Browsing Theses - Department of Philosophy by Title
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The paradox of horror or the value of negative aesthetic experiences
(Bilkent University, 2019-05)David Hume (1982) in Of Tragedy asks the question that how is it possible for audiences to get pleasure from disagreeable emotions? My dissertation addresses the contemporary version of the paradox of tragedy that raises ... -
Pathologically chronic pain and pain avoidance behavior within predictive processing framework
(Bilkent University, 2021-06)Pain as the most enquired philosophical theme is a complex experience, which includes sensation, emotion, motivation, cognition, and social interaction. However, there is not a single overarching philosophical theory that ... -
Plant mind through amalgamated functionalism and its impact on the definition of mind
(Bilkent University, 2021-05)The definition of the mind seems to be a vague and unstable one in the philosophy of mind. This thesis aims to find some solid features through which we could define the mind or chose to remove from its definition with the ... -
The possibility of theorising the law as a normative social phenomenon: the prior phase and theoretical presuppositions
(Bilkent University, 2019-05)For the last two decades, there has been an impasse between the two main camps of positivism and normativism in the ongoing methodology debate in jurisprudence. Furthermore, there have been recent attacks on the foundations ... -
A re-examination of computational creativity through non-human animals
(Bilkent University, 2020-06)The advancement of artificial intelligence suggests signs of computational creativity; however, the case for computational creativity is undermined by an anthropocentric bias. In this thesis, I attempt to broaden the ... -
Strengthening the pre-established harmony response to the epistemic challenge of evolution in non-naturalist metaethical realism
(Bilkent University, 2018-05)This thesis outlines a popular non-naturalist response to evolutionary debunking arguments against metaethical realism: the pre-established harmony response. I argue that the pre-established harmony response is unsuccessful ... -
Unreliable narratives and scepticism: what can we learn from fiction?
(Bilkent University, 2021-05)This thesis investigates whether we can learn from fiction. First, I analyse accounts of how we understand fiction and of the concepts that need to be analysed. Then I look more specifically at accounts that suggest we can ... -
Unreliable narrator: memory, accuracy and function
(Bilkent University, 2019-05)If the past is in the past then, why cannot we just let it go? The answer is simple. We are obsessed with our past and it is always running alongside us. Moreover, we are inclined to think that what we remember is true ... -
What stream exactly? The better nature of the early stream of consciousness fiction
(Bilkent University, 2021-01)The term “the stream of consciousness” refers to two different notions: a philosophical psychology theory purported by William James (“the Stream”), and a genre in 20th-century fiction that deals with the conscious ...
