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 Jaakko Hintikka in 2003 | |
| Born | Jaakko Kaarlo Juhani Hintikka (1929-01-12)12 January 1929 Helsingin maalaiskunta, Finland |
| Died | 12 August 2015(2015-08-12) (aged 86) Porvoo, Finland |
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| Education | University of Helsinki (Ph.D., 1953) |
| Thesis | Distributive Normal Forms in the Calculus of Predicates (1953) |
| Doctoral advisor | Georg Henrik von Wright |
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| Era | 20th-century philosophy |
| Region | Western philosophy |
| School | Analytic philosophy |
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Kaarlo Jaakko Juhani Hintikka (/ˈhɪntɪkə/;Finnish:[ˈhintikːɑ]; 12 January 1929 – 12 August 2015) was a Finnishphilosopher andlogician. Hintikka is regarded as the founder of formalepistemic logic and ofgame semantics for logic.
Hintikka was born inHelsingin maalaiskunta (now Vantaa) on 12 January 1929.
In 1953, he received his doctorate from theUniversity of Helsinki for a thesis entitledDistributive Normal Forms in theCalculus of Predicates. He was a student ofGeorg Henrik von Wright.
Hintikka was a Junior Fellow atHarvard University (1956–1969), and held several professorial appointments at the University of Helsinki, the Academy of Finland,Stanford University,Florida State University and finallyBoston University from 1990 until his death.[1] He was the prolific author or co-author of over 30 books and over 300 scholarly articles, Hintikka contributed tomathematical logic,philosophical logic, thephilosophy of mathematics,epistemology,language theory, and thephilosophy of science. His works have appeared in over nine languages.
Hintikka edited theacademic journalSynthese from 1962 to 2002, and was a consultant editor for more than ten journals. He was the first vice-president of theFédération Internationale des Sociétés de Philosophie, the vice-president of theInstitut International de Philosophie (1993–1996), as well as a member of theAmerican Philosophical Association, theInternational Union of History and Philosophy of Science,Association for Symbolic Logic, and a member of the governing board of thePhilosophy of Science Association. In 2005, he won theRolf Schock Prize in logic and philosophy "for his pioneering contributions to the logical analysis of modal concepts, in particular the concepts of knowledge and belief". In 1985, he was president of theFlorida Philosophical Association.
He was a member of theNorwegian Academy of Science and Letters.[2] On May 26, 2000, Hintikka received anhonorary doctorate from the Faculty of History and Philosophy atUppsala University,Sweden[3]
Early in his career, he devised asemantics of modal logic essentially analogous toSaul Kripke'sframe semantics, and discovered the now widely taughtsemantic tableau, independently ofEvert Willem Beth. Later, he worked mainly on game semantics, and onindependence-friendly logic, known for its "branching quantifiers", which he believed do better justice to our intuitions aboutquantifiers than does conventionalfirst-order logic. He did important exegetical work onAristotle,Immanuel Kant,Ludwig Wittgenstein, andCharles Sanders Peirce. Hintikka's work can be seen as a continuation of the analytic tendency in philosophy founded byFranz Brentano and Peirce, advanced byGottlob Frege andBertrand Russell, and continued byRudolf Carnap,Willard Van Orman Quine, and by Hintikka's teacherGeorg Henrik von Wright. In 1998, for instance, he wroteThe Principles of Mathematics Revisited, which takes an exploratory stance comparable to that Russell adopted in hisThe Principles of Mathematics in 1903.
For a bibliography, see Auxier and Hahn (2006).
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