Bakkal, Erim2024-06-262024-06-262024-052024-052024-06-14https://hdl.handle.net/11693/115213Cataloged from PDF version of article.Thesis (Master's): Bilkent University, Department of Philosophy, İhsan Doğramacı Bilkent University, 2024.Includes bibliographical references (leaves 48-55).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.vii, 55 leaves ; 30 cm.Englishinfo:eu-repo/semantics/openAccessSocial ontologyFictionalist social ontologyConstitution accountsConferred accountsSocial kindsThesisB112420