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Jaakko J. Hintikka

LOCATION: Boston, MA, United States


Jakko Hintikka was a Professor of Philosophy at Boston University. He was 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.


Author of Philosophy of Mathematics (Readings in Philosophy) (1969); Logic, Language-Games and Information: Kantian Themes in the Philosophy of Logic (1972); On Godel (1999); Socratic Epistemology: Explorations of Knowledge-Seeking by Questioning (2007).

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Philosophy of logic, the study, from a philosophical perspective, of the nature and types of logic, including problems in the field and the relation of logic to mathematics and other disciplines. The term logic comes from the Greek word logos. The variety of senses that logos possesses may suggest…
Publications (2)
On Godel (Wadsworth Philosophers Series)
On Godel (Wadsworth Philosophers Series) (1999)
By Jaakko Hintikka
This brief text assists students in understanding Godel's philosophy and thinking so that they can more fully engage in useful, intelligent class dialogue and improve their understanding of course content. Part of the "Wadsworth Philosophers Series," (which will eventually consist of approximately 100 titles, each focusing on a single "thinker" from ancient times to the present), ON GÖDEL is written by a philosopher deeply versed in the philosophy of this key thinker. Like other books in the series,…
The philosophy of mathematics (Oxford readings in philosophy)
The philosophy of mathematics (Oxford readings in philosophy) (1969)
By Jaakko Hintikka
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