Socratic Epistemology

Jaakko Hintikka is an internationally renowned philosopher known as the main architect of game-theoretical semantics and of the interrogative approach to inquiry, as well as one of the architects of distributive normal forms, possible-worlds semantics, tree methods, infinitely deep logics, and present-day-theory of inductive generalization. Currently a Professor of Philosophy at Boston University, he is the author of more than thirty books and has received a number of honors, most recently the Rolf Schock Prize for Logic and Philosophy, for his pioneering contributions to the logical analysis for modal concepts, in particular the concepts of knowledge and belief.

Introduction; 1. Epistemology without knowledge and without belief; 2. Abduction: inference, conjecture, or an answer to a question?; 3. Second-generation epistemic logic and its general significance; 4. Presuppositions and other limitations of inquiry; 5. The place of the a priori in epistemology; 6. Systems of visual identification and neuroscience: lessons from epistemic logic with John Symons; 7. Logical explanations; 8. Who has kidnapped the notion of information?; 9. A fallacious fallacy?; 10. Omitting data: ethical or strategic problem?