Jaakko Hintikka
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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.
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Born | Jaakko Kaarlo Juhani Hintikka (1929-01-12)12 January 1929 Helsingin maalaiskunta, Finland |
Died | 12 August 2015(2015-08-12) (aged 86) Porvoo, Finland |
Nationality | Finnish |
Education | University of Helsinki (Ph.D., 1953) |
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Era | 20th-century philosophy |
Region | Western philosophy |
School | Analytic philosophy |
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Thesis | Distributive Normal Forms in the Calculus of Predicates (1953) |
Doctoral advisor | Georg Henrik von Wright |
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