Quantifiers, Questions and Quantum Physics Essays on the Philosophy of Jaakko Hintikka

Jaakko Hintikka is one of the most creative figures in contemporary philosophy. He has made significant contributions to virtually all areas of the discipline, from epistemology and the philosophy of logic to the history of philosophy and the philosophy of science. Part of the fruitfulness of Hintikka’s work is due to its opening important new lines of investigation and new approaches to traditional philosophical problems. This volume gathers together essays from some of Hintikka’s colleagues and former students exploring his influence on their work and pursuing some of the insights that we have found in his work. This book includes a comprehensive overview of Hintikka’s philosophy by Dan Kolak and John Symons and an annotated bibliography of Hintikka’s work.

Hintikka on Epistemological Axiomatizations.- Hintikka on the Problem with the Problem of Transworld Identity.- What is Epistemic Discourse About?.- Interrogative Logic and the Economic Theory of Information.- A Metalogical Critique of Wittgensteinian ‘Phenomenology’.- Theoretical Commensurability By Correspondence Relations: When Empirical Success Implies Theoretical Reference.- What is Abduction?: An Assessment of Jaakko Hintikka's Conception.- The Dialogic of Just Being Different: Hintikka's New Approach to the Notion of Episteme and its Impact on “Second Generation” Dialogics.- Probabilistic Features in Logic Games.- On Some Logical Properties of ‘Is True’.- The Results are in: The Scope and Import of Hintikka's Philosophy.