Essays in Honour of Jaakko Hintikka: On the Occasion of His Fiftieth Birthday on January 12, 1979 (Synthese Library, 124)

Jaakko Hintikka was born on January 12th, 1929. He received his doctorate from the University of Helsinki under the supervision of Professor G. H. von Wright at the age of 24 in 1953. Hintikka was appointed Professor of philosophy at the University of Helsinki in 1959. Since the late 50s, he has shared his time between Finland and the U.S.A. He was appointed Professor of philosophy at Stanford University in 1964. As from 1970 Hintikka has been permanent research professor of the Academy of Finland. He has published 13 books and about 200 articles, not to mention the various editorial and organizational activities he has played an active role in. The present collection of essays has been edited to honour Jaakko Hintikka on the occasion of his fiftieth birthday. By dedicating a Festschrift to Jaakko Hintikka, the contributors wish to pay homage to this remarkable man whom they see not only as a scholar of prodigious energy and insight, but as a friend, colleague and former teacher. The contributors hope the essays collected here will bring pleasure to the man they are intended to honour. All of the essays touch upon topics Hintikka has taken an direct or indirect interest in, ranging from technical problems of mathematical logic and applications of formal methods through philosophical logic, philosophy of language, epistemology and history of philosophy to philosophical aesthetics. Front Matter....Pages i-x Front Matter....Pages 1-1 Grammar and Meaning....Pages 3-15 Sense and Science....Pages 17-47 Variable-Free Semantics for Negations with Prosodic Variation....Pages 49-59 Informational Independence in Intensional Context....Pages 61-72 Front Matter....Pages 73-73 A Note on Distributive Normal Forms....Pages 75-90 On the Metaphysics of the Real Line....Pages 91-99 A Generalization of the Infinitely Deep Languages of Hintikka and Rantala....Pages 101-112 Front Matter....Pages 113-113 On the Possibilities of Information Evaluation of Graphical Communications....Pages 115-134 On Formal Aspects of Distributive Justice....Pages 135-146 Some Reflections on Method in the Theory of Social Choice....Pages 147-159 Front Matter....Pages 161-161 A Problem About Permission....Pages 163-175 Possible Worlds and Formal Semantics....Pages 177-188 Continuity and Similarity in Cross-Identification....Pages 189-215 Front Matter....Pages 217-217 Serious Possibility....Pages 219-236 On Knowing, Knowing that one Knows and Consciousness....Pages 237-248 Knowing that One Sees....Pages 249-282 Front Matter....Pages 283-283 Anything Viewed....Pages 285-293 Front Matter....Pages 295-295 The ‘Master Argument’ of Diodorus....Pages 297-307 Plato in Infinitum Remisse Incipit Esse Albus....Pages 309-329 A Problem for Kant....Pages 331-349 Front Matter....Pages 295-295 Subjects, Predicates, Isomorphic Representation, and Language Games....Pages 351-364 Husserl and Heidegger on the Role of Actions in the Constitution of the World....Pages 365-378 Back Matter....Pages 379-397