M.A. Theses: Recent submissions

  • 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 ...
  • 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 ...
  • 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 ...
  • 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 ...
  • Fundamental quantification and the ontology room 
    Kazaklı, Doğan Can. (Thesis (M.A.) - Bogazici University. Institute for Graduate Studies in the Social Sciences, 2015., 2015.)
    If ontologists use quantifiers in different meanings, does it lead to a merely verbal disagreement or does their disagreement concern something substantive about how the world is? According to Theodore Sider, the disagreement ...
  • A philosophical interpretation of the unconscious in light of Wilfrid Sellars’ reasons – causes dichotomy 
    Kuyumcuoğlu Tütüncüoğlu, Nezihe Müge. (Thesis (M.A.) - Bogazici University. Institute for Graduate Studies in the Social Sciences, 2015., 2015.)
    Wilfrid Sellars’ contribution to the nature versus intellect problem is to challenge the idea that knowledge involves a causal relation between nature and intellect. He transformed the distinction by showing that ontological ...
  • Drawing the mark of the normative 
    Jernberg, Matthew. (Thesis (M.A.) - Bogazici University. Institute for Graduate Studies in the Social Sciences, 2015., 2015.)
    What is normativity? What is the mark of the normative? What distinguishes normative from descriptive properties, facts and propositions? A good start at answering these questions is to provide necessary and sufficient ...
  • Conceptual and factual relativity and realism: a theory of absolutism regarding microphysical facts and concepts 
    Adaklı, Nazım. (Thesis (M.A.) - Bogazici University. Institute for Graduate Studies in the Social Sciences, 2015., 2015.)
    Conceptual relativity emerges from Hilary Putnam’s argument referred to as “Carnap and the Polish Logician” and Ernest Sosa’s argument referred to as “the Explosion of Reality”. It is a genuine phenomenon despite Donald ...
  • 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 ...
  • 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 ...
  • A moderate defense of cognitive phenomenology 
    Arıkan, Hakkı Kaan. (Thesis (M.A.) - Bogazici University. Institute for Graduate Studies in Social Sciences, 2014., 2014.)
    Is there a specific phenomenology of thinking? Cognitive phenomenology debate goes about possible answers for this question. According to a liberal conception of phenomenal consciousness, thinking has a sui generis ...
  • 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 ...
  • A critique of Kantian morality from virtue ethics perspective 
    Tilev, Seniye. (Thesis (M.A.) - Bogazici University. Institute for Graduate Studies in Social Sciences, 2014., 2014.)
    In this thesis my aim is to provide an analysis of Kantian Morality from virtue ethics perspective. Kantian morality is commonly misinterpreted, and regarded in an over-simplified and caricaturized manner. As a result of ...
  • Precursory comprehension of being and problem of time in Heidegger's ontology 
    Meriç, Tendü. (Thesis (M.A.) - Bogazici University. Institute of Social Sciences, 1996., 1996.)
    The subject matter of this thesis is precursory comprehension of Being which is the point of departure of Heidegger's question of Being. Heidegger brings out a new conception of time as the possibility of this comprehension. ...
  • A critical examination of the philosophical defense of free logics 
    Altan, Emre. (Thesis (M.A.) - Bogazici University. Institute for Graduate Studies in Social Sciences, 2014., 2014.)
    In classical quantification theory, each singular term available in the formal language must denote some member of the quantificational domain. In this sense, standard systems of predicate logic do not allow for non-denoting ...
  • A strong value-neutral theory of autonomy 
    Güreli, Ozan. (Thesis (M.A.) - Bogazici University. Institute for Graduate Studies in Social Sciences, 2014., 2014.)
    Manipulation and oppressive socialization are among the most senous issues of the contemporary debates on autonomy. Procedual theories of autonomy focus on the way our beliefs are formed and don't rule out or necessitate ...
  • From semantic relativism to reality relativism 
    Toy, Tolgahan. (Thesis (M.A.) - Bogazici University. Institute for Graduate Studies in Social Sciences, 2014., 2014.)
    This thesis is a defense of the view that reality is relative. First I start with semantic relativism, then, I show that semantic relativism implies reality relativism. To argue for semantic relativism, motivated by arguments ...
  • Hegel's concept of concept and Its relationship to Kant's negative magnitudes and Marx's concept of capital in his capital 
    Kuyumcuoğlu, Hüseyin Sungur. (2014.)
    The relationship between Marx's works on political economy and Hegel's philosophy has been the subject matter of numerous discussions and inquiries. Many of those inquiries take an issue with the relationship between Marx's ...
  • A Heideggerian conception of knowledge 
    Çömez, Çağlar. (Thesis (M.A.) - Bogazici University. Institute for Graduate Studies in Social Sciences, 2014., 2014.)
    This thesis is an attempt to develop a conception of knowledge on the basis of the first division of Martin Heidegger’s Being and Time. The first chapter is a brief introduction. In the second chapter, I analyze a series ...
  • 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 ...

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