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1The Interrogative Model of Inquiry in Evolutionary StudiesActa Philosophica Fennica 49 473-487. 1990.
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59Reasoning to hypotheses: Where do questions come?Foundations of Science 9 (3): 249-266. 2004.Detectives and scientists are in the business of reasoning from observations to explanations. This they often do by raising cunning questionsduring their inquiries. But to substantiate this claim we need to know how questions arise and how they are nurtured into more specific hypotheses. I shall discuss what the problem is, and then introduce the so-called interrogative model of inquiry which makes use of an explicit logic of questions. On this view, a discovery processes can be represented as a…Read more
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20Knowing and MakingGrazer Philosophische Studien 49 (1): 121-134. 1994.Jaakko Hintikka's Kantianism in philosophy of logic and mathematics is known to go further than Kant's own, for he argues that mathematical reasoning involves the "language-games" of seeking and finding. Therefore, logic mirrors the structure of this activity. But Hintikka also pushes the Copemican Revolution further to epistemology and philosophy of science. He agrees that "reason has insight only into what which it produces after a plan of ist own", but gives the idea a new logical turn. Kant …Read more
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11Explanation: The Fifth DecadePoznan Studies in the Philosophy of the Sciences and the Humanities 51 225-238. 1997.
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37The interrogative model of inquiry and computer-supported collaborative learningScience & Education 11 (1): 25-43. 2002.
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19Separating problems from their backgrounds: a question-theoretic proposalCommunication and Cognition: An Interdisciplinary Quarterly Journal 18 (1-2). 1985.
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37In Search of Explanations: from Why-questions to Shakespearean QuestionsPhilosophica 51 (1): 55-81. 1993.
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16Two Interrogative Models of Scientific InquiryPhilosophie Et Culture: Actes du XVIIe Congrès Mondial de Philosophie 4 777-780. 1988.
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15Selectivity and Theory ChoicePSA: Proceedings of the Biennial Meeting of the Philosophy of Science Association 1986. 1986.Several writers have maintained that the Kuhnian revolution in philosophy of science amounts, in part, to an increased appreciation of the role of value judgments and decisions in theory appraisal. This paper argues that, Laudan's recent skeptical remarks notwithstanding, recourse to subjective criteria in the application and weighing of shared choice criteria makes good sense. The paper also shows how the structuralist theory-notion, which should be congenial to Kuhn on independent grounds, hel…Read more
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31Matti Sintonen, Review of Error and the Growth of Experimental Knowledge by Deborah Mayo (review)Philosophy of Science 65 (2): 370-372. 1998.
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From the Science of Logic to the Logic of SciencePoznan Studies in the Philosophy of the Sciences and the Humanities 51 1-4. 1997.
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University of HelsinkiDepartment of Philosophy (Theoretical Philosophy, Practical Philosophy, Philosophy in Swedish)Retired faculty