A fictionalist social ontology
| buir.advisor | Payton, Jonathan D. | |
| dc.contributor.author | Bakkal, Erim | |
| dc.date.accessioned | 2024-06-26T10:24:16Z | |
| dc.date.available | 2024-06-26T10:24:16Z | |
| dc.date.copyright | 2024-05 | |
| dc.date.issued | 2024-05 | |
| dc.date.submitted | 2024-06-14 | |
| dc.department | Department of Philosophy | |
| dc.description | Cataloged from PDF version of article. | |
| dc.description | Thesis (Master's): Bilkent University, Department of Philosophy, İhsan Doğramacı Bilkent University, 2024. | |
| dc.description | Includes bibliographical references (leaves 48-55). | |
| dc.description.abstract | In this thesis, I explore how a fictionalist approach can be applied to social ontology, especially for conferred kinds, in the context of action explanation and prediction by comparing this view with various realist views. Chapter 1 is concerned with clarifying constitution accounts and the criteria for comparison. Chapter 2 gives three different kinds of problems against this realist view, which makes this view less credible. Chapter 3 introduces conferralist accounts. Chapter 4 will deal with the question of whether conferralist accounts can solve these problems. I will argue that even if the second problem is solved, the first and third problems still arise in conferralism. In Chapter 5, I propose a fictionalist social ontology. Thus, in Chapter 6, I argue that social fictionalism solves the problems in question. | |
| dc.description.degree | M.A. | |
| dc.description.statementofresponsibility | by Erim Bakkal | |
| dc.format.extent | vii, 55 leaves ; 30 cm. | |
| dc.identifier.itemid | B112420 | |
| dc.identifier.uri | https://hdl.handle.net/11693/115213 | |
| dc.language.iso | English | |
| dc.rights | info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess | |
| dc.subject | Social ontology | |
| dc.subject | Fictionalist social ontology | |
| dc.subject | Constitution accounts | |
| dc.subject | Conferred accounts | |
| dc.subject | Social kinds | |
| dc.title | A fictionalist social ontology | |
| dc.title.alternative | Kurgusalcı toplumsal ontoloji | |
| dc.type | Thesis |