Jaakko Hintikka
Jaakko Hintikka ( 12 January, 1949 – ) is an eminent logician and philosopher, born in Vantaa, Finland and currently a full professor at Boston University. He won the 2005 Rolf Schock prize in logic and philosophy for for his pioneering contributions to the logical analysis of modal concepts, in particular the concepts of knowledge and belief. He is regarded as the founder of formal epistemic logic, and an early pioneer in the semantics of modal logic who proposed a formal semantics essentially analogous to Kripke's frame semantics. He is currently working most intensively on his independence-friendly logic, a logic that he maintains reflects fundamental intuitions about quantifiers better than first-order logic does, and is specified by means of its game semantics. He has provided important exegetical work of Ludwig Wittgenstein.
Dr. Hintikka is an extremely prolific writer and is the author or co-author of over thirty books and over 300 scholarly articles in mathematical and philosophical logic, epistemology, language theory, and philosophy of science. His works have appeared in over 9 languages. He has been an editor of the academic journal Synthese (ISSN 0039–7857) since 1982 as well as a consultant editor of over ten journals.
He was the first vice-president of the Fédération Internationale des Sociétés de Philosophie, the Vice-President of the Institut International de Philosophie (1993–1996), as well as a member of the American Philosophical Association, the International Union of of History and Philosophy of Science, Association for Symbolic Logic, and a member of the governing board of the Philosophy of Science Association.
Selected publications
- The Principles of Mathematics Revisited. ISBN 0521624983
- Paradigms for Language Theory and Other Essays ISBN 0792347803
- Lingua Universalis vs. Calculus Ratiocinator ISBN 0792342461
- Inquiry as Inquiry: A Logic of Scientific Discovery ISBN 079235477X
- Language, Truth and Logic in Mathematics ISBN 0792347668
- Ludwig Wittgenstein : Half-Truths and One-and-a-Half-Truths ISBN 0792340914
- Analyses of Aristotle ISBN 1402020406
- The Logic of Epistemology and the Epistemology of Logic ISBN 0792300408
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