Jaakko Hintikka

388 Pages·1987·23.882 MB·English

by  Jaakko Hintikka (auth.), Radu J. Bogdan (eds.)

JAAKKO HINTIKKA
PROFILES
AN INTERNATIONAL SERIES
ON CONTEMPORARY PHILOSOPHERS
AND LOGICIANS
EDITORS
RADU J. BOGDAN, Tulane University
ILKKA NIINILUOTO, University of Helsinki
EDITORIAL BOARD
D. F0LLESDAL, University of Oslo
s. K b R N E R, University of Bristol
J. J. C. SMART, Australian National University
w. STEGMULLER, Universitiit MUllchen
P. SUPPES, Stanford University
K. SZANIA WSKI, University of Warsaw
J. VUILLEMIN, College de France
VOLUME 8
JAAKKO
HINTIKKA
Edited by
RADU J. BOGDAN
Tulane University, New Orleans
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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
laakko Hintikka.
(Profiles; v. 8)
"Bibliography of laakko Hintikka": p.
Includes indexes.
1. Hintikka, laakko, 1929- I. Bodgan, Radu 1.
II. Title. III. Series: Profiles (Dordrecht, Netherlands); v. 8.
B4715.H54J32 1987 197'.1 86-31646
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TABLE OF CONTENTS
EDITORIAL INTRODUCTION vii
PREFACE
IX
Part One
JAAKKO HINTIKKA-Self-Profile 3
I. An Autobiographical Sketch 3
II. Reflections on My Philosophical Ideas 9
1. The Unity of One's Philosophical Experience 9
2. Logical Tools: Ways of World-Describing 10
(i) Model set techniques 10
(ii) Distributive normal forms 14
(iii) The semantics of modal and intensional logics 17
(iv) Possible-worlds semantics 18
(v) Possible-worlds semantics and analytic philosophers 21
(vi) Theory of questions and answers 22
(vii) The problems of cross-identification 24
(viii) Wider perspectives 25
3. Philosophical Ideas: Transcendental Arguments Revived 26
(i) Semantics as based on language-games 26
(ii) Back to Kant 27
(iii) Kant's theory of space, time, and mathematics 28
(iv) A transcendental deduction of game-theoretical 29
semantics
(v) Transcendental deductions of nonclassical logics 30
(vi) A glimpse of the rules of semantical games 35
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(vii) The logic of being: A refutation of Frege and Russell 36
(viii) Transcendental arguments for (and against) 38
Aristotelian categories
Part Two
VEIKKO RANT ALA-Constituents 43
VEIKKO RANT ALA and VITALI TSELISHCHEV-Surface 77
Information and Analyticity
ESA SAARINEN-Hintikka on Quantifying In and On 91
Trans-World Identity
BARRY RICHARDs-Game-Theoretical Semantics and 123
Logical Form
MARCO MONDADORI-Hintikka's Inductive Logic 157
KENNETH COLLIER-Hintikka's Epistemic Logic 181
DA VID HARRAH-Hintikka's Theory of Questions 199
ROMANE CLARK-What Is a "Perceptually Well-Defined 215
Individual"? Hintikka's Views on Perception
DAVID WOODRUFF SMITH-On Objects and Worlds of 233
Thought in the Philosophy of Hintikka
RICHARD BOSLEY-Hintikka on Modalities and Determinism 247
in Aristotle
ROBERT KRAUT-Hintikka's Ontology 261
JAAKKO HlNTIKKA-Replies and Comments 277
Part Three
BIBLIOGRAPHY OF JAAKKO HINTIKKA 347
INDEX OF NAMES 379
INDEX OF SUBJECTS 381
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EDITORIAL INTRODUCTION
The aim of this series is to inform both professional philosophers
and a larger readership (of social and natural scientists,
methodologists, mathematicians, students, teachers, publishers, etc.)
about what is going on, who's who, and who does what in
contemporary philosophy and logic. PROFILES is designed to present
the research activity and the results of already outstanding
personalities and schools and of newly emerging ones in the various
fields of philosophy and logic. There are many Festschrift volumes
dedicated to various philosophers. There is the celebrated Library of
Living Philosophers edited by P. A. Schilpp whose format
influenced the present enterprise. Still they can only cover very little
of the contemporary philosophical scene. Faced with a tremendous
expansion of philosophical information and with an almost
frightening division of labor and increasing specialization we need
systematic and regular ways of keeping track of what happens in the
profession. PROFILES is intended to perform such a function.
Each volume is devoted to one or several philosophers whose
views and results are presented and discussed. The profiled
philosopher(s) will summarize and review his (their) own work in the
main fields of significant contribution. This work will be discussed
and evaluated by invited contributors. Relevant his to rial and/or
biographical data, an up-to-date bibliography with short abstracts of
the most important works and, whenever possible, references to
significant reviews and discussion will also be included.
Since rigorous argumentation and a rational approach to
philosophical problems are among the most worthwhile trends in
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contemporary philosophical thought, PROFILES will give priority to
surveys of the work of authors and schools of thought that meet
these standards. However, this preference allows for a broad
spectrum of philosophical and methodological viewpoints. As a
vehicle of information about, and systematization of, contemporary
philowphical and logical knowledge, PROFILES will strive to report
on any major contribution to that body of knowledge, be it personal
or collective. PROFILES will also report on research and new projects
that, although still esoteric and even tentative, may be expected to
become seminal and influential in some field of philosophical or
logical studies. The sooner the information about such new ventures
is disseminated and systematized, the greater will be its impact on
undergraduate and graduate students, researchers, teachers on all
levels, editors, publishers, university and foundation managers, etc.
The editors will welcome information on personal and collective
research in progress, Ph.D. theses, surveys and monographs dealing
with individual philosophers and schools of thought working in
contemporary philosophy and logic.
RADU 1. BOGDAN ILKKA NIINILUOTO
Tulane University University of Helsinki
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PREFACE
Jaakko Hintikka's work has taken very many directions, from
philosophy of logic and language to inductive and epistemic logic,
history of philosophy and aesthetics. This volume intends to give the
reader a fair survey of Hintikka's remarkable output and many
important contributions, locating the systematic unity behind the
diversity of interests and results, and offering at the same time a
critical evaluation of the most significant accomplishments. In the
more technical areas, particularly in philosophy of logic and
language, I have asked the contributors to produce an accessible
exposition meant to familiarize the reader with Hintikka's basic
tools and methods.
The volume opens with Hintikka's Self-Profile, continues with a
number of papers covering the fields of Hintikka's significant
contribution to contemporary philosophy, and concludes with
Hintikka's replies and his annotated bibliography.
For a number of objective reasons, this volume has been slow in
taking shape. So I want to thank the contributors for their
cooperation, understanding and graceful patience. The present
volume is also the last in the PROFILES series to be published by
D. Reidel. This does not necessarily mean an end to the PROFILES
series itself. This editor is determined to make all the efforts
necessary to continue the publication of the series. I take this
opportunity to warmly thank all those who over the years have
supported and believed in this enterprise.
New Orleans, March 1986 RADU 1. BOGDAN
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