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4Malli, metodi, merkitys: esseitä Veikko Rantalan 60-vuotispäivän kunniaksi (edited book)Myynti, Tampereen yliopisto. 1993.
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Frege and his German Contemporaries on Alethic ModalitiesIn Simo Knuuttila (ed.), Modern Modalities: Studies of the History of Modal Theories From Medieval Nominalism to Logical Positivism, Kluwer Academic Publishers. pp. 239-274. 1988.
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40Categories of Being: Essays on Metaphysics and Logic (edited book)OUP USA. 2012.This edited volume is a comprehensive presentation of views on the relations between metaphysics and logic from Aristotle through twentieth century philosophers who contributed to the return of metaphysics in the analytic tradition. The collection combines interest in logic and its history with interest in analytical metaphysics and the history of metaphysical thought. By so doing, it adds both to the historical understanding of metaphysical problems and to contemporary research in the field. Th…Read more
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3Mind, Meaning and Mathematics: Essays on the Philosophical Views 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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18Wittgenstein’s Limits of Language and Normative Theories of Assertion: Some ComparisonsDisputatio 10 (18). 2021.In his classic work on Wittgenstein’s Tractatus Erik Stenius described Wittgenstein’s study as a critique of pure language, thus pointing to a connection between Wittgenstein’s philosophy and Kant’s critique of pure reason. Besides similarities, there also seems be important differences between the two philosophers. In Kant’s critique, one discerns a subject who does something, namely, constructs the world of experience, while Wittgenstein draws a picture in which neither an agent nor an act is …Read more
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4Brandom, Wittgenstein, and Human EncountersDisputatio 8 (9). 2019.There are several similarities between Robert B. Brandom’s and the later Wittgenstein’s views on linguistic meaning. Like Wittgenstein, Brandom rejects representationalism and takes linguistic practices to be the basis where all meaning rests. His inferentialism is a holistic view, already envisaged by Frege. The idea of a language game connects Brandom to Wittgenstein, although Wittgenstein’s idea has also been developed in various other directions. However, unlike Wittgenstein, Brandom pays sp…Read more
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42Categories of Being: Essays on Metaphysics and Logic (edited book)Oxford University Press. 2012.This edited volume is a comprehensive presentation of views on the relations between metaphysics and logic from Aristotle through twentieth century philosophers who contributed to the return of metaphysics in the analytic tradition.
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Philosophy and its Recent History: Remarks on What is Analytic Philosophy?, by Hans-Johann GlockJournal for the History of Analytical Philosophy 2 (2): 2-5. 2013.
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8Existence and Propositional Attitudes: A Fregean AnalysisHistory of Philosophy & Logical Analysis 4 (1): 75-86. 2001.
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33Frege Synthesized: Essays on the Philosophical and Foundational Work of Gottlob Frege (edited book)Kluwer Academic Publishers. 1986.... which is merely intensional frosting on a more important extensional L. Haaparanta and J. Hintikka (eds.), Frege Synthesized, 3—8. O 1986 byD. ...
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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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36Frege on ExistenceIn Leila Haaparanta & Jaakko Hintikka (eds.), Frege Synthesized: Essays on the Philosophical and Foundational Work of Gottlob Frege, Kluwer Academic Publishers. pp. 155--174. 1986.
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115The development of modern logic (edited book)Oxford University Press. 2011.This edited volume presents a comprehensive history of modern logic from the Middle Ages through the end of the twentieth century.
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: In his paper "Explanation of Curiosity the First" Charles Peirce describes Euclid's procedure in proving theorems. Euclid first presents his theorem in general terms and then translates it into singular terms. Peirce pays attention to the fact that the generality of the statement is not lost by that move. The next step is construction, which is followed by demonstration. Finally the ergo-sentence repeats the original general proposition. Peirce lays much emphasis on the distinction between cor…Read more
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21Juha Manninen and Friedrich Stadler, eds. The Vienna Circle in the Nordic Countries: Networks and Transformations of Logical Empiricism. Dordrecht: Springer, 2010. Pp. 326. €123.00 (review)Hopos: The Journal of the International Society for the History of Philosophy of Science 3 (2): 337-341. 2013.
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31Die philosophische logik Gottlob freges. Ein kommentar, mit den texten Des vorworts zu grundgesetze der arithmetik und der logischen untersuchungen I–iv (review)Journal of the History of Philosophy 49 (4): 507-508. 2011.In lieu of an abstract, here is a brief excerpt of the content:Reviewed by:Die Philosophische Logik Gottlob Freges. Ein Kommentar, mit den Texten des Vorworts zu Grundgesetze der Arithmetik und der Logischen Untersuchungen I–IVLeila HaaparantaWolfgang Künne. Die Philosophische Logik Gottlob Freges. Ein Kommentar, mit den Texten des Vorworts zu Grundgesetze der Arithmetik und der Logischen Untersuchungen I–IV. RoteReihe 30. Frankfurt: V. Klostermann, 2010. Pp. 840. Paper, €29.80.Frege’s thought h…Read more
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15On “Being” and BeingIn Leila Haaparanta & Heikki J. Koskinen (eds.), Categories of Being: Essays on Metaphysics and Logic, Oxford University Press. pp. 319. 2012.
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18Finnish studies in phenomenology and phenomenological studies in finland: Interfaces of analytic philosophy and phenomenologyPoznan Studies in the Philosophy of the Sciences and the Humanities 80 (1): 491-509. 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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119On the possibility of naturalistic and of pure epistemologySynthese 118 (1): 31-47. 1999.This paper deals with two opposite metaphilosophical doctrines concerning the nature of philosophy. More specifically, it is a study of the naturalistic view that philosophical, hence also epistemological, knowledge cannot be distinguished from empirical knowledge, and of the antinaturalistic view that philosophical, hence also epistemological, knowledge, is pure, that is, independent of empirical knowledge and particularly of the special sciences. The conditions of the possibility of naturalist…Read more
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18Logicism and its Philosophical Legacy by William DemopoulosJournal of the History of Philosophy 52 (4): 854-855. 2014.
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20Existence and propositional attitudes: a Fregean analysisHistory of Philosophy & Logical Analysis 4 75-86. 2001.It is a commonly held view that Frege's doctrine of senses and references is not compatible with the idea that there are de re beliefs. The present paper is meant to challenge that view. Moreover, it seeks to show that, instead of forcing Frege's semantic framework to answer questions raised by twentieth-century philosophy of language, we could try to find other questions to which it might be an answer. It is argued that the proper treatment of Frege's views requires the acknowledgement of the c…Read more
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13On “being” and being erege between Carnap and HeideggerIn Leila Haaparanta & Heikki J. Koskinen (eds.), Categories of Being: Essays on Metaphysics and Logic, Oxford University Press. pp. 319. 2012.
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9IntroductionIn The development of modern logic, Oxford University Press. 2011.This introductory chapter begins with a discussion of the concept of logic, focusing on Aristotelian logic and symbolic logic. It then discusses the concept of modern logic, and the uses of the terms “logic,”, “philosophical logic”, and “philosophy of logic.”.
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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 |