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718Remarks on the Gödelian Anti-Mechanist ArgumentsStudia Semiotyczne 34 (1). 2020.Certain selected issues around the Gödelian anti-mechanist arguments which have received less attention are discussed.
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259Semanttisen eksternalismin puolustusAjatus 76 (1). 2019.Suosituimpia ja vaikutusvaltaisimpia semanttista eksternalismia ja kausaalista viittaamisen teoriaa vastaan käytettyjä strategioita arvioidaan kriittisesti. Tarkemmassa tarkastelussa mikään niistä ei osoittaudu erityisen vakuuttavaksi.
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7576Truth and Theories of TruthIn Piotr Stalmaszczyk (ed.), The Cambridge Handbook of the Philosophy of Language, Cambridge University Press. 2021.The concept of truth and competing philosophical theories on what truth amounts to have an important place in contemporary philosophy. The aim of this chapter is to give a synopsis of different theories of truth and the particular philosophical issues related to the concept of truth. The literature on this topic is vast, and we must necessarily be rather selective and very brief about complex questions of interpretation of various philosophers. The focus of the chapter is mainly on selected syst…Read more
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1711Kim on Causation and Mental CausationE-Logos Electronic Journal for Philosophy 25 (2). 2018.Jaegwon Kim’s views on mental causation and the exclusion argument are evaluated systematically. Particular attention is paid to different theories of causation. It is argued that the exclusion argument and its premises do not cohere well with any systematic view of causation.
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752Gödel’s Disjunction: The Scope and Limits of Mathematical Knowledge (review)History and Philosophy of Logic 39 (4): 401-403. 2018.Austrian-born Kurt Gödel is widely considered the greatest logician of modern times. It is above all his celebrated incompleteness theorems—rigorous mathematical results about the necessary limits...
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5485Theories of Reference: What Was the Question?In Andrea Bianchi (ed.), Language and Reality From a Naturalistic Perspective: Themes From Michael Devitt., Springer. 2020.The new theory of reference has won popularity. However, a number of noted philosophers have also attempted to reply to the critical arguments of Kripke and others, and aimed to vindicate the description theory of reference. Such responses are often based on ingenious novel kinds of descriptions, such as rigidified descriptions, causal descriptions, and metalinguistic descriptions. This prolonged debate raises the doubt whether different parties really have any shared understanding of what the c…Read more
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478Intuitionistic logic and its philosophyAl-Mukhatabat. A Trilingual Journal For Logic, Epistemology and Analytical Philosophy (6): 114-127. 2013.
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24The problem of the simplest Diophantine representationNordic Journal of Philosophical Logic 2 47-54. 1997.
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995Hilbert's Program RevisitedSynthese 137 (1-2): 157-177. 2003.After sketching the main lines of Hilbert's program, certain well-known andinfluential interpretations of the program are critically evaluated, and analternative interpretation is presented. Finally, some recent developments inlogic related to Hilbert's program are reviewed.
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499More on Putnam and TarskiSynthese 135 (1). 2003.Hilary Putnam's famous arguments criticizing Tarski's theory of truth are evaluated. It is argued that they do not succeed to undermine Tarski's approach. One of the arguments is based on the problematic idea of a false instance of T-schema. The other ignores various issues essential for Tarski's setting such as language-relativity of truth definition.
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240Lumikki ja Myrkkyomena - Alan Turing 1912-1954In Timo Kaitaro & Markku Roinila (eds.), Filosofin kuolema., Summa. 2004.
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947Conceptions of truth in intuitionismHistory and Philosophy of Logic 25 (2): 131--45. 2004.Intuitionism’s disagreement with classical logic is standardly based on its specific understanding of truth. But different intuitionists have actually explicated the notion of truth in fundamentally different ways. These are considered systematically and separately, and evaluated critically. It is argued that each account faces difficult problems. They all either have implausible consequences or are viciously circular.
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190Mitä uutta modernissa logiikassa?In Filosofisia tutkielmia – Philosophical Studies in honorem Leila Haaparanta, Tampere University Press. 2004.logiikka on lopullinen ja täydellinen logiikka. Sittemmin logiikka on kuitenkin kokenut melkoisen mullistuksen. Käsitykset siitä, mikä tässä muutoksessa oli olennaista ja milloin se todella tapahtui, vaihtelevat.
