Jaakko Hintikka

Jaakko Hintikka ( born January 12, 1929 in Vantaa ) is a Finnish philosopher and is considered an expert in various areas of mathematical logic and game theory and the philosophy of mathematics, epistemology and philosophy of science, metaphysics, and also for various other philosophical areas of expertise and historical problem contexts including theories of Aristotle, René Descartes, and Ludwig Wittgenstein.

Life

Hintikka his doctorate in 1953 with Georg Henrik von Wright. 1956 - 1959 he was a Junior Fellow at Harvard and after stays in Helsinki, Florida and Stanford, he is since 1990 professor of philosophy at Boston University. His area of ​​interest is broad and goes from early work on distributive normal forms on model theory, a possible world semantics, a deontic logic to the intensive, analytically trained dealing with various topics of theoretical philosophy, including modality, time, or science methodology. In his book Knowledge and Belief of 1962, he developed one of the first formal languages ​​in epistemic logic. His concern was about to define the logical background of knowledge and belief statements in more detail. Hintikka also develops a so-called Interrogativlogik.

Honors

  • John Locke Lectureship, Oxford ( 1964)
  • Wihuri International Prize (1976 )
  • Guggenheim Fellowship ( 1979-80 )
  • Hägerström Lectureship, Uppsala (1983 )
  • Immanuel Kant Lectureship, Stanford (1985 )
  • Rolf Schock Prize for Logic and Philosophy (2005)

In addition, Hintikka honorary doctorate at the University of Liège ( 1984), Krakow (1995 ), Uppsala (2000), Oulu (2002) and Turku.

Like other philosophers, including Hintikka by Daniel Dennett is honored in the Philosophical Lexicon, by Dennett himself devised a humorous definition:

Hintikka, n A measure of belief, the smallest discernible difference in between Logically beliefs. " He argued with me all night, but did not alter my beliefs one Hintikka. "

Dennett alluding to Hintikka's Knowledge and Belief basic book.

Works (selection)

  • The Principles of Mathematics Revisited ISBN 0-521-62498-3
  • Paradigms for Language Theory and Other Essays ISBN 0-7923-4780-3
  • Lingua Universalis vs. Calculus ISBN 0-7923-4246-1 Ratiocinator
  • Inquiry as Inquiry: A Logic of Scientific Discovery ISBN 0-7923-5477 -X
  • Language, Truth and Logic in Mathematics ( Selected Papers, vol 3), Dordrecht [ ua]: Kluwer 1998, ISBN 0-7923-4766-8
  • Ludwig Wittgenstein: Half- Truths and One -and-a - Half- Truths ISBN 0-7923-4091-4
  • Analyses of Aristotle ISBN 1-4020-2040-6
  • The Logic of Epistemology and the Epistemology of Logic ISBN 0-7923-0040-8
  • With Merrill B. Hintikka: Investigations Wittgenstein, Frankfurt am Main: Suhrkamp, 1990, ISBN 3-518-57980-0 ( Übers of Investigating Wittgenstein)
  • Knowledge and Belief: An Introduction to the Logic of the Two Notions, Cornell University Press, 1962
  • Kant on the Mathematical Method. In: The Monist, 51, 1967, pp. 352-375.
  • Time and necessity: studies in Aristotle's theory of modality, Oxford: Clarendon Press 1973
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