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    Ölümün gölgesindeki kadın
    (Ürün Yayınları, 2013) Bayrakçeken-Akın, Aylin
    In Rockaby, life is divided into four parts and aseach part comes to an end the old woman's hope of communication lessens. Therefore, she is pushed into loneliness and unhappiness. All her life becomes the monotonous and repetitive movement of a rocking chair, going back and forth since she never moves out of this chair.. Her self is divided into, consciousness or mind represented by W' s recorded voice, and her body or physical life is symbolized by the rocking chair. From the accounts of the recorded voice it becomes clear that all her life the old woman looked for a companion, a living soul, the presence of whom would give her the comfort she needed. Then, towards the end she realizes that life cannot offer her the warmth, security and darkness she searches for. She wishes to return to her mother's womb or to 'death' where she hopes to find a possible salvation.
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    Plant mind through amalgamated functionalism and its impact on the definition of mind
    (2021-05) Meriç, Cansu İrem
    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 aid of the analyses of plants, a species quite unlike human beings, and the cognitive capabilities they seemed to possess. After evading the recent objections against multiple realization theory, which is a theory placed at the core of functionalism, and reconciling the embodied and extended mind theses with it, functionalism (or as it is indicated in the thesis; amalgamated functionalism) has taken as the leading theory of mind. The plant mind is investigated in the light of this amalgamated functionalism. The thesis presents the familiar cognitive capabilities plants have and makes a suggestion on which features we definitely should or should not include in the general definition of the mind. In the end, a decision has been made on whether plants are beings endowed with the faculty of the mind.