Jaakko Hintikka
Jaakko Hintikka (born January 12, 1929 in Vantaa , † August 12, 2015 in Porvoo ) was a Finnish philosopher . He was considered an expert in various areas of mathematical logic and game theory and the philosophy of mathematics , epistemology and philosophy of science , metaphysics , as well as various other philosophical specialties and historical problem contexts, including theories of Aristotle , René Descartes and Ludwig Wittgenstein .
Life
Hintikka received his doctorate in 1953 under Georg Henrik von Wright . From 1956 to 1959 he was a Junior Fellow at Harvard and after stays in Helsinki, Florida and Stanford, he was Professor of Philosophy at Boston University from 1990 onwards .
His area of interest was broad and ranged from early work on distributive normal forms to model theory , a possible world semantics, deontic logic and intensive, analytically trained occupation with various topics of theoretical philosophy, including modality, time and scientific methodology . With his book Knowledge and Belief from 1962 he developed one of the first formal languages in epistemic logic. His concern was to define the logical backgrounds of statements of knowledge and belief more precisely. Hintikka also developed what is known as interrogative logic .
Honors
- John Locke Lectureship, Oxford (1964)
- Member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences (1974)
- Wihuri International Prize (1976)
- Guggenheim Fellowship (1979-80)
- Hägerström Lectureship, Uppsala (1983)
- Immanuel Kant Lectureship, Stanford (1985)
- Rolf Schock Prize in Philosophy (2005)
Hintikka also received honorary doctorates from the Universities of Liège (1984), Krakow (1995), Uppsala (2000), Oulu (2002) and Turku.
Like other philosophers, Hintikka is honored by Daniel Dennett in his Philosophical Lexicon , because Dennett came up with a joking definition:
hintikka , n. A measure of belief, the smallest logically discernible difference between beliefs. "He argued with me all night, but did not alter my beliefs one hintikka."
Dennett is referring to Hintikka's fundamental book Knowledge and Belief .
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 Ratiocinator ISBN 0-7923-4246-1
- Inquiry as Inquiry: A Logic of Scientific Discovery ISBN 0-7923-5477-X
- Language, Truth and Logic in Mathematics (Selected Papers, Vol. 3), Dordrecht [u. a.]: Kluwer 1998, ISBN 0-7923-4766-8
- Ludwig Wittgenstein : Half-Truths and One-and-a-Half-Truths ISBN 0-7923-4091-4
- Analyzes 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 on Wittgenstein , Frankfurt am Main: Suhrkamp 1990, ISBN 3-518-57980-0 (translation from 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
literature
- Carl Friedrich Gethmann : Hintikka in: Jürgen Mittelstraß: Encyclopedia Philosophy and Philosophy of Science. Second edition. Volume 3, Metzler 2008 ISBN 978-3-476-02102-1 pp. 403-405.
- Randall E. Auxier, Lewis E. Hahn (eds.): The philosophy of Jaakko Hintikka (The library of living philosophers; 30). Open Court Books, Chicago, Ill. 2006, ISBN 0-8126-9462-7 .
Web links
- Literature by and about Jaakko Hintikka in the catalog of the German National Library
- Hintikka's own website
- Filosofi Jaakko Hintikka on kuollut
Individual evidence
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Hintikka, Jaakko |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Hintikka, Jaakko J. |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Finnish philosopher |
| DATE OF BIRTH | January 12, 1929 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Vantaa , Finland |
| DATE OF DEATH | August 12, 2015 |
| Place of death | Porvoo , Finland |