Jaakko Hintikka

Kaarlo Jaakko Juhani Hintikka (12 January 1929 – 12 August 2015) was a Finnish philosopher and logician. Hintikka is regarded as the founder of formal epistemic logic and of game semantics for logic.

Jaakko Hintikka
Jaakko Hintikka in 2003
Born
Jaakko Kaarlo Juhani Hintikka

(1929-01-12)12 January 1929
Helsingin maalaiskunta, Finland
Died12 August 2015(2015-08-12) (aged 86)
Porvoo, Finland
NationalityFinnish
EducationUniversity of Helsinki
(Ph.D., 1953)
Awards
  • Library of Living Philosophers (2006)
  • Rolf Schock Prize (2006)
Era20th-century philosophy
RegionWestern philosophy
SchoolAnalytic philosophy
Institutions
ThesisDistributive Normal Forms in the Calculus of Predicates (1953)
Doctoral advisorGeorg Henrik von Wright
Doctoral students
Main interests
  • Philosophy
  • Logic
Notable ideas
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