Felsefe: Recent submissions

  • The ontology of social relations in Marx's Capital 
    Yılankaya, Banu. (Thesis (M.A.)-Bogazici University. Institute for Graduate Studies in the Social Sciences, 2007., 2007.)
    This thesis aims to read Marx's analysis of value as suggesting an ontology of social relations. To this aim, I will first provide a preliminary account of Marx's philosophy in Capital with a view to expounding the basis ...
  • A Study on Plato's attack on democracy 
    Ersu, Erkin. (Thesis (B.A.)-Robert College, 1958., 1958.)
  • The immediate object of visual perception 
    Uluç, Işıl. (Thesis (M.A.)-Bogazici University. Institute for Graduate Studies in the Social Sciences, 2007., 2007.)
    This thesis aims to understand the nature of the visual perception by mainly focusing on the question, “What is the immediate object of visual experience?” To this aim, I will examine the theories of perception and give ...
  • The knowledge of contingent a priori truths, performatives and pragmatic inferences 
    Muhtaroğlu, Nazif. (Thesis (M.A.)-Bogazici University. Institute for Graduate Studies in the Social Sciences, 2007., 2007.)
    Saul Kripke claims that there are contingent a priori truths. His argument for this claim depends on his account of naming. By assuming his account of naming, I try to improve his argument by adding two premises expressing ...
  • Carnap's conventionalism 
    Sungur, Uluğ R. (Thesis (M.A.)-Bogazici University. Institute for Graduate Studies in Social Sciences, 2006., 2006.)
    In this thesis Carnap's conventionalism is analysed. Carnap's distinction between internal questions of existence and external questions of existence, is the departure point of the analysis. However, it is claimed that we ...
  • Liberal culturalism and the individual: an alternative account of cultural identities 
    Daşhan, Fulya Özlem. (Thesis (M.A.)-Bogazici University. Institute for Graduate Studies in Social Sciences, 2006., 2006.)
    In my thesis I aim to provide a philosophical basis to argue for a version of Pluralism which gives theoretical support for a form of Political Liberalism that is oriented towards enhancing communication among a diversity ...
  • Inferentialism and indeterminacy at home 
    Şişkolar, Cem. (Thesis (M.A.)-Bogazici University. Institute for Graduate Studies in Social Sciences, 2006., 2006.)
    According to W.V. Quine his thesis of the indeterminacy of radical inter-linguistic translation applies to the home language as well. This view implies that the usual homophonic understanding of our interlocutors' utterances ...
  • Two approaches to poverty: a comparative study on Amartya Sen's theory of capability deprivation and the framework of socil exclusion 
    Yuncu, Latife Demet. (Thesis (M.A.)-Bogazici University. Graduate Institute of Social Sciences, 2005., 2005.)
    All through history, different concepts have been employed to explain poverty. In contemporary debates about poverty, social exclusion and capability deprivation are two influential approaches. Both approaches highlight ...
  • The theory of time as relations 
    Er, Memduh. (Thesis (M.A.)-Bogazici University. Institute for Graduate Studies in Social Sciences, 2006., 2006.)
    The aim of this thesis is to analyze "The Problem of Change" and to investigate a possible solution that solves the problem. To achieve this end two rival analytical approaches, namely endurance theory and perdurance theory, ...
  • Popper and Hayek on the principle of unintended consequences 
    Hacıhamdioğlu, Cavit. (Thesis (M.A.)-Bogazici University. Institute for Graduate Studies in Social Sciences, 2006., 2006.)
    The use of the principle of unintended consequences has an important place to legitimize or deligitimize the role of state intervention in the market. The conservative liberal, like Hayek, uses the principle of unintended ...
  • Strategies for feminist critique of science: an evaluation 
    Sezener, Ayşegül. (Thesis (M.A.)-Bogazici University. Graduate Institute of Social Sciences, 2005., 2005.)
    In my thesis, I have mainly argued for two claims: i) that feminist critique of science is a legitimate philosophical agenda in that its philosophical grounds are not refuted or completely discredited as its critics sometimes ...
  • Challenging Isaiah Berlin's distinction between negative and positive freedom 
    Doğruöz, Hakan Şükrü. (Thesis (M.A.)-Bogazici University. Institute for Graduate Studies in Social Sciences, 2004., 2004.)
    Isaiah Berlin is one of the key figures who has dominated the field of social freedom with his distinction between negative and positive conceptions of freedom. In this dissertation, I have argued that analyzing freedom ...
  • Aeschylus' Oresteia and his idea of justice 
    Sel, Esen. (Thesis (B.A.) - Robert College, 1958., 1958.)
  • A comparison of Aristotelian and Cartesian highest human goods 
    Safalı, Levent. (Thesis (M.A.)-Bogazici University. Institute for Graduate Studies in Social Sciences, 2004., 2004.)
    The present thesis is an attempt to analyze and compare two philosophers' accounts of the highest human good: Aristotle's and Descartes'. My main goal has been, after understanding the conceptual frameworks necessary to ...
  • Philosophy as anti-sophistic 
    Yiğit, Rezzan İlke. (Thesis (M.A.)-Bogazici University. Institute for Graduate Studies in Social Sciences, 2004., 2004.)
    The present thesis is an attempt to give a definition of philosophy by looking at the philosopher's definition of sophistry. My main goal has been to understand the conceptual framework in which sophistry and philosophy ...
  • Reference to the future 
    Natalina, Elena. (Thesis (M.A.)-Bogazici University. Institute for Graduate Studies in Social Sciences, 2004., 2004.)
    The thesis investigates the issue of speaker's and semantic reference to future objects. The conditions for each type of reference are developed by using some aspects of the descriptivist and causal theories of reference, ...
  • Surpassing wantonness by appealing to emotions :|a Neo-Frankfurtian approach to freedom of the will 
    Boylu, Ayça. (Thesis (M.A.)-Bogazici University. Institute for Graduate Studies in Social Sciences, 2004., 2004.)
    In this thesis, I question whether certain kinds of emotions are necessary for one's realization of freedom. In searching an answer to this question, I focus on a specific approach to freedom, namely the Frankfurtian ...
  • Constitutive a priori 
    Erdur, Melis. (Thesis (M.A.)-Bogazici University. Institute for Graduate Studies in Social Sciences, 2004., 2004.)
    Recently there has been a renewed interest in the issue of a priority. Many philosophers have proposed accounts that attempt to establish the existence of a priori propositions while avoiding the difficulties of the former ...
  • Scientism and democracy within science 
    Gül, Ahmet. (Thesis (M.A.) - Bogazici University. Institute for Graduate Studies in Social Sciences, 2022., 2022.)
    In this thesis I examine understanding, a cognitive phenomenon which for many philosophers has a distinct epistemic standing than that of knowledge. Understanding, it is assumed, requires some cognitive abilities that ...
  • Experience in autism spectrum disorder as evidence for the relationship between simulation theory and empathy 
    Ramadan, Hashem. (Thesis (M.A.) - Bogazici University. Institute for Graduate Studies in the Social Sciences, 2022., 2022.)
    Much of the discussion around theory of mind (ToM) puts autism spectrum disorder (ASD) in the spotlight because of its many symptoms affecting social cognition and interaction. More specifically, simulation theory in ...