M.A. Theses: Recent submissions

  • Artifact concept pluralism 
    Güngör, Alper. (Thesis (M.A.) - Bogazici University. Institute for Graduate Studies in the Social Sciences, 2022., 2022.)
    Countless artifacts surround our lives. We have a rough idea of what artifacts are: artifacts are objects made to serve a certain purpose. However, there is no consensus on how to specify this definition. Essentialists ...
  • Fragmentation of truth :|Heidegger’s confrontation with Plato 
    Kızılkaya Ünal, Ebru. (Thesis (M.A.) - Bogazici University. Institute for Graduate Studies in the Social Sciences, 2021., 2021.)
    Heidegger’s interpretation of Plato’s concept of truth falsely accuses Plato of incarcerating truth in proposition and losing the experience of truth as un-concealment. Plato didn’t give priority to truth as correctness ...
  • 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, ...
  • "The Unity of Existence" in IbnʿArabī's Seals of Wisdom and Plotinus’ Enneads 
    Ghazani, Rasoul Rahbari. (Thesis (M.A.) - Bogazici University. Institute for Graduate Studies in the Social Sciences, 2021., 2021.)
    The doctrine of ‘the unity of existence’ or ‘oneness of being’, generally referred to as the doctrine of ‘the One,’ is of cardinal importance in philosophy. It has penetrated the Greek and Islamic Metaphysics so deep ...
  • Ineffability and interpretation in Wittgenstein’s philosophy of art 
    Kılıç, Kadir. (Thesis (M.A.) - Bogazici University. Institute for Graduate Studies in the Social Sciences, 2021., 2021.)
    In contemporary philosophy, there is tension between ineffabilist and interpretivist theories of art. The ineffabilist claims that the discontinuity between art and non artistic practices implies the impossibility of ...
  • A reconciliation of two approaches to freedom :|neo-republicanism and Marxism 
    Kılıç, Onur. (Thesis (M.A.) - Bogazici University. Institute for Graduate Studies in the Social Sciences, 2021., 2021.)
    Philip Pettit and Quentin Skinner argue that neo-republican freedom, which is freedom as non-domination, is a negative conception of freedom. It is an alternative to all accounts of positive freedom and the liberal ...
  • On the significance of analyticity: a study on the controversy between Carnap and Quine 
    Korkut, Buket. (Thesis (M.A.)-Bogazici University. Institute of Social Sciences, 2003., 2003.)
    This thesis is a study on the significance of analyticity, in particular, on the controversy between Carnap and Quine regarding analyticity. The analysis follows an historical order of Carnap's two periods: syntax and ...
  • A late Wittgensteinian approach to early Christian apophaticism 
    Sadıkoğlu, Çetin. (Thesis (M.A.) - Bogazici University. Institute for Graduate Studies in the Social Sciences, 2021., 2021.)
    This thesis investigates the possibility of a ground on which language can provide us with an opportunity to talk about God, despite the concerns about His ineffability as argued by religious apophaticism. Apophaticism is ...
  • Digital artifacts as abstract objects :|an ontological comparison to musical works 
    Aktaş, Duygu. (Thesis (M.A.) - Bogazici University. Institute for Graduate Studies in the Social Sciences, 2019., 2019.)
    Digital objects such as computer programs, web-based programs, social media accounts etc. appear to change enormously. One position is that such changes are only results of some linguistic conventions rather than true ...
  • Humans on the thresholds of history :|Protagoras, Pico della Mirandola, and Herder 
    Küçük, Eyüp Engin. (Thesis (M.A.) - Bogazici University. Institute for Graduate Studies in the Social Sciences, 2020., 2020.)
    This thesis presents the transformation of the ideas on the nature of human beings throughout three fundamental thresholds of the history of philosophy by examining the three representative philosophers from these thresholds. ...
  • The problem of sourcehood in the libertarian accounts of John Searle and Robert Kane 
    Kıraç, Kerim Can. (Thesis (M.A.) - Bogazici University. Institute for Graduate Studies in the Social Sciences, 2019., 2019.)
    Free will is one of the most hotly debated issues in the history of philosophy, which also caused a lot of confusions in the minds of people who are arguing about it. In this thesis, I will mainly focus on the sourcehood ...
  • Defining the concept of mechanism on computationality 
    Şener, Deniz İlyas. (Thesis (M.A.)-Bogazici University. Institute for Graduate Studies in the Social Sciences, 2019., 2019.)
    The new mechanism trend in the twenty-first century philosophy of science, which deals with the special sciences in providing scientific explanations, depends centrally on the concept of mechanism, yet the lack of a ...
  • The republicanism of Philip Pettit in times of crisis 
    Güran, Enes. (Thesis (M.A.) - Bogazici University. Institute for Graduate Studies in the Social Sciences, 2019., 2019.)
    The literature on the long tradition of republicanism has burgeoned in the past few decades. Republicanism with its distinctive theoretical and historical features distinguishes itself from other familiar political ...
  • A debate on the constitution of subject in feminist theory and politics 
    Baykal, Tuğba. (Thesis (M.A.) - Bogazici University. Institute for Graduate Studies in the Social Sciences, 2019., 2019.)
    The category of the “subject” in feminist theory and politics has been a heated debate since the beginning of the feminist movement. Considering “woman” as a theoretical subject and women as material beings in the world, ...
  • Therapeutic philosophy:|Advantages and limitations 
    Özer, Can. (Thesis (M.A.) - Bogazici University. Institute for Graduate Studies in the Social Sciences, 2019., 2019.)
    Wittgenstein saw philosophy as an activity of clarification and description of various language-games. Following his methodology, this thesis outlines a Wittgensteinian political philosophy that is equipped with the ...
  • Trope theory and resemblance 
    Çöğendez, Neva. (Thesis (M.A.) - Bogazici University. Institute for Graduate Studies in the Social Sciences, 2019., 2019.)
    According to the resemblance nominalist view, objects have properties with respect to their resemblance relations. Groups of objects that resemble each other constitute a resemblance class and every resemblance class ...
  • On ordinary objects 
    Dayan, Göksu. (Thesis (M.A.) - Bogazici University. Institute for Graduate Studies in the Social Sciences, 2019., 2019.)
    In this thesis, I discuss Amie Thomasson’s framework defending the existence of ordinary objects and some criticisms raised by Jonathan Schaffer and Simon Evnine and then provide two original arguments against Thomasson. ...
  • The role and significance of curiosity in philosophy for children 
    Altıparmak, İrem Günhan. (Thesis (M.A.) - Bogazici University. Institute for Graduate Studies in the Social Sciences, 2019., 2019.)
    Philosophy for Children (P4C) is an educational movement which aims to develop children’s thinking and reasoning skills by means of engaging them in intellectual inquiry and questioning. Though P4C is predominantly based ...
  • A critique of Hintikka’s reconstruction of Kantian intuition in logical and mathematical reasoning 
    Arslan, Aran. (Thesis (M.A.) - Bogazici University. Institute for Graduate Studies in the Social Sciences, 2019., 2019.)
    This thesis is a critique of Jaakko Hintikka’s reconstruction of Kantian intuition in logical and mathematical reasoning. I argue that Hintikka’s reconstruction of Kantian intuition in particular and his reconstruction ...
  • 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 ...

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