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1169Ihmistieteet – tiedettä vai tulkintaa?In Anneli Meurman-Solin & Ilkka Pyysiäinen (eds.), Ihmistieteet tänään, Gaudeamus. 2005.Yhteiskuntatieteiden ja humanististen tieteiden, tai lyhyemmin, ihmistieteiden, asema tieteiden joukossa on monien kiistojen kohteena. Ihmistieteiden ja luonnontieteiden välistä suhdetta koskevassa keskustelussa on perinteisesti ollut vastakkain kaksi kantaa: Toinen näkökanta on painottanut, että sama yleinen tieteellinen menetelmä soveltuu niin luontoon kuin ihmiseenkin ja että ollakseen tieteellisiä ihmistieteiden on täytettävä samat tieteellisyyden kriteerit kuin luonnontieteidenkin. Toinen o…Read more
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19Formalismin rajatNiin and Näin 2. 2005.Nykyaikaisen formaalisen logiikan kehityksen alkutaivalta leimasivat kunnianhimoiset tavoitteet ja vahva optimismi. Tavoitteena oli osoittaa koko matematiikalle ehdottoman varma perusta. Parhaimmillaan filosofian ongelmienkin uskottiin ratkeavan formaalisen logiikan avulla. Filosofisesti kuitenkin on mielenkiintoisinta, että nykyaikainen formaalinen logiikka on mahdollistanut formaalisen lähestymistavan rajoitusten kiistattoman ja matemaattisen täsmällisen osoittamisen. Tämäntyyppisillä tuloksil…Read more
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2056On How to Avoid the Indeterminacy of TranslationSouthern Journal of Philosophy 43 (3): 395-413. 2005.Quine’s thesis of the indeterminacy of translation has puzzled the philosophical community for several decades. It is unquestionably among the best known and most disputed theses in contemporary philosophy. Quine’s classical argument for the indeterminacy thesis, in his seminal work Word and Object, has even been described by Putnam as “what may well be the most fascinating and the most discussed philosophical argument since Kant’s Transcendental Deduction of the Categories” (Putnam, 1975a: p. 1…Read more
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709The Semantic Realism/Anti-Realism Dispute and Knowledge of MeaningsThe Baltic International Yearbook of Cognition, Logic and Communication 5 1-13. 2009.Here the relationship between understanding and knowledge of meaning is discussed from two different perspectives: that of Dummettian semantic anti-realism and that of the semantic externalism of Putnam and others. The question addressed is whether or not the truth of semantic externalism would undermine a central premise in one of Dummetts key arguments for anti-realism, insofar as Dummetts premise involves an assumption about the transparency of meaning and semantic externalism is often taken …Read more
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564On Carnap sentencesAnalysis 71 (2): 245-246. 2011.The influential proposal that the analytical component of a theory is captured by its ‘Carnap sentence’ is critically scrutinized. A counterexample which makes the suggestion problematic is presented.
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222Gödel's Incompleteness TheoremsThe Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy (Winter 2013 Edition), Edward N. Zalta (Ed.). 2013.Gödel's two incompleteness theorems are among the most important results in modern logic, and have deep implications for various issues. They concern the limits of provability in formal axiomatic theories. The first incompleteness theorem states that in any consistent formal system F within which a certain amount of arithmetic can be carried out, there are statements of the language of F which can neither be proved nor disproved in F. According to the second incompleteness theorem, such a formal…Read more
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1237What Was Analytic Philosophy?Journal for the History of Analytical Philosophy 2 (1): 11-27. 2013.
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929Can The Mental be Causally Efficacious?In K. Talmont-Kaminski M. Milkowski (ed.), Regarding the Mind, Naturally: Naturalist Approaches to the Sciences of the Mental., Cambridge Scholars Press. 2013.
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1079Realism: Metaphysical, Scientific, and SemanticIn Kenneth R. Westphal (ed.), Realism, Science, and Pragmatism, Routledge. pp. 139-158. 2014.Three influential forms of realism are distinguished and interrelated: realism about the external world, construed as a metaphysical doctrine; scientific realism about non-observable entities postulated in science; and semantic realism as defined by Dummett. Metaphysical realism about everyday physical objects is contrasted with idealism and phenomenalism, and several potent arguments against these latter views are reviewed. Three forms of scientific realism are then distinguished: (i) scientif…Read more
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2236Chalmers' Blueprint of the WorldInternational Journal of Philosophical Studies 22 (1): 113-128. 2014.A critical notice of David J. Chalmers, Constructing the World (Oxford University Press,2012).
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Tampere UniversityRegular Faculty
University of Helsinki
PhD, 1998
Tampere, Western Finland, Finland
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