Browsing by Subject "Fragmentation"
Now showing 1 - 2 of 2
Results Per Page
Sort Options
Item Open Access How to be fragmented?(Bilkent University, 2018-05) Eroğlu, Ali KeremActual human agents have limited cognitive capacity. They might display deductive failure, contradictory beliefs and imperfect recall. These and other similar cases raise a problem for idealized models of belief and behavior. The purpose of this thesis is to provide a way to accommodate these cases through a model of belief formation and retrieval based on information access. I will argue that belief formation and retrieval are sensitive to the informational context within which they take place. Human agents deploy information relative to the set of possibilities they take to be relevant.Item Open Access The problem of Northern Ireland as a case study of first world nationalism(Bilkent University, 2001) Gür, Asaf ÇınarThis thesis analyzes the challenges presented by ethnic movements in the first world to the sovereignty rights of nation-states. Modern states, that erased the former identities of their native populations, saw with the termination of the Cold War, the resurrection of those past identities, claiming self-determination. Some movements were successful in seceding and establishing new states. Whereas some other ethnic movements reached accommodations with power devolution mechanisms. However those that have not been able to achieve both, experienced continuous ethnic strife in the political sphere. The thesis explores the Northern Irish case as a First World nationalism that has not been able to achieve either. The Irish case is analyzed in order to identify reasons behind the existence and emergence of First World ethnic nationalisms.