Felsefe: Recent submissions

  • Contemporary debates on the ethical basis of Marx's social theory 
    Savaş, Zeynep. (Thesis (M.A.)-Bogazici University. Institute for Graduate Studies in Social Sciences, 2009., 2009.)
    The central aim of this thesis is to present contemporary debates on the relation of Marx's social theory and morality. In the introduction part, two major parties involved in the controversy are exposed. Allen Wood is ...
  • Semantics of empty names: could Vulcan have existed? 
    Buhara, Berrak. (Thesis (M.A.)-Bogazici University. Institute for Graduate Studies in Social Sciences, 2009., 2009.)
    Speaking of things that do not exist constitutes a significant part of our conversations. It happens when we talk about such things as the tenth planet, Phlogiston, the Loch Ness Monster or the Yeti. When speaking of what ...
  • The manifestation of freedom as a 'productive politics'” 
    Sarı, Yasemin. (Thesis (M.A.)-Bogazici University. Institute for Graduate Studies in Social Sciences, 2009., 2009.)
    This thesis aims to provide an insight to the concept of freedom through an integration of Marx's and Arendt's systems. The investigation will begin with Arendt's distinction between the concepts of labor and work in order ...
  • On Davidson’s idea of a conceptual scheme 
    Maşa, Bahadır. (Thesis (M.A.)-Bogazici University. Institute for Graduate Studies in Social Sciences, 2009., 2009.)
    In his article titled “On the Very Idea of a Conceptual Scheme”, Donald Davidson argues that the duality of uninterpreted content and conceptual scheme is the “third” dogma of empiricism. According to Davidson, the idea ...
  • Kant’s mind and its matter 
    Bektaş, Fatoş. (Thesis (M.A.)-Bogazici University. Institute for Graduate Studies in the Social Sciences, 2008., 2008.)
    Mind and body interaction has been a problem of philosophy and science for years. It is puzzling how the mind, which is something immaterial, finds a way to express itself in the material body. The subject of experience ...
  • The reconstruction of the “Genius Aesthetics” in Adorno’s philosophy 
    Özdüzen, Özge. (Thesis (M.A.)-Bogazici University. Institute for Graduate Studies in Social Sciences, 2009., 2009.)
    This study claims that the Jena Romanticist philosophy created a unique subject within the history of philosophy. The romantic subject has a certain mission which is “romanticizing the world.” This unique subject emerges ...
  • Aestheticism and the romantic absolute: new mythology of early German romanticism 
    Küçükarslan, Onur. (Thesis (M.A.)-Bogazici University. Institute for Graduate Studies in the Social Sciences, 2008., 2008.)
    This study claims that Early German Romanticism introduced an authentic and independent philosophical perspective by refusing various dualisms of Kant and Fichte’s postulation of first principles and foundations of ...
  • In defense of ordinary objects: a study in common sense ontolog 
    Irmak, Nurbay. (Thesis (M.A.)-Bogazici University. Institute for Graduate Studies in Social Sciences, 2009., 2009.)
    In this thesis I defend a common sense view regarding the ontological status of ordinary objects. It is a defense against philosophers who have believed and argued for the idea that the manifest objects of everyday human ...
  • Liberty as non-domination: a critical discussion 
    Sevinç, Tuğba. (Thesis (M.A.)-Bogazici University. Institute for Graduate Studies in the Social Sciences, 2008., 2008.)
    This thesis aims at analyzing Philip Pettit’s notion of domination with a view to examining the republican conception of political liberty as non-domination. To do so, the definition and the harms of domination are examined ...
  • A humean reading of Nietzsche: problem of "Is vs. Ought" 
    Demirel, Ertürk. (Thesis (M.A.)-Bogazici University. Institute for Graduate Studies in the Social Sciences, 2008., 2008.)
    The aim of this study is to derive a Nietzschean solution to the inferential gap between the factual premises and the moral conclusion in a moral argument. I argue that the problem is not to be solved on the formal level. ...
