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The aim of this series is to inform both professional philosophers and a larger readership (of social and natural scientists, methodologists, mathematicians, students, teachers, publishers, etc.
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Jaakko Hintikka, the philosopher who is famous for many innovations in philosophy, logic and linguistics, replies to 29 original critical essays.
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Jaakko Hintikka
5: Inquiry as Inquiry: A Logic of Scientific DiscoveryIn the essays collected here, Hintikka both defends and outlines a genuine logic of scientific discovery, the logic of questions and answers.
Aristotle thought of his logic and methodology as applications of the Socratic questioning method. Aristotle thus serves as an example of a thinker who did not rely on the distinction…
Proceedings of the Colloquium on the Philosophy of Ludwig Wittgenstein, Florida State University, August 7-8, 1989
Some of the older papers in this collection, especially ‘Quantification and Modality’ and ‘Modes of Modality’, serve to clarify some of the main possibilities in the semantics of modal logics…
The leisure to do the thinking whose results are gathered here has largely been provided by the Academy of Finland, whose support has also made possible the help and co-operation…
Metaphor is one of the most frequently evoked and also a poorly understood concept in philosophy and literary theory. Over the years, several interesting approaches to metaphor have been presented…
Discussions of the foundations of mathematics and their history are frequently restricted to logical issues in a narrow sense, or else to traditional problems of analytic philosophy.
Collingwood saw one of the main tasks of philosophers and of historians of human thought in uncovering what he called the ultimate presuppositions of different thinkers, of different philosophical movements…
One can distinguish, roughly speaking, two different approaches to the philosophy of mathematics. On the other hand, some philosophers, logicians and mathematicians have tried or are trying to subject the…
Several of the basic ideas of current language theory are subjected to critical scrutiny and found wanting, including the concept of scope, the hegemony of generative syntax, the Frege-Russell claim…
Is a genuine logic of scientific discovery possible? Using this new logic, Hintikka establishes a result that will undoubtedly be considered the fundamental theorem of all epistemology, viz., the virtual…
Wittgenstein was far too impatient to explain in his books and book drafts what his problems were, what it was that he was trying to get clear about. For one…
If he does not know in some detail what kind of pass Thermopylae is or on what sort of ridge the battle of Bussaco was fought, he has no business…
Jaakko Hintikka (Boston University)
Most current work in epistemology deals with the evaluation and justification of information already acquired. In this book, Jaakko Hintikka instead discusses the more important problem of how knowledge is…
This book, written by one of philosophy’s pre-eminent logicians, argues that many of the basic assumptions common to logic, philosophy of mathematics and metaphysics are in need of change. Jaakko…
Semantic Representationalism, Logical Dialogues, Knowledge and Epistemic logic are among some of the topics covered in this book’s chapters.The book should appeal to students, scholars and teachers who wish to…
He has made significant contributions to virtually all areas of the discipline, from epistemology and the philosophy of logic to the history of philosophy and the philosophy of science. This…
Jaakko Hintikka,Merrill B.P. Hintikka
somewhat like Henkin’s nonstandard interpretation of higher-order logics, while the right semantics [or logical modalities is an analogue to the standard of type theory in Henkin’s sense. interpretation Another possibility…
Elisabeth Rigal
Ce recueil d'etudes est consacre a l'analyse de l'oeuvre de Jaakko Hintikka et a la discussion de ses theses. Il comporte trois textes signes par Hintikka lui-meme et s'organise autour…
Les Principes des mathematiques revisites de Jaakko Hintikka sont l'une des contributions les plus importantes des vingt dernieres annees a la philosophie des mathematiques. Son titre, inspire des celebres Principes…
In the last 25 years, the concept of information has played a crucial role in communication theory, so much so that the terms information theory and communication theory are sometimes…
Frege and Russell claimed that a verb like ‘is’ or'esti’ is ambiguous between the ‘is’ of identity, the ‘is’ of existence, the copulative ‘is’, and the generic ‘is’ (the ‘is’…
cake, even though it is typically given the pride of place in expositions in Frege’s semantics. As a part of this attempted reversal of emphasis, Jaakko Hintikka has also called…
It is gratifying to see that philosophers’ continued interest in Words and Objections has been so strong as to motivate a paperback edition. This is gratifying because it vindicates the…
Jaakko Hintikka,U. Remes
As official sponsors of the First International Conference in the History and Philosophy of Science, the two Divisions of the International Union of the History and Philosophy of Science owe…
Communication is one of the most challenging human phenomena, and the same is true of its paradigmatic verbal realization as a dialogue.
