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Jaakko Hintikka was a Finnish philosopher who developed important new methods and systems in mathematical and philosophical logic.
Hintikka's Views on Perception.- On Objects and Worlds of Thought in the Philosophy of Hintikka.- Hintikka on Modalities and Determinism in Aristotle.-.

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Jaakko Hintikka

Interests: Philosophy of Language, Mathematical and Philosophical Logic, Epistemology, Philosophy of Science (including Cognitive Science), Philosophy of Mathematics, History of Philosophy (Aristotle, Descartes, Kant, Peirce, Wittgenstein)

After a sojourn at Harvard as a Junior Fellow (1956-59), Jaakko Hintikka held professorial appointments at the University of Helsinki, the Academy of Finland, and Florida State University. From 1965 to 1982 Dr. Hintikka was also associated with Stanford University, and in 1990 joined Boston University.

Dr. Hintikka is known as the main architect of game-theoretical semantics and of the interrogative approach to inquiry, and also as one of the architects of distributive normal forms, possible-worlds semantics, tree methods, infinitely deep logics, and the present-day theory of inductive generalization. He has authored or co-authored over 30 books and monographs that have appeared in nine languages. Five volumes of his Selected Papers (Kluwer Academic) appeared in 1996-2003. Jaakko Hintikka has edited or co-edited 17 volumes

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Jaakko Hintikka

Finnish philosopher and logician

Kaarlo Jaakko Juhani Hintikka (; Finnish:[ˈhintikːɑ]; 12 January 1929 – 12 August 2015) was a Finnish philosopher and logician. Hintikka is regarded as the founder of formal epistemic logic and of game semantics for logic.

Life and career

Hintikka was born in Helsingin maalaiskunta (now Vantaa).

In 1953, he received his doctorate from the University of Helsinki for a thesis entitled Distributive Normal Forms in the Calculus of Predicates. He was a student of Georg Henrik von Wright.

Hintikka was a Junior Fellow at Harvard University (1956-1969), and held several professorial appointments at the University of Helsinki, the Academy of Finland, Stanford University, Florida State University and finally Boston 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 to mathematical logic, philosophical logic, the philosophy of mathematics, epistemology, language theory, and the philosophy of science. His