Varol Akman

 

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Varol Akman

 

 

 

 

 

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

Affiliation

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 John Perry & Donald Davidson
bulletSocial Aspects of the Internet - Read this First Monday

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

Obligatory Erdös Number

It is 5. Click here for details.

Contact Information

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 2901537 (CS) [let them ring many times]
Department Secretary
90 312    2901072 (PHIL) or 2901218 (CS)
FAX
90 312    2901074 (PHIL) or 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