Felsefe: Recent submissions

  • 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 ...
  • 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 ...
  • 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 ...
  • 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 ...
  • Ön, Emek. (Thesis (M.A.)-Bogazici University. Institute for Graduate Studies in the Social Sciences, 2010., 2010.)
    The use of the concept of infinite and of nonconstructive methods in mathematics needs justification. For this reason, we need to prove that these methods do not lead to inconsistencies. In order to achieve that, we formalize ...
  • Kingston, Laura Elizabeth. (Thesis (M.A.)-Bogazici University. Institute for Graduate Studies in the Social Sciences, 2010., 2010.)
    This project scrutinizes philosophical positions that have both realistic and relativistic tendencies in order to show how the precarious relationship between truth and reality can be stabilised through an endorsement of ...
  • Sürmen, Banu Berna. (Thesis (M.A.)-Bogazici University. Institute for Graduate Studies in the Social Sciences, 2010., 2010.)
    Over the last twenty years, the demands of market have captured the reproductive medicine. As levels of infertility among women have been rising immensely, there is also an increased demand for eggs. This demand has lead ...
  • Çitil, Ahmet Ayhan. (Thesis (M.A.) - Bogazici University. Institute of Social Sciences, 1994., 1994.)
    In the present thesis, we carry out an ontological investigation of Goders incompleteness theorems in view of which we obtain an interpretation of Godel's incompleteness results. In our ontological investigation, we determine ...
  • Kandemir, Fatma Deniz. (Thesis (M.A.)-Bogazici University. Institute for Graduate Studies in the Social Sciences, 2010., 2010.)
    Phenomenology of Spirit as the Teleological Unfolding of Consciousness” In this thesis, Hegel‟s conception of the “experience of consciousness” as the very movement of natural consciousness towards knowledge of itself will ...
  • Bakır, Onur. (Thesis (M.A.)-Bogazici University. Institute for Graduate Studies in the Social Sciences, 2010., 2010.)
    This thesis investigates how rules and actions can be related to each other in an immanent way. To do this, I first focus on a prominent thinker, Ferdinand de Saussure, who defends the inevitability of separating rules and ...
  • Korkmaz, İbrahim. (Thesis (M.A.)-Bogazici University. Institute for Graduate Studies in Social Sciences, 2010., 2010.)
    As the economist Stephen Cullenberg pointed out, for Marx, the law of falling rate of profit is the most important law of political economy. The central theses of this study are [a] that Marx’s law of falling rate of profit ...
  • Yılmaz, Şirin. (Thesis (M.A.)-Bogazici University. Institute for Graduate Studies in the Social Sciences, 2010., 2010.)
    This thesis aims to investigate how Plato in his dialogues through the Socratic character treats the method of dialectic as being some kind of techné. On the grounds of Plato’s dialogues, the inquiry begins by enumerating ...
  • Willey, Clinton Marshall. (Thesis (M.A.)-Bogazici University. Institute for Graduate Studies in the Social Sciences, 2010., 2010.)
    As a philosopher, Albert Schweitzer is known chiefly for his notion of Reverence for Life, as well as his statement that “My life is my argument.” Yet The Philosophy of Civilization, his philosophical magnum opus, is a ...
  • Dolun, Botan. (Thesis (M.A.)-Bogazici University. Institute for Graduate Studies in Social Sciences, 2009., 2009.)
    Historically, the philosophy of emotion deals with the question of what emotions are and how they relate to other types of mental states. This thesis gives an answer to this question in two consecutive steps. First, we ...
  • Pusar, Güçsal. (Thesis (M.A.)-Bogazici University. Institute for Graduate Studies in Social Sciences, 2009., 2009.)
    The main concern of the thesis is to expose the specifically critical thrust of Kant’s conception of genius. The guiding thread of our investigation is Kant’s conceptualization of taste as the discipline of genius. We argue ...
  • Geyik, Sefa. (Thesis (M.A.)-Bogazici University. Institute for Graduate Studies in the Social Sciences, 2009., 2009.)
    The aim of this thesis is to provide o consistent solution for the philosophical problem of akrasia. Akrasia, a Greek word, is translated into English as “lacking command over oneself” or “weakness of will”. The question ...
  • Ar, Özge. (Thesis (M.A.)-Bogazici University. Institute for Graduate Studies in Social Sciences, 2009., 2009.)
    The present thesis concerns the possibility of nonconceptual concent from a representationalist framework. It briefly reviews the literature on nonconceptual content. It takes conceptuality and nonconceptuality as features ...
  • Çil, Dilek Arlı. (Thesis (M.A.)-Bogazici University. Institute for Graduate Studies in Social Sciences, 2009., 2009.)
    This thesis aims at investigating the odd implications of the view that knowledge does not require certainty such as the utterances “I know p, but I am not certain that p”, “I know p, but it is not certain that p”, “I know ...
  • Altınay, Rüstem Ertuğ. (Thesis (M.A.)-Bogazici University. Institute for Graduate Studies in Social Sciences, 2009., 2009.)
    Forensic bioethics is a branch of bioethics that has traditionally enjoyed little interest. The aim of this thesis is to focus on skeletal age diagnosis, a popular forensic procedure in Turkey, to explore the ethical ...
  • Kovanlıkaya, Aliye. (Thesis (M.A.)- Bogazici University. Institute for Graduate Studies in Social Sciences, 1994., 1994.)
    In this thesis, it is attempted to investigate the ontological foundations of McTaggart's argument on the unreality of time which is generally considered independently from McTaggart's ontology. It is also aimed to show ...

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