The Concept of Knowledge: The Ankara Seminar

by İoanna Kuçuradi (Editor), Robert S. Cohen

In relation to the problems faced today, in contemplation and in practical affairs, philosophers must confront the question What is knowledge?', and consider whether knowledge has lost its object. Such was the problem placed before the seminar convened by the Philosophical Society of Turkey at Ankara in 1989. The 17 papers derived from the lectures and discussions deal with problems of knowing and believing, of the kinds and criteria of knowledge, of truth and fallibility, and of the cultural as well as individual factors in cognition. The authors include Guido Kung, L. Jonathan Cohen, Ernest Sosa, Arda Denkel, Venant Cauchy, David Evans, Gurol Irzik, Ioanna Kucuradi, Evandro Agazzi, Richard T. DeGeorge, Kwasi Wiredu, Teo Grunberg, H. Odera Oruka, Jindrich Zeleny, V.A. Lektorsky, Anna-Teresa Tymieniecka, and Francisco Miro Quesada. There is a critical and analytical Prologue by the convener of the Seminar, Ioanna Kucuradi.

304 pages, Hardcover

First published July 1, 1995

About the author

Prof. Kuçuradi was born on 4 October 1936 in Istanbul, Turkey. After studies in Philosophy at Istanbul University, she graduated with a Ph.D. in 1965. Ioanna Kuçuradi has been working as an Assistant Professor at the University of Istanbul and the Atatürk University in Erzurum. She was Founder and Head of the Department of Philosophy at Hacettepe University where she also taught as Professor of Philosophy. From 1997 to 2005, Prof. Kuçuradi was Founding Director of the Centre for Research and Application of the Philosophy of Human Rights at Hacattepe University. She is also Holder ofa UNESCO Chair of Philosophy since 1998. Since 2006, Prof. Kuçuradi teaches philosophy and acts as Director of the Centre for Research and Application of Human Rights at Maltepe University.