Paradigms for Language Theory and Other Essays

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.

• 1. “The Games of Logic and the Games of Inquiry”.- 2. “No Scope for Scope?”.- 3. (with Gabriel Sandu) “Informational Independence as a Semantical Phenomenon”.- 4. “‘Is’, Semantical Games, and Semantical Relativity”.- 5. “Logical Form and Linguistic Theory”.- 6. “On the Any-Thesis and the Methodology of Linguistics”.- 7. “Paradigms for Language Theory”.- 8. (with Gabriel Sandu) “The Fallacies of the New Theory of Reference”.- 9. “Perspectival Identification, Demonstratives and ‘Small Worlds’”.- 10. “Game-Theoretical Semantics as a Synthesis of Verificationist and Truth-Conditional Meaning Theories”.- 11. (with Gabriel Sandu) “Metaphor and Other Kinds of Nonliteral Meaning”.