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From Dedekind to Godel: Essays on the Development of the Foundations of Mathematics

Product Description: Discussions of the foundations of mathematics and their history are frequently restricted to logical issues in a narrow sense, or else to traditional problems of analytic philosophy. From Dedekind to Gödel: Essays on the Development of the Foundations of Mathematics illustrates the much greater variety of the actual developments in the foundations during the period covered...read more

By Jaakko Hintikka (editor)

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9780792334842 | Kluwer Academic Print on Demand, December 1, 1995, cover price $319.00 | About this edition: Discussions of the foundations of mathematics and their history are frequently restricted to logical issues in a narrow sense, or else to traditional problems of analytic philosophy.

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9789048145546 | Springer Verlag, December 31, 2010, cover price $379.00 | About this edition: Discussions of the foundations of mathematics and their history are frequently restricted to logical issues in a narrow sense, or else to traditional problems of analytic philosophy.

Basic Problems in Methodology and Linguistics

By Robert E. Butts (editor) and Jaakko Hintikka (editor)

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9789048183500 | Springer Verlag, December 23, 2010, cover price $289.00

Historical and Philosophical Dimensions of Logic, Methodology, and Philosophy of Science

By Robert E. Butts (editor) and Jaakko Hintikka (editor)

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9789048183517 | Springer Verlag, December 23, 2010, cover price $119.00

Aspects of Metaphor

Product Description: Metaphor is one of the most frequently evoked but at the same time most poorly understood concepts in philosophy and literary theory. In recent years, several interesting approaches to metaphor have been presented or outlined. In this volume, authors of some of the most important new approaches re-present their views or illustrate them by means of applications, thus allowing the reader to survey some of the prominent ongoing developments in this field...read more

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9780792327868 | Kluwer Academic Pub, November 1, 1994, cover price $220.00 | About this edition: Metaphor is one of the most frequently evoked but at the same time most poorly understood concepts in philosophy and literary theory.

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9789048143856 | Springer Verlag, December 1, 2010, cover price $269.00 | About this edition: Metaphor is one of the most frequently evoked but at the same time most poorly understood concepts in philosophy and literary theory.

Socratic Epistemology: Explorations of Knowledge-seeking by Questioning

Product Description: Most current work in epistemology deals with the evaluation and justification of information already acquired. In this book, Jaakko Hintikka instead discusses the more important problem of how knowledge is acquired in the first place...read more

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9780521851015 | 1 edition (Cambridge Univ Pr, September 30, 2007), cover price $95.00 | About this edition: Most current work in epistemology deals with the evaluation and justification of information already acquired.

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9780521616515 | 1 edition (Cambridge Univ Pr, September 30, 2007), cover price $28.00 | About this edition: Most current work in epistemology deals with the evaluation and justification of information already acquired.

Knowledge and Belief: An Introduction to the Logic of the Two Notions

Product Description: Knowledge and Belief An Introduction to the Logic of the Two Notions by Jaakko Hintikka Prepared by Vincent F. Hendricks & John Symons In 1962 Jaakko Hintikka published Knowledge and Belief: An Introduction to the Logic of the Two Notions with Cornell University Press...read more

By Vincent F. Hendricks, Jaakko Hintikka and John Symons

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9781904987086 | College Pubns, May 30, 2005, cover price $22.00 | About this edition: Knowledge and Belief An Introduction to the Logic of the Two Notions by Jaakko Hintikka Prepared by Vincent F.

Jaakko Hintikka Selected Papers

Product Description: Vol. 1: Ludwig Wittgenstein: Half-Truths and One-and-a-Half-Truths Because of his legendary impatience, Wittgenstein's published books are focused on his solutions to his latest problems and consequently often fail to explain not only his earlier solutions but also his problem situation...read more

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9781402033308 | Springer Verlag, April 11, 2005, cover price $349.00 | About this edition: Vol.

Analyses of Aristotle

Product Description: Aristotle thought of his logic and methodology as applications of the Socratic questioning method. In particular, logic was originally a study of answers necessitated by earlier answers. For Aristotle, thought-experiments were real experiments in the sense that by realizing forms in one's mind, one can read off their properties and interrelations...read more

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9781402020407 | Kluwer Academic Pub, June 1, 2004, cover price $269.00 | About this edition: Aristotle thought of his logic and methodology as applications of the Socratic questioning method.

