Jaakko Hintikka
1976
Jaakko Hintikka was a Finnish philosopher and logician, widely regarded as the founder of formal epistemic logic and of game semantics for logic.
Born 12 January 1929 in Vantaa, Finland.
Died 12 august 2015 in Porvoo, Finland
- Junior Fellow Harvard University 1956–1959
- Professor Helsinki University 1959–1970
- Stanford University 1964–1982,
- Florida State University 1978–1990,
- Boston University 1990
- Research Professor at the Academy of Finland 1970–1981
- John Lock Lecturer, Oxford University 1964
- Axel Hägerström Lecturer, Uppsala University 1983
- Immanuel Kant Lecturer, Stanford University 1984
- Chaim Perelman Lecturer, TelAviv University 1994
- President of International Union of History and Philosophy of Science 1975
- President of American Philosophical Association, Pacific Division 1975–1976
- Vice President of International Federation of Philosophical Societies 1993–1998
- President of Institut International de Philosophie 1999–2002
- Honorary Member of Finnish Academy of Science and Letters,
- Societas Scientiarum Fennica Institut International de Philosophie,
- American Academy of Arts and Sciences, Norwegian Academy of Science and Letters,
- Foreign Member of Russian Academy of Science, Hungarian Academy of Science
- Awarded Honorary Doctorate by Liège University 1984, Jagiellonian University 1995, Uppsala University 2000, University of Oulu 2002 and University of Turku 2003
Publications
37 books authored or coauthored, over 300 scholarly papers published
Knowledge and Belief 1962
Models for Modalities 1969
Logic, LanguageGames and Information 1973
The Game of Language 1983
Investigating Wittgenstein (with Merrill B. Hintikka) 1986
The Principles of Mathematics Revisited 1996
Edited
18 volumes
Editor-in-Chief of the International Journal Synthese 1965–1976, 1982–2002
International Symposia and dedecated volumes on Hintikka
Perspectives on the Philosophy of J.H., Helsinki 1989
Colloque Jaakko Hintikka, Paris 1994
The Philosophy of J.H. (Library of Living Philosophers vol. 30) 2006
Awards
E.J. Nyström Prize of Societas Scientiarum Fennica 1988
Grand Prize (kunniapalkinto) of Suomen Kulttuurirahasto 1989
Schock Prize of Royal Swedish Academy of Science 2005
