University. Institute for Graduate Studies in the Social Sciences, 2015., 2015.)
    This thesis is a struggle to combine the developments in modern linguistics and philosophy of language by focusing on the emergence of inostensible reference. Inostensible reference is a linguistic tool that allows ...
  • The functional ground of the organization of the living body in Aristotle 
    Atalay, Gizem. (Thesis (M.A.) - Bogazici University. Institute for Graduate Studies in Social Sciences, 2013., 2013.)
    The living body is a complex structure consisting of multiple parts, and its structural arrangement shows variations from one species of living beings to another. Yet, despite the differences in their structures, the parts ...

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