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9781402020414 | Kluwer Academic Pub, March 1, 2004, cover price $165.00

Philosophy and Logic in Search of the Polish Tradition: Essays in Honour of Jan Wolenski on the Occasion of His 60th Birthday

Product Description: This volume contains papers on truth, logic, semantics, and history of logic and philosophy. These papers are dedicated to Jan Wolenski to honor his 60th birthday. Jan Wolenski is professor of philosophy at the Department of Philosophy of the Jagiellonian University in Cracow, Poland...read more

By Tadeusz Czarnecki (editor), Jaakko Hintikka (editor), Katarzyna Kijania-Placek (editor), Tomasz Placek (editor) and Artur Rojszczak (editor)

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9781402017216 | Kluwer Academic Pub, November 1, 2003, cover price $140.00 | About this edition: This volume contains papers on truth, logic, semantics, and history of logic and philosophy.

Philosophy and Logic in Search of the Polish Tradition: Essays in Honour of Jan Wolenski on the Occasion of His 60th Birthday

By Tadeusz Czarnecki, Jaakko Hintikka and Artur Rojszczak

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9789048164714 | Springer Verlag, November 1, 2003, cover price $140.00 | About this edition: This volume contains papers on truth, logic, semantics, and history of logic and philosophy.

On Wittgenstein

Product Description: This brief text assists students in understanding Wittgenstein's philosophy and thinking so that they can more fully engage in useful, intelligent class dialogue and improve their understanding of course content. Part of the "Wadsworth Philosophers Series," (which will eventually consist of approximately 100 titles, each focusing on a single "thinker" from ancient times to the present), ON WITTGENSTEIN is written by a philosopher deeply versed in the philosophy of this key thinker...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

By Jaakko Hintikka

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9780534575946 | Wadsworth Pub Co, December 1, 1999, cover price $15.95 | About this edition: This brief text assists students in understanding Wittgenstein's philosophy and thinking so that they can more fully engage in useful, intelligent class dialogue and improve their understanding of course content.

On Godel

Product Description: This brief text assists students in understanding Godel's philosophy and thinking so that they can more fully engage in useful, intelligent class dialogue and improve their understanding of course content. Part of the "Wadsworth Philosophers Series," (which will eventually consist of approximately 100 titles, each focusing on a single "thinker" from ancient times to the present), ON GÖDEL is written by a philosopher deeply versed in the philosophy of this key thinker...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

By Jaakko Hintikka

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9780534575953 | Wadsworth Pub Co, December 1, 1999, cover price $15.95 | About this edition: This brief text assists students in understanding Godel's philosophy and thinking so that they can more fully engage in useful, intelligent class dialogue and improve their understanding of course content.

Inquiry As Inquiry: A Logic of Scientific Discovery

Product Description: Is a genuine logic of scientific discovery possible? In the essays collected here, Hintikka not only defends an affirmative answer; he also outlines such a logic. It is the logic of questions and answers. Thus inquiry in the sense of knowledge-seeking becomes inquiry in the sense of interrogation...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

By Jaakko Hintikka

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9780792354772 | Kluwer Academic Pub, August 1, 1999, cover price $249.00 | About this edition: Is a genuine logic of scientific discovery possible?

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9789048151394 | Springer Verlag, August 1, 1999, cover price $249.00 | About this edition: Is a genuine logic of scientific discovery possible?

The Principles of Mathematics Revisited

Product Description: This book, written by one of philosophy's preeminent logicians, argues that many of the basic assumptions common to logic, philosophy of mathematics and metaphysics are in need of change. Jaakko Hintikka proposes a new basic first-order logic and uses it to explore the foundations of mathematics...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

By Jaakko Hintikka

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9780521496926 | Cambridge Univ Pr, September 1, 1996, cover price $72.99 | About this edition: This book, written by one of philosophy's preeminent logicians, argues that many of the basic assumptions common to logic, philosophy of mathematics and metaphysics are in need of change.

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9780521624985 | Reprint edition (Cambridge Univ Pr, May 1, 1998), cover price $48.00 | About this edition: This book, written by one of philosophy's preeminent logicians, argues that many of the basic assumptions common to logic, philosophy of mathematics and metaphysics are in need of change.

Paradigms for Language Theory and Other Essays

Product Description: Several of the basic ideas of current language theory are subjected to critical scrutiny and found wanting, including the concept of scope, the hegemony of generative syntax, the Frege-Russell claim that verbs like `is' are ambiguous, and the assumptions underlying the so-called New Theory of Reference...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

By Jaakko Hintikka

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9780792347804 | Kluwer Academic Pub, January 1, 1998, cover price $239.00 | About this edition: Several of the basic ideas of current language theory are subjected to critical scrutiny and found wanting, including the concept of scope, the hegemony of generative syntax, the Frege-Russell claim that verbs like `is' are ambiguous, and the assumptions underlying the so-called New Theory of Reference.

