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5PrefacePoznan Studies in the Philosophy of the Sciences and the Humanities 80 (1): 7-7. 2003.Finland is internationally known as one of the leading centers of twentieth century analytic philosophy. This volume offers for the first time an overall survey of the Finnish analytic school. The rise of this trend is illustrated by original articles of Edward Westermarck, Eino Kaila, Georg Henrik von Wright, and Jaakko Hintikka. Contributions of Finnish philosophers are then systematically discussed in the fields of logic, philosophy of language, philosophy of science, history of philosophy, e…Read more
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23The Analogy Theory of ThinkingDialectica 46 (2): 169-183. 1992.The paper deals with a doctrine called the analogy theory of thinking. Its contemporary proponents have been Wilfried Sellars and Peter Geach. The paper is an attempt to give an exact formulation for one answer to the question concerning the relation of thought and speech. That answer is a reduced of Sellar's theory. A semiformal explication of the view is suggested by means of the classical analogy theory and Bochenski's treatment of that theory. It is argued that even if the analogy theory of …Read more
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Intention käsite ja logiikan oikeuttamisen ongelma Edmund Husserlin filosofiassaAjatus 46 116-126. 1989.
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Compositionality, Contextuality and the Philosophical MethodActa Philosophica Fennica 78 289. 2006.
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3Mind, Meaning and Mathematics. Essays on the Philosophy of Husserl and Frege (edited book)Kluwer Academic Publishers. 1994.At the turn of the century, Gottlob Frege and Edmund Husserl both participated in the discussion concerning the foundations of logic and mathematics. Since the 1960s, comparisons have been made between Frege's semantic views and Husserl's theory of intentional acts. In quite recent years, new approaches to the two philosophers' views have appeared. This collection of articles opens with the first English translation of Dagfinn Føllesdal's early classic on Husserl and Frege of 1958. The book brin…Read more
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34Frege on ExistenceIn L. Haaparanta & J. Hintikka (eds.), Frege Synthesized, D. Reidel Publishing Co.. pp. 155--174. 1986.
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University of HelsinkiDepartment of Philosophy (Theoretical Philosophy, Practical Philosophy, Philosophy in Swedish)Title of Docent
University of Helsinki
Department of Philosophy (Theoretical Philosophy, Practical Philosophy, Philosophy in Swedish)
PhD, 1985
APA Eastern Division
Areas of Specialization
Metaphysics and Epistemology |
Philosophical Traditions |
Science, Logic, and Mathematics |