Jaakko Hintikka is the author or co-author of thirty volumes and of some 300 scholarly articles in mathematical and philosophical logic, epistemology, language theory, philosophy of science, history of ideas and history of philosophy, including Aristotle, Descartes, Leibniz, Kant, Peirce, The Bloomsbury Group, Husserl and Wittgenstein. He has also been active in international scholarly organizations, most recently as the First Vice-President of FISP, Vice-President of IIP and Co-Chair of the American Organizing Committee of the Twentieth World Congress of Philosophy. He has been Editor-in-Chief of the International Journal Synthese and the Managing Editor of SyntheseLibrary since 1965.
Author(s): Jaakko Hintikka, Merrill B. Hintikka (auth.)
Series: Synthese Library 200
Edition: 1
Publisher: Springer Netherlands
Year: 1988
Language: English
Pages: 246
Tags: Logic; Philosophy of Language; Theoretical Languages; Philosophy
Front Matter....Pages i-xx
Is Alethic Modal Logic Possible?....Pages 1-15
Reasoning about Knowledge in Philosophy: The Paradigm of Epistemic Logic....Pages 17-35
Are There Nonexistent Objects? Why Not? But Where are They?....Pages 37-44
On Sense, Reference, and the Objects of Knowledge....Pages 45-61
Impossible Possible Worlds Vindicated....Pages 63-72
Towards a General Theory of Individuation and Identification....Pages 73-95
On the Proper Treatment of Quantifiers in Montague Semantics....Pages 97-112
The Cartesian Cogito, Epistemic Logic and Neuroscience: Some Surprising Interrelations....Pages 113-136
Quine on Who’s Who....Pages 137-154
How can Language be Sexist?....Pages 155-164
On Denoting what?....Pages 165-181
Degrees and Dimensions of Intentionality....Pages 183-204
Situations, Possible Worlds, and Attitudes....Pages 205-214
Questioning as a Philosophical Method....Pages 215-233
Erratum....Pages 246-246
Back Matter....Pages 235-245
