M.A. Theses: Recent submissions

  • 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 ...
  • Identity, quantification and sortals 
    Alibaş, Adil. (Thesis (Ph.D.)-Bogazici University. Institute for Graduate Studies in the Social Sciences, 2019., 2019.)
    The topic of this thesis is the exploration of the relations between first-order quantification and identity and between identity conditions and sortals. In the first chapter, I will formulate a version of the thesis ...
  • A philosophical inquiry into Nasreddin Hodja stories 
    Tığlı, Gizem. (Thesis (M.A.) - Bogazici University. Institute for Graduate Studies in the Social Sciences, 2019., 2019.)
    Overall, this thesis is about Nasreddin Hodja’s stories. Selected stories from a trustworthy source in Anatolian Turkish are used and then translated into English with the effort of keeping the essence of the actual ...
  • 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 ...
  • A critical assessment of Hume’s and al-Ghazālī’s views on critique of causation 
    Karandish, Zehra. (Thesis (M.A.) - Bogazici University. Institute for Graduate Studies in the Social Sciences, 2018., 2018.)
    This thesis shows the similarities and differences between the views of al-Ghazālī and David Hume on causation. Such a comparison is interesting because, long before Hume, the Islamic philosopher al-Ghazālī had taken up ...
  • 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 ...
  • Understanding oppression and exploitation through disability: Intersectionality, surplus populations, and radical needs 
    Kenter, Balam Nedim. (Thesis (M.A.) - Bogazici University. Institute for Graduate Studies in the Social Sciences, 2018., 2018.)
    What is oppression? What is exploitation? What is the relationship between the two? How a theory answers such questions may determine its scope and emancipatory politics. An answer that prioritizes oppression and makes ...
  • Who are the political friends? Homonoia and political friendship in Aristotle’s political thinking 
    Hepçağlayan, Cansu. (Thesis (M.A.) - Bogazici University. Institute for Graduate Studies in the Social Sciences, 2017., 2017.)
    The notion of political friendship holds a unique institutional function in Aristotle’s political philosophy. He considers political friendship, as a specific account of friendship between citizens of the polis, as an ...
  • Abstract objects as constituents of external reality: A defense of the fregean account against Dummett’s objections 
    Karabağ, Ahmet Özcan. (Thesis (M.A.) - Bogazici University. Institute for Graduate Studies in the Social Sciences, 2017., 2017.)
    In his Foundations of Arithmetic (1980) Gottlob Frege sets out to give an account of the existence of some types of abstract objects by means of justifying ascription of reference to singular terms purporting to refer ...
  • Problems of self-knowledge and phenomenal character 
    Yoldaş, Tuğba. (Thesis (M.A.) - Bogazici University. Institute for Graduate Studies in the Social Sciences, 2017., 2017.)
    Self-knowledge regarding sincere attributions about mental states, bodily sensations, perceptions, and the phenomenal character of experiences seem direct and true. However, the questions of how we acquire such knowledge ...
  • 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 ...
  • Exact semantics for indicative conditionals 
    Güngör, Hüseyin. (Thesis (M.A.) - Bogazici University. Institute for Graduate Studies in the Social Sciences, 2017., 2017.)
    This thesis extends Kit Fine’s exact semantics and account of counterfactuals to nonhabitual, non-predictive indicative conditionals. First, I provide Fine’s exposition of exact semantics and his extension to counterfactuals. ...
  • The problem of 'understanding' in Martin Heidegger's Being and Time 
    Alpar, F. Neren. (Thesis (M.A.) - Bogazici University. Institute of Social Sciences, 2001., 2001.)
    This thesis examines understanding as a fundamental existentiale in Heidegger's Being and Time, and its grounding position to all activities of cognizing. The ultimate goal of the thesis is to reveal the metaphysical basis ...
  • 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 ...
  • 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 ...
  • Aristotle's notion of physis and its implications for his thics 
    Akarsu, Cansu. (Thesis (M.A.) - Bogazici University. Institute for Graduate Studies in the Social Sciences, 2016., 2016.)
    This thesis aims to analyze Aristotle's conception of eudaimonia, human well-being, with a view to his understanding of physis, nature. It focuses on the effects of Aristotle's teleological understanding of nature on his ...
  • Freedom and reconciliation in Hegel‟s philosophy of right 
    Karakaya, Elif. (Thesis (M.A.) - Bogazici University. Institute for Graduate Studies in the Social Sciences, 2016., 2016.)
    In this thesis, my aim is to examine Hegel‟s notion of reconciliation in relation to the concept of freedom. In Outlines of the Philosophy of Right, Hegel claims that modern state has a rational core which makes it possible ...
  • The problem of infinity: A pendulous swing between empiricism and metaphysics 
    Arslan, Nesibe Sena. (Thesis (M.A.) - Bogazici University. Institute for Graduate Studies in the Social Sciences, 2016., 2016.)
    This thesis is an attempt to evaluate the resolutions and further discussions about Zeno’s paradoxes of motion, which approach the matter from two different viewpoints: empirical and metaphysical. I examine the empirical ...
  • A quest for social justice: A critique of Hayek’s social philosophy 
    Muğurtay, Nihat. (Thesis (M.A.) - Bogazici University. Institute for Graduate Studies in the Social Sciences, 2016., 2016.)
    For Hayek, the rule of law and principles of social justice strictly exclude each other. According to laissez-faire philosophers the concept of the rule of law excludes all substantive equality, positive liberty, affirmative ...
  • 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 ...

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