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			'''Varol Akman''' (born 8 June 1957, ], ]) is Professor of Computer Engineering in ], Ankara.<ref>{{cite web\|url=http://www.cs.bilkent.edu.tr/~akman/\| title= Varol Akman \|publisher=Bilkent University\|accessdate=2019-07-19}}</ref>
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			An academic of engineering background, Akman obtained his B.A in Electrical Engineering from the ] in Ankara. He then continued his graduate studies and obtained his Ph.D. from ] under the tutelage of influential logician William Randolph Franklin.
	'''Varol Akman''' (born 8 Jun 1957, ], ]) professor of Computer Engineering and chairperson of the Philosophy Department at ], ], Turkey.

			Among his research interests are artificial intelligence, linguistics, social aspects of the Internet, Donald Davidson's philosophy and pragmatics. His articles have been published in journals such as Pragmatics and Cognition, Computational Intelligence, Minds and Machines, and Language and Communication.
	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.

			He was influential in the founding of the Department of Philosophy in Bilkent University.

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Varol Akman (born 8 June 1957, Antalya, Turkey) is Professor of Computer Engineering in Bilkent University, Ankara.

An academic of engineering background, Akman obtained his B.A in Electrical Engineering from the Middle East Technical University in Ankara. He then continued his graduate studies and obtained his Ph.D. from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute under the tutelage of influential logician William Randolph Franklin.

Among his research interests are artificial intelligence, linguistics, social aspects of the Internet, Donald Davidson's philosophy and pragmatics. His articles have been published in journals such as Pragmatics and Cognition, Computational Intelligence, Minds and Machines, and Language and Communication.

He was influential in the founding of the Department of Philosophy in Bilkent University.

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