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    Experimental video art : on the borders between theory and practice
    (2011) Tepehan, Neslihan
    The aim of this thesis is to explore the new image and thought in reference to philosophy of Gilles Deleuze. Thus, his discussions on art and cinema are studied thoroughly. The revelation of affects, percepts and sensations in art constitutes the important amount of this thesis. In reference to that the revelation of movementimage and time-image in cinema explored, in order to understand the identity of the image in different art forms. Finally in the light of these explorations on image, experimental video art is discussed in individual works, in the hope of discovering borders between theory and practice aside the discovery of the possibilities this new image can offer to thought. These discussions on cinema and experimental video art enlighten not only concepts of cinema and video, but also alter their relation with other practices and theories.
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    A new outlook on the problem of natural kind status of emotions
    (2020-06) Küçük, Kardelen
    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 for scientific investigations on the grounds that they are not natural kinds. On the other hand, some argue that emotions, at least basic emotions, are natural kinds and the existing emotion categories are viable for scientific investigation. At the beginning of thesis, I will introduce sensation-based theories of emotion and glance at what the constitutive components of emotions might be. Thenceforth, I will examine natural and nonnatural kinds to illustrate what kind of criteria for natural kinds can be settled. In light of this information, I will show what the experimental data purports about the natural kind status of emotions. As a last step, to answer the main question of the thesis, I will assert that we have to distinguish between emotions and emotional sensations. I will contend that emotional sensations, which I take to be the cores of emotions, might be accepted to be natural kinds since they are less subject to environmental and personal factors, compared to emotions. However, I will take an agnostic stance regarding the question whether this claim can be scientifically proven or not.