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'''Varol Akman''' (born 8 Jun 1957, ], ]) is professor of Computer Engineering and chairperson of the Philosophy Department at ], ], Turkey. | ||
| Prior to joining Bilkent, he held a senior researcher position with ] (1986–1988), and a visiting position with ] (1985–1986), both in the Netherlands. During the period 1980–1985, Akman was a Fulbright scholar at ], NY, where he received a PhD degree in computer and systems engineering. | |||
| Akman's research is concentrated in theoretical areas of artificial intelligence and philosophy, especially logical foundations of AI, commonsense reasoning, and pragmatics. In general, he tries to adhere to the following observation of John McCarthy: "AI cannot avoid philosophy. If a computer program is to behave intelligently in the real world, then it must be provided with some kind of framework into which to fit particular facts it is told or discovers. This amounts to at least a fragment of some kind of philosophy, however naive." | Akman's research is concentrated in theoretical areas of artificial intelligence and philosophy, especially logical foundations of AI, commonsense reasoning, and pragmatics. In general, he tries to adhere to the following observation of John McCarthy: "AI cannot avoid philosophy. If a computer program is to behave intelligently in the real world, then it must be provided with some kind of framework into which to fit particular facts it is told or discovers. This amounts to at least a fragment of some kind of philosophy, however naive." | ||
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| Varol Akman is an interesting and influential figure in the development of analytic philosophy in Turkey. Though he comes from an engineering background, he was the main author of the foundation of Bilkent University Philosophy Department in 2002, which is one of the first analytic philosophy departments in the history of Turkish Republic, and the only surviving analytic institution at present. Since the previous attempts to establish a firm tradition of analytic philosophy have arguably failed in Turkey (Bogazici University and Metu Philosophy Departments, 1982), Varol Akman concentrated his efforts on preserving the analytic spirit within the department by hiring only foreign professors and strictly implementing the model of the Ivy League universities in the US. The B.A. program founded by him is expected to give first graduates by the end of 2006-2007 academic year. | Varol Akman is an interesting and influential figure in the development of analytic philosophy in Turkey. Though he comes from an engineering background, he was the main author of the foundation of Bilkent University Philosophy Department in 2002, which is one of the first analytic philosophy departments in the history of Turkish Republic, and the only surviving analytic institution at present. Since the previous attempts to establish a firm tradition of analytic philosophy have arguably failed in Turkey (Bogazici University and Metu Philosophy Departments, 1982), Varol Akman concentrated his efforts on preserving the analytic spirit within the department by hiring only foreign professors and strictly implementing the model of the Ivy League universities in the US. The B.A. program founded by him is expected to give first graduates by the end of 2006-2007 academic year. | ||
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Varol Akman (born 8 Jun 1957, Antalya, Turkey) is professor of Computer Engineering and chairperson of the Philosophy Department at Bilkent University, Ankara, Turkey.
Prior to joining Bilkent, he held a senior researcher position with Centrum voor Wiskunde en Informatica (1986–1988), and a visiting position with Universiteit Utrecht (1985–1986), both in the Netherlands. During the period 1980–1985, Akman was a Fulbright scholar at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, NY, where he received a PhD degree in computer and systems engineering.
Akman's research is concentrated in theoretical areas of artificial intelligence and philosophy, especially logical foundations of AI, commonsense reasoning, and pragmatics. In general, he tries to adhere to the following observation of John McCarthy: "AI cannot avoid philosophy. If a computer program is to behave intelligently in the real world, then it must be provided with some kind of framework into which to fit particular facts it is told or discovers. This amounts to at least a fragment of some kind of philosophy, however naive."
Varol Akman is an interesting and influential figure in the development of analytic philosophy in Turkey. Though he comes from an engineering background, he was the main author of the foundation of Bilkent University Philosophy Department in 2002, which is one of the first analytic philosophy departments in the history of Turkish Republic, and the only surviving analytic institution at present. Since the previous attempts to establish a firm tradition of analytic philosophy have arguably failed in Turkey (Bogazici University and Metu Philosophy Departments, 1982), Varol Akman concentrated his efforts on preserving the analytic spirit within the department by hiring only foreign professors and strictly implementing the model of the Ivy League universities in the US. The B.A. program founded by him is expected to give first graduates by the end of 2006-2007 academic year.