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Browsing M.A. Theses by Author "Soyhun, Karanfil."

Browsing M.A. Theses by Author "Soyhun, Karanfil."

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  • An ethical criticism of industrial animal farms 
    Aracı, Seçil. (Thesis (M.A.)-Bogazici University. Institute for Graduate Studies in the Social Sciences, 2010., 2010.)
    This thesis argues that it is impossible to defend the practices of industrial animal farms ethically depending on the principle of “do no harm”. “Do no harm” principle is accepted by many ethical theories and introduces ...
  • Bones and justice: ethical dimensions of the use of skeletal age diagnosis for forensic purposes 
    Altınay, Rüstem Ertuğ. (Thesis (M.A.)-Bogazici University. Institute for Graduate Studies in Social Sciences, 2009., 2009.)
    Forensic bioethics is a branch of bioethics that has traditionally enjoyed little interest. The aim of this thesis is to focus on skeletal age diagnosis, a popular forensic procedure in Turkey, to explore the ethical ...
  • Egg donation: where should market stand? 
    Sürmen, Banu Berna. (Thesis (M.A.)-Bogazici University. Institute for Graduate Studies in the Social Sciences, 2010., 2010.)
    Over the last twenty years, the demands of market have captured the reproductive medicine. As levels of infertility among women have been rising immensely, there is also an increased demand for eggs. This demand has lead ...
  • 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 ...
  • 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 representation of empty names in modal logic 
    Aşkın, Enver Deniz. (Thesis (M.A.) - Bogazici University. Institute for Graduate Studies in the Social Sciences, 2016., 2016.)
    In the course of this thesis, I will argue that empty proper names, both fictional and non-fictional, always have assumed fixed referents whose existence is assumed as a second-order property; and that the truth-value of ...
  • The sorites argument against descriptivism 
    Sezgin, Anıl Seçkin. (Thesis (M.A.) - Bogazici University. Institute for Graduate Studies in the Social Sciences, 2021., 2021.)
    In the theory of reference, descriptivism about proper names is a family of closely related theories which broadly hold that a proper name refers to an object by virtue of being associated, in the idiolect of a speaker, ...
  • Voluntary active euthanasia: justifications and regulations 
    Canca, Cansu. (Thesis (M.A.)-Bogazici University. Institute for Graduate Studies in Social Sciences, 2007., 2007.)
    Voluntary active euthanasia is the most controversial category of euthanasia, which itself causes a great amount of discussions. This thesis defends the position that voluntary active euthanasia should be considered morally ...

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