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9789048149308 | Springer Verlag, January 1, 1998, cover price $239.00 | About this edition: Several of the basic ideas of current language theory are subjected to critical scrutiny and found wanting, including the concept of scope, the hegemony of generative syntax, the Frege-Russell claim that verbs like `is' are ambiguous, and the assumptions underlying the so-called New Theory of Reference.

Language, Truth and Logic in Mathematics

Product Description: The foundations of mathematics are examined by reference to such crucial concepts as the informational independence of quantifiers, the standard-nonstandard distinction, completeness, computability, parallel processing and the extremality of models. (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

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9780792347668 | Kluwer Academic Pub, October 1, 1997, cover price $269.00 | About this edition: The foundations of mathematics are examined by reference to such crucial concepts as the informational independence of quantifiers, the standard-nonstandard distinction, completeness, computability, parallel processing and the extremality of models.

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9789048149230 | Springer Verlag, October 1, 1997, cover price $269.00 | About this edition: The foundations of mathematics are examined by reference to such crucial concepts as the informational independence of quantifiers, the standard-nonstandard distinction, completeness, computability, parallel processing and the extremality of models.

Lingua Universalis Vs. Calculus Ratiocinator: An Ultimate Presupposition of Twentieth-Century Philosophy

Product Description: Twentieth-century philosophy has tacitly been dominated by a deep contrast between universalist and model-theoretical visions of language. The role of this contrast is studied here in Peirce, Frege, Wittgenstein, Carnap, Quine, Husserl, Heidegger and in the development of logical theory...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

By Jaakko Hintikka

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9780792342465 | Kluwer Academic Pub, December 1, 1996, cover price $259.00 | About this edition: Twentieth-century philosophy has tacitly been dominated by a deep contrast between universalist and model-theoretical visions of language.

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9789048147540 | Springer Verlag, December 1, 1996, cover price $259.00 | About this edition: Twentieth-century philosophy has tacitly been dominated by a deep contrast between universalist and model-theoretical visions of language.

Ludwig Wittgenstein: Half-Truths and One-And-A-Half-Truths

By Jaakko Hintikka

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9780792340911 | Kluwer Academic Pub, August 1, 1996, cover price $259.00 | About this edition: Vol.

Wittgenstein in Florida: Proceedings of the Colloquium on the Philosophy of Ludwig Wittgenstein, Florida State University, 7-8 August 1989

By Jaakko Hintikka (editor)

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9780792313458 | Kluwer Academic Pub, August 1, 1991, cover price $172.00

What If--: Toward Excellence in Reasoning

By James Bachman and Jaakko Hintikka

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9780874849646 | Mayfield Pub Co, February 1, 1991, cover price $68.90

On the Methodology of Linguistics: A Case Study

Product Description: In this book the authors propose to apply ideas from recent philosophy of science, especially Hintikka's "interrogative model of inquiry", to linguistic theorizing. Using the phenomena of co-reference as a testing ground, they examine how Hintikka's game-theoretical semantics (GTS) and Chomsky's government and binding theory (GB) account for the co-reference relations that hold in simple sample sentences...read more

By Jaakko Hintikka and Gabriel Sandu

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9780631177173 | Blackwell Pub, January 1, 1991, cover price $52.95 | About this edition: In this book the authors propose to apply ideas from recent philosophy of science, especially Hintikka's "interrogative model of inquiry", to linguistic theorizing.

Investigating Wittgenstein

Product Description: A revolutioinary interpretation of the work of Ludwig Wittgenstein, this book presents an analysis of his early work in the "Tractatus" and its gradual transformation in the later philosophy of the "Investigations". The authors propose a radical interpretation of the "Tractatus" and argue that the objects of the "Tractatus" are but Russellian objects of acquaintance in disguise...read more

By Jaakko Hintikka and Merrill B. Hintikka

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9780631141815 | Reprint edition (Blackwell Pub, August 1, 1989), cover price $19.95 | About this edition: A revolutioinary interpretation of the work of Ludwig Wittgenstein, this book presents an analysis of his early work in the "Tractatus" and its gradual transformation in the later philosophy of the "Investigations".

The Logic of Epistemology and the Epistemology of Logic: Selected Essays