The Intentions of Intentionality and Other New Models for Modalities

ISBN-13: 9789027706348 / Angielski / Miękka / 1975 / 268 str.

Jaakko Hintikka

Opis

The leisure to do the thinking whose results are gathered here has largely been provided by the Academy of Finland, whose support has also made possible the help and co-operation of a group of younger logicians and philosophers. Less tangible support and help is unfortunately harder to record and to thank for. Once again, in working on the many themes I have tried to weave together in this book I have incurred more intellectual and moral debts I can in so many words acknowledge here. Let me only say that the closer to home I get the greater they become. I have especially in mind my colleagues and students at Stanford; my colleagues in Helsinki; the past and present members of my research group in Helsinki; and incom parably more than anybody else my wife Soili. Helsinki, April 1975 JAAKKO HINTIKKA INTRODUCTION A literal-minded reader might easily object to the (sub)title of this volume. What is to be found here, he might allege, are neither models, nor modalities stricto sensu, nor yet any completely new applications of modal logic. Even though the purpose of the title is only to signal the con tinuity between the present volume and its predecessor, Models for Modalities (D. Reidel Publishing Co., Dordrecht, 1969), the objection is sufficiently well taken to serve as an excuse for an attempt to put my enterprise in a wider perspective."

Spis treści

1. Different Constructions in Terms of the Basic Epistemological Verbs: A Survey of Some Problems and Proposals.- 2. The Semantics of Modal Notions and the Indeterminacy of Ontology.- 3. Objects of Knowledge and Belief: Acquaintances and Public Figures.- 4. Information, Causality, and the Logic of Perception.- 5. Carnap’s Heritage in Logical Semantics.- 6. Quine on Quantifying in: A Dialogue.- 7. Answers to Questions.- 8. Grammar and Logic: Some Borderline Problems.- 9. Knowledge, Belief, and Logical Consequence.- 10. The Intentions of Intentionality.- 11. Concept as Vision: On the Problem of Representation in Modern Art and in Modern Philosophy.- Index of Names.- Index of Subjects.

O autorze

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.