Models for Modalities

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.

I. Methodological Orientation.- Epistemic Logic and the Methods of Philosophical Analysis.- II. The Logic of Existence.- Existential Presuppositions and Their Elimination.- On the Logic of the Ontological Argument: Some Elementary Remarks.- III. The Semantics of Modality.- Modality and Quantification.- The Modes of Modality.- Semantics for Propositional Attitudes.- Existential Presuppositions and Uniqueness Presuppositions.- IV. Conceptual Analyses.- On the Logic of Perception.- Deontic Logic and Its Philosophical Morals.- Note on the Origin of the Different Essays.- Index of Names.- Index of Subjects.