  • The problem of 'space' in Frege's ontology a transcentental inquiry 
    Armaner, Türker. (Thesis (M.A.)- Bogazici University. Institute for Graduate Studies in Social Sciences, 1994., 1994.)
    This thesis is an attempt to evaluate Frege's ontology of numbers in a critical way in view of Kant's transcendental philosophy. Despite the significant divergences between Kant and Frege, these two philosophers will be ...
  • Against causal efficacy of dispositions 
    İçen, İlksen Necati. (Thesis (M.A.)-Bogazici University. Institute for Graduate Studies in the Social Sciences, 2008., 2008.)
    The present thesis is an investigation of dispositional properties and their manifestations as a way to give causal explanations in sciences. According to Stephen Mumford, even though by appealing to dispositional explanations ...
  • The question of evil in Plato 
    Oranlı, İmge. (Thesis (M.A.)-Bogazici University. Institute for Graduate Studies in the Social Sciences, 2008., 2008.)
    This thesis aims at understanding Plato’s conception of evil. For this we are trying to determine what evil is in various aspects of Platonic Philosophy. We are arguing that in all of these aspects, in ontology, cosmology, ...
  • Voluntary active euthanasia: justifications and regulations 
    Canca, Cansu. (Thesis (M.A.)-Bogazici University. Institute for Graduate Studies in Social Sciences, 2007., 2007.)
    Voluntary active euthanasia is the most controversial category of euthanasia, which itself causes a great amount of discussions. This thesis defends the position that voluntary active euthanasia should be considered morally ...
  • Fate and moral responsibility in stoicism 
    Yırcalı, Gökçe. (Thesis (M.A.)-Bogazici University. Institute for Graduate Studies in Social Sciences, 2007., 2007.)
    The Stoics have an intricate account of fate which is interconnected with many branches of their thought, their ontology, logic, physics, theology and ethics. It is the Stoic claim that agents could be held to be morally ...
  • Against historicism and aestheticism: Walter Benjamin's critical philosophy of film 
    Arınç, Cihat. (Thesis (M.A.)-Bogazici University. Institute for Graduate Studies in the Social Sciences, 2008., 2008.)
    When "aesthetics" emerged in the eighteenth century, there was no advent of different theories for various branches of art. In the nineteenth century, philosophical aesthetics literature deepened along with works written ...
  • Sense perception and the self 
    Koçak, Ayşe Özge. (Thesis (M.A.)-Bogazici University. Institute for Graduate the Social Sciences, 2007., 2007.)
    This thesis aims at analyzing the content of perceptual experience with a view to understand whether non-conceptual perceptual content is possible. To do so, the definition and the function of perception are evaluated to ...
  • Origins of critique: subject, rationality and praxis in critical theory 
    Özdemir, Onur. (Thesis (M.A.)-Bogazici University. Institute for Graduate Studies in Social Sciences, 2007., 2007.)
    In this study, I aim to inquire about the origins of Critical Theory with a view to its conception of critique. The concept of critique is articulated by reference to its opposition to mere criticism, because in that ...
  • Builders at opposite poles, or pioneers of different quests? contrasting heidegger and sellars 
    Sanlı, Alptekin. (Thesis (M.A.)-Bogazici University. Institute for Graduate Studies in the Social Sciences, 2007., 2007.)
    The present thesis concerns the status of the conceptual in our experience of the world. The trajectory of my argument runs as follows: (1) Responding to a recent debate between professors Hubert L. Dreyfus and John McDowell, ...
  • Epistemic truth versus non-epistemic truth: toward a revised version of the correspondence theory of truth 
    Durmuş, Deniz. (Thesis (M.A.)-Bogazici University. Institute for Graduate Studies in Social Sciences, 2007., 2007.)
    This thesis defends the idea that truth is a non-epistemic notion that consists in some correspondence relation between our propositions and external reality. Taking into account the criticisms brought to the classical ...