M.A. Theses: Recent submissions

  • The unconcealedness of the truth: a study in Heideggerian understanding of truth 
    Kılıkçıer, Ahmet Serkan. (Thesis (M.A.) - Bogazici University. Institute for Graduate Studies in Social Sciences, 2014., 2014.)
    This thesis attempts to elaborate on different accounts of truth in Heidegger’s philosophy to investigate whether Heidegger’s understanding of Being as manifestness is metaphysically constructed. After this our investigation ...
  • Interest-relative determination of reference for the so-called natural kind terms 
    Geçmen, Kerem. (Thesis (M.A.) - Bogazici University. Institute for Graduate Studies in Social Sciences, 2014., 2014.)
    The aim of the present study is to show the important role human interests/concerns play in the determination of reference for kind terms such as gold, water, tiger etc. which are commonly discussed in the literature as ...
  • Heidegger on Kant: temporality and imagination 
    Mavituna, Cansen. (Thesis (M.A.) - Bogazici University. Institute for Graduate Studies in Social Sciences, 2014., 2014.)
    The subject matter of this thesis is Heidegger’s reading of Kant with temporality as the central concern. Heidegger interprets Kant’s project in Critique of Pure Reason as an ontological inquiry and appreciates Kant for ...
  • 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 ...
  • Kantian empirical cognition and singular concepts 
    Özdağ, Cenk. (Thesis (M.A.) - Bogazici University. Institute for Graduate Studies in the Social Sciences, 2013., 2013.)
    The subject-matter of this thesis is the distinction between empirical intuitions and empirical concepts in terms of two criteria, namely the singularity criterion and the immediacy criterion. The goal of the thesis on ...
  • 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 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 problem of induction from a metaphysical point of view 
    Bakdur, Eser. (Thesis (M.A.) - Bogazici University. Institute for Graduate Studies in the Social Sciences, 2013., 2013.)
    The aim of this study is to examine the metaphysical solutions recently proposed for the problem of induction, which we inherited from the Scottish empiricist philosopher David Hume. The problem of induction concerns its ...
  • Withering away of cartesian dichotomies: the theses on feuerbach and praxis as an epistemological kategory 
    Kaya, Evrim. (Thesis (M.A.) - Bogazici University. Institute for Graduate Studies in the Social Sciences, 2013., 2013.)
    The main project of the thesis is to explain the notion of praxis as formulated by Karl Marx as an answer to the distinctively Cartesian problem of the relation between the subject and the object. Focusing mainly on the ...
  • Curiosity as an intellectual and ethical virtue 
    Yiğit, Safiye. (Thesis (M.A.) - Bogazici University. Institute for Graduate Studies in Social Sciences, 2011., 2011.)
    In this study, I claim that curiosity is an ethical and intellectual virtue that is necessary for any well-lived life. I distinguish curiosity from other types of desiring to know that could emerge from pragmatic reasons, ...
  • Unveiling Kant’s Transcendental Deduction of the categories 
    İşeri, Melsen Tunca. (Thesis (M.A.) - Bogazici University. Institute for Graduate Studies in Social Sciences, 2011., 2011.)
    Kant attempts to establish a correlation between the unity of self-consciousness and the experience of an objectively valid world in the “Transcendental Deduction” of the Critique of Pure Reason. For this purpose, he plots ...
  • Perceptual and intuitional experience in Merleau-Ponty and Bergson 
    Tapınç, Merve Rümeysa. (Thesis (M.A.) - Bogazici University. Institute for Graduate Studies in Social Sciences, 2012., 2012.)
    In this thesis, I will make distinctions between Merleau-Ponty‟s and Bergson‟s account of perception, and disclose how intuitive experience and memory transform and improve perceptual experience. I will, first of all, ...
  • On the rigidity of general terms 
    Yavuz, Alper. (Thesis (M.A.) - Bogazici University. Institute for Graduate Studies in Social Sciences, 2012., 2012.)
    The aim of this thesis is to discuss whether general terms are rigid and if they are, how their rigidity should be interpreted. To this end, I first present the problems related to the rigidity of general terms. The most ...
  • Understanding self-consciousness 
    Dilek, Çağlan Çınar. (Thesis (M.A.) - Bogazici University. Institute for Graduate Studies in Social Sciences, 2011., 2011.)
    The aim of this thesis is to understand the nature of self-consciousness by examining self and consciousness. Taking Strawson’s sense of Self as an inner mental entity as a starting point, I discuss if agency and personality ...
  • Heidegger's contribution to the ontological analysis of the world and the self 
    Akman, Ela. (Thesis (M.A.) - Bogazici University. Institute of Social Sciences, 1995., 1995.)
    The subject matter of this thesis is the Heideggerian understanding of the Self which results from a radical conception of man as Dasein. Heidegger by rejecting a dualistic conception of reality which divides it into two ...
  • Quine on modal logic 
    Bilgili, Hanife. (Thesis (M.A.) - Bogazici University. Institute for Graduate Studies in Social Sciences, 2011., 2011.)
    This thesis aims at examining and evaluating Quine’s objections to modal logic. In the history of the study of modality there has been an effort to offer a system that is capable of putting the subject in question out ...
  • 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 ...
  • Historical perspective in the sciences 
    Karagözoğlu, Senem. (Thesis (M.A.)-Bogazici University. Institute for Graduate Studies in the Social Sciences, 2010., 2010.)
    The present thesis aims to demonstrate that the distinction between historical and scientific disciplines is indefensible, because a historical perspective is necessary for a scientific understanding of the universe. To ...
  • Do incomplete definite descriptions refute Russell’s theory of descriptions? 
    Ataman, Işık Pelin. (Thesis (M.A.) - Bogazici University. Institute for Graduate Studies in Social Sciences, 2011., 2011.)
    The aim of this study is to formulate a Russellian solution to the problem of incomplete definite descriptions, and thereby defend Russell’s Theory of Descriptions. To this end, I argue that the proper way to approach the ...
  • Is later Wittgenstein a relativist?: an investigation on / through forms of life 
    Turan, Caner. (Thesis (M.A.) - Bogazici University. Institute for Graduate Studies in Social Sciences, 2011., 2011.)
    There are two main interconnected concerns of this thesis. One is to make an investigation on “forms of life” which is one of the most important notions in philosophical framework of later Wittgenstein. When Wittgenstein ...

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