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    • Armies as corporate agents: a new response to Lazar’s ‘responsibility dilemma’ 

      Boğa, Dilara (Bilkent University, 2019-05)
      The ‘Responsibility Dilemma’ is a significant issue for Just War Theory. The dilemma deals with the question of how to explain why non-combatants are not liable for lethal defensive harms despite being blameworthy. In this ...

    • Can we see non-human animals are agents? 

      Pamukcu, Efsun İlayda (Bilkent University, 2020-06)
      In this thesis, I investigate non-human animal agency and I question whether we can see non-human animals are agents or not. I shall adopt a Moorean approach to animal agency and argue that we can see animals are agents ...

    • A new outlook on the problem of natural kind status of emotions 

      Küçük, Kardelen (Bilkent University, 2020-06)
      This thesis deals with the question of whether emotions are natural kinds or not. Those who take a negative stance in this ongoing debate argue that the emotion categories that scientists make use of are not appropriate ...

    • The normative force of certainty: a defense of realism 

      Bölek, Sena (Bilkent University, 2021-01)
      Crispin Wright, in Truth and Objectivity, introduces his anti-realist paradigm, arguing that discourse about morality can be truth-apt without holding a realist stance. There, he formulates the criterion of Cognitive Command ...

    • Scientific realism VIS-À-VIS the evolutionary debunking argument 

      Uyar, Damla (Bilkent University, 2022-05)
      Evolutionary debunking arguments (EDA) are widely used in moral philosophy literature, and have been used as a skeptical challenge to moral realism. Whether such an evolutionary debunking argument can also apply to scientific ...

    • Towards a better understanding of morally responsible agency 

      Haghshenas, Roohollah (Bilkent University, 2021-05)
      In this thesis, I defend P. F. Strawson’s distinction of internal-external problems to our ideas of moral responsibility practices. Then, I introduce the problems of superbad people as some serious internal problems. What ...

    • Truth in theatrical works 

      Çelik, Zeynep (Bilkent University, 2022-05)
      The question of how to define truth in fiction has caught the interest of many philosophers. The reason for this lies in the complexity of claiming whether fictional entities exist or not. Most philosophers have dealt ...