Varol Akman

 

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Online Papers

The most important things are a person's values and beliefs, and what they care about. Caring is the difference between you and a rock or a chair.  -JOHN PERRY 

Professor of Computer Engineering (CS) and Chair, Department of Philosophy (PHIL)

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Research Interests

bullet Artificial Intelligence
bulletContext
bulletSTASS
bullet Pragmatics
bulletPhilosophical works of Picture of John Perry & Picture of the late Donald Davidson
bulletSocial Aspects of the Internet - Read this

Ancestors

This is from Josh Dever's amazing The Philosophy Family Tree:

bulletAkman, Varol (student of)
bulletFranklin, William Randolph (student of)
bulletLewis, Harry R. (student of)
bulletDreben, Burton (student of)
bulletQuine, W. V. O. (student of)
bulletWhitehead, Alfred (student of)
bulletMcTaggart, John (student of)
bulletWard, James (student of)
bulletLotze, Hermann (student of)
bulletWeisse, Christian Hermann

Contact Information

How to find me during work hours: Usually I'm either in my PHIL office (FA bldg, room 115B) or in my CS office (EA bldg, room 503)

Telephone
90 312 2903349 (PHIL) or 90 312 2901537 (CS) [let them ring many times]
Department Secretary
90 312  2901072 (PHIL) or 90 312 2901218 (CS)
FAX
90 312 2901074 (PHIL) or 90 312 2664047 (CS) [c/o Akman]
Postal address
Departments of Computer Engineering and Philosophy, Bilkent University, Bilkent, Ankara 06800, Turkey
Electronic mail
"I don't even have an e-mail address. I have reached an age where my main purpose is not to receive messages," Umberto Eco once quipped. Well, not so in my case... If you have comments click here.

 

Last modified: 07/09/08