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EXPLORING SCIENTIFIC REALISM THROUGH HASOK CHANG’S ACTIVE REALISM Özkan , Bora; Baç, Mutlu Murat; Department of Philosophy (2025-12-11) The gist of scientific pluralism is that natural phenomena cannot be comprehensively understood through a reductionist approach alone. Instead, explaining such phenomena requires the application and interpretation of multiple, coexisting perspectives. Based on this view, this thesis investigates the original contributions of Hasok Chang to contemporary philosophy of science, particularly his defense of a pluralist-realist position. He revisits the longstanding conflict between traditional realism and anti-r...
Yarenlik (Student Union Magazine, 1967) (1967)
METU Student Union Publications Students at METU (Middle East Technical University) published newspapers under the umbrella of the Student Union. ARGOSY (March 9, 1959 - early 1960s) and CAMPUS OBSERVER (between 1962-1965) were in English. Later, ODTÜ newspapers were published in Turkish (October 1967-1968), and again starting from issue 1 (November 1968-1970). The archive also contains a mimeographed 'magazine' called YARENLİK. Examining the newspapers page by page allows one to learn about the history of METU student groups and encounte...
METU Newspaper (Year 2 (Issue 7), January 1970) (1970)
METU Newspaper (Year 2 (Issue 5), August 1969) (1969)
METU Newspaper (Year 1 (Issue 6), April 1968) (1968)
METU Newspaper (Year 1 (Issue 5), January 1968) (1968)
METU Newspaper (Year 1 (Issue 4), December, 1968) (1968)
METU Newspaper (Year 1 (Issue 3), December, 1968) (1968)
METU Newspaper (Year 1 (Issue 2), November 1967) (1967)
METU Newspaper (Year 1 (Issue 1), October, 1967) (1967)
METU Newspaper (Year 1 (Issues 1-2), November 1968) (1968)
The Campus Observer (METU Student Publication, Year 5, Issue 2, January 11, 1965) (1965)
The Campus Observer (METU Student Publication, Year 4, Issue 1, December 10, 1964) (1964)
Historical Entropy and the Zeitgeist of the Age: A Comparative Analysis of 20th Century Fascism and 21st Century Far-Right Aslan, Asya Gül; Tayfur, Mehmet Fatih; Department of International Relations (2025-12-9) This study investigates the political, economic, and social conditions that facilitated the rise of fascism in the interwar period and systematically compares them with the contemporary dynamics shaping populist far-right movements. It argues that despite profound contextual differences, striking parallels—ranging from socioeconomic precarity and intensified social fragmentation to crises of political legitimacy— continue to structure both historical moments. These resonances suggest not a direct recurrence...
The role of Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank in the context of China's relationship with the liberal International order: A challenge or an opportunity? Görmez, Görkem; Tayfur, Mehmet Fatih; Department of International Relations (2025-12-9) Driven mainly by massive foreign direct investments, export-led and innovation based economic structure, China has experienced double-digit economic growth numbers in the last decades, making it the second largest economy in terms of Gross Domestic Production (GDP) just before the USA. In parallel with its increasing political and economic gravity, Chinas dissatisfaction with the Liberal International Order has considerably intensified, leading it to found the Asia Infrastructure Investment Bank (AIIB)...
Economic and political dimensions of China’s relations with Sub-Saharan Africa: The Zambian case Çuhadar, Nisa Nehir; Tayfur, Mehmet Fatih; Department of International Relations (2025-12-9) This thesis analyzes China’s relations with Sub-Saharan Africa and examines Zambia as a case study to understand the dynamics of this engagement. It explores the historical background and current structure of Zambia’s economic relations with China, tracing how Zambia’s dependence on copper, its debt crises, and its need for development have shaped its interaction with China from independence to the present. The study investigates Chinese investments, loans, and infrastructure projects and evaluates their ef...
RESISTANCE WITHOUT INSTITUTION: READING THE PROCESS OF IRANIAN WOMEN’S RESISTANCE AGAINST THE OBLIGATORY HIJAB THROUGH FOUCAULDIAN POWER AND BUTLER’S SUBVERSIVE REPETITION Rastgarkarimi, Saba; Karademir, Aret; Sarıgöl Gürkan, Pınar; Department of Gender and Women's Studies (2025-12-9) This study aimed to examine the process of Iranian women’s resistance against the obligatory hijab after the 1979 Revolution. Iranian women's resistance against the obligatory hijab Law had ups and downs. It led to the uprising of “Women, Life, Freedom”, which was followed by critical social transformations. The resistance, as the subject of scrutiny in this study, is a resistance without institution; that is, individual resistances interwoven in women’s daily lives. To examine the nature of the gradu...
Unpacking The Link Between Schizotypy And Somatic Anxiety: The Mediating Role of Cognitive Anxiety Bıçakcı, Ozan; Gençöz, Faruk; Özkurt, Tolga Esat; Department of Psychology (2025-12-9) This thesis conceptualizes negative and positive schizotypy not as subclinical phenomena, but as distinct strategies to compensate for the loose knotting of the Real, Symbolic, and Imaginary registers. The study investigated whether these two modes of compensation follow differential pathways to somatic anxiety, which is defined here as the direct experience of unmediated jouissance. Path analysis was used to test the relationships between schizotypy, cognitive anxiety, somatic anxiety, and primary process ...
The Campus Observer (METU Student Publication, Year 3, Issue 8, June 4, 1964) (1964)