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Dr. Akman is the chair of the Department of Philosophy and a professor in the
Department of Computer Engineering.
His interests lie in the following areas: artificial intelligence, natural
language semantics, pragmatics, logic, philosophy of language, philosophy of
mind.
Recent Publications
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V. Akman, Situational semantics, in Key Ideas in Linguistics
and the Philosophy of Language, S. Chapman and C. Routledge, eds.,
Edinburgh University Press, 209-212 (2009)
- V. Akman, Situated semantics, in The Cambridge Handbook of
Situated Cognition, P. Robbins and M. Aydede, eds., Cambridge
University Press, 401-418 (2009)
- V. Akman, Varol Akman on the Turkish war against mediocrity and
cliché, The Philosophers' Magazine 44: 42-44 (2009) [invited
letter]
- V. Akman, On a proposal of Strawson concerning context vs. 'what is
said,' in Perspectives on Contexts, P. Bouquet, L. Serafini, and R.H.
Thomason, eds., CSLI Lecture Notes 180, Stanford, 79-94 (2008)
- V. Akman, Relational
priming: obligational nitpicking, Behavioral & Brain Sciences
31(4): 378-379 (2008)
- V. Akman, Similar situations, in Context and Appropriateness:
Micro Meets Macro, A. Fetzer, ed., John Benjamins, 31-54 (2007)
- V. Akman, Identity; Logical connectives;
Vagueness, in Continuum Encyclopedia of British Philosophy, A.
Grayling, A. Pyle, and N. Goulder, eds., Thoemmes Continuum,
1610-1611, 1939-1940,
3260-3261 (2006)
- V. Akman, Situation
semantics, in Encyclopedia of Language and Linguistics (2nd
edition), K. Brown, ed., Elsevier, 398-401 (2006)
- V. Akman, On Strawsonian contexts, Pragmatics & Cognition
13(2): 363-382 (2005)
- V.
Akman, Reading McDermott,
Artificial Intelligence 151(1-2): 227-235 (2003) [book review]
- V. Akman, C. Bazzanella, The complexity of context: guest editors'
introduction, Journal of Pragmatics 35(3): 321-329 (2003)
- A.P. Saygin, I. Cicekli, V. Akman, Turing test: 50 years later, in The Turing
Test: The Elusive Standard of Artificial Intelligence, J.H. Moor,
ed., Kluwer Academic, 23-78 (2003)
Education
| School |
Degree |
Date |
| Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute |
Ph.D. (Computer Engineering) |
1985 |
| Middle East Technical University |
M.S. (Computer Engineering) |
1980 |
| Middle East Technical University |
B.S. (Electrical Engineering) |
1979 |
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