The Logic of Epistemology and the Epistemology of Logic: Selected Essays (Synthese Library, 200)

__Jaakko Hintikka__ is the author or co-author of thirty volumes and of some 300 scholarly articles in mathematical and philosophical logic, epistemology, language theory, philosophy of science, history of ideas and history of philosophy, including Aristotle, Descartes, Leibniz, Kant, Peirce, The Bloomsbury Group, Husserl and Wittgenstein. He has also been active in international scholarly organizations, most recently as the First Vice-President of FISP, Vice-President of IIP and Co-Chair of the American Organizing Committee of the Twentieth World Congress of Philosophy. He has been Editor-in-Chief of the International Journal __Synthese__ and the Managing Editor of __Synthese____Library__ since 1965. somewhat like Henkin's nonstandard interpretation of higher-order logics, while the right semantics [or logical modalities is an analogue to the standard of type theory in Henkin's sense. interpretation Another possibility would be to follow W.V. Quine's advice to give up logi- cal modalities as being beyond repair. Or we could also try to develop a logic of conceptual possibility, restricting the range of our "possible worlds" to those compatible with the transcendental presuppositions of our own conceptual sys- tem. This looks in fact like one of the most interesting possible theories I have dreamt of developing but undoubtedly never will. Its kinship with Kant's way of thinking should be obvious. Besides putting the entire enterprise of possible-worlds semantics into a perspective, we can also see that the actual history of possible-worlds seman- tics is more complicated than it might first appear to be. For the standard in- terpretation of modal logics has reared its beautiful head repeatedly in the writings of Stig Kanger, Richard Montague the pre-Montague-semantics theorist, and Nino Cocchiarella. Front Matter....Pages i-xx Is Alethic Modal Logic Possible?....Pages 1-15 Reasoning about Knowledge in Philosophy: The Paradigm of Epistemic Logic....Pages 17-35 Are There Nonexistent Objects? Why Not? But Where are They?....Pages 37-44 On Sense, Reference, and the Objects of Knowledge....Pages 45-61 Impossible Possible Worlds Vindicated....Pages 63-72 Towards a General Theory of Individuation and Identification....Pages 73-95 On the Proper Treatment of Quantifiers in Montague Semantics....Pages 97-112 The Cartesian Cogito, Epistemic Logic and Neuroscience: Some Surprising Interrelations....Pages 113-136 Quine on Who’s Who....Pages 137-154 How can Language be Sexist?....Pages 155-164 On Denoting what?....Pages 165-181 Degrees and Dimensions of Intentionality....Pages 183-204 Situations, Possible Worlds, and Attitudes....Pages 205-214 Questioning as a Philosophical Method....Pages 215-233 Erratum....Pages 246-246 Back Matter....Pages 235-245 Jaakko Hintikka is the author or co-author of thirty volumes and of some 300 scholarly articles in mathematical and philosophical logic, epistemology, language theory, philosophy of science, history of ideas and history of philosophy, including Aristotle, Descartes, Leibniz, Kant, Peirce, The Bloomsbury Group, Husserl and Wittgenstein. He has also been active in international scholarly organizations, most recently as the First Vice-President of FISP, Vice-President of IIP and Co-Chair of the American Organizing Committee of the Twentieth World Congress of Philosophy. He has been Editor-in-Chief of the International Journal Synthese and the Managing Editor of Synthese Library since 1965. Jaakko Hintikka And Merrill B. Hintikka. Includes Bibliographies And Indexes.