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  • 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 ...
  • The human soul, free will and determinism under capitalism through Cronenberg’s films 
    Yamalıoğlu, Beste. (Thesis (M.A.) - Bogazici University. Institute for Graduate Studies in the Social Sciences, 2015., 2015.)
    In this thesis, I will explore the effects of capitalism on human nature, in particular on whether we have free will or not, as portrayed in David Cronenberg films. In the first half I will make an introduction to determinism ...
  • 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 ...
  • The manifestation of freedom as a 'productive politics'” 
    Sarı, Yasemin. (Thesis (M.A.)-Bogazici University. Institute for Graduate Studies in Social Sciences, 2009., 2009.)
    This thesis aims to provide an insight to the concept of freedom through an integration of Marx's and Arendt's systems. The investigation will begin with Arendt's distinction between the concepts of labor and work in order ...
  • The ontological foundations of McTaggart's argument on the unreality of time 
    Kovanlıkaya, Aliye. (Thesis (M.A.)- Bogazici University. Institute for Graduate Studies in Social Sciences, 1994., 1994.)
    In this thesis, it is attempted to investigate the ontological foundations of McTaggart's argument on the unreality of time which is generally considered independently from McTaggart's ontology. It is also aimed to show ...
  • 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 ...

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