CURRICULUM
VITAE
- Born
12 January 1929 in Vantaa, Finland.
- Educated
in Finland (Kerava High School, Kerava and University
of Helsinki) and in the United States (Williams College,
exchange student 1948-49).
- Degrees:
Cand. Phil. (Helsinki) 1952, Lic. Phil. (Helsinki)
1952, Dr. Phil. (Helsinki) 1956.
I. Main
Appointments
- Junior
Fellow of the Society of Fellows, Harvard University,
1956-59.
- Professor
of Philosophy, University of Helsinki, 1950-70.
- Professor
of Philosophy, Stanford University (part-time) 1965-82.
- Research
Professor, Academy of Finland, 1970-81.
- Professor
of Philosophy, Florida State University, 1978-90.
- Professor
of Philosophy, Boston University, 1990-present.
II.
Other Academic Appointments
- Docent
in Philosophy, University of Helsinki, 1955-59, 1982-92.
- Visiting
Professor, Brown University, Fall 1962.
- Visiting
Professor, University of California, Berkeley, Spring
1963.
- Assistant
Dean of the Faculty of Social Sciences, University
of Helsinki, 1963-66.
- Fellow
of the Center for Advanced Study in Behavioral Sciences,
1970-71.
- Visiting
Professor, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Spring
1974.
- Courtesy
Professor, Department of Computer Science, Florida
State University, 1986-90.
III.
Memberships and Offices Held
- American
Philosophical Association (APA). Vice-President of
the Pacific Division, 1974-75; President of the Division,
1975-76; Member of the committee for International
Co-operation, 1972-82.
- International
Union of of History and Philosophy of Science, Vice-President
of the Division of Logic, Methodology, and Philosophy
of Science (LMPS) 1971-75; President, 1975; Chairman
of the Program Committee for the Fifth International
Congress of LMPS 1975; Chairman of the Joint Commission
1975-79.
- Association
for Symbolic Logic, Vice-President, 1968-71.
- Fellow
of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, 1974-present.
- Philosophy
of Science Association, Member of the Governing Board,
1970-74.
- Fellow
of the Institut International de Philosophie, 1968-present,
Vice-President 1993-96.
- Fédération
Internationale des Sociétés de Philosophie,
Member of the Comité Directeur, 1978-88, 1993-98;
Member of the Finance Committee of the same, 1979-88,
Chair of the Committee, 1983-88, 193-98.
- Co-chair
of the American Organizing committee for the Twentieth
World Congress of Philosophy.
- Scientific
Advisor and Foreign member of the Internationales Forschungszentrum
Salzburg (Salzburg, Austria), 1966-present.
- Member
of the Academy of Science and Letters of Finland, 1961-present;
Member of the Council 1971-79.
- Fellow
of Societas Scientiarum Fennica, 1966-present.
- Council
for Philosophical Studies, 1982-86.
- Member
of the Norwegian Academy of Science and Letters, 1991-present.
IV.
Honors
- Ernst
Lindelöf Prize, University of Helsinki, 1952.
- John
Locke Lectures, Oxford University, 1964.
- W.
T. Jones Lectures, Pomona College, 1975.
- Wihuri
International Prize, 1976.
- Guggenheim
Fellow, 1979-80.
- Phi
Beta Kappa (honorary), Williams College chapter, 1983.
- Hägerström
Lectures, University of Uppsala, 1983.
- Honorary
Doctorate, University of Liége.
- Immanuel
Kant Lectures, Stanford University, 1985.
- Florida
State University Foundation Professor, 1986-90 (renamed
McKenzie Professor, 1989).
- Commander
of the Order of the Lion of Finland, First Class, 1987.
- E.
J. Nyström Prize of the Societas Scientiarum Fennica,
1988.
- Erik
Ahlman Lecture, University of Jyväskylä,
1988.
- The
Grand Prize of Suomen Kulttuurirahasto, Finland, 1989.
- Honorary
Doctorate, Jagiellonian University of Krakow, 1995.
V.
Editorial Positions Held
- Editor-in-Chief,
international journal Synthese (Dordrecht), 1965-76,
1982-present; Senior Advisory Editor, Synthese, 1976-82.
- Editor,
Synthese Library (Dordrecht), 1965-75; Managing Editor,
Synthese Library, 1975-present. Managing Co-editor,
Synthese Language Library (Dordrecht), 1976-84.
- Editor,
Acta Philosophica Fennica, 1974-79.
- Consulting
Editor of over ten journals or series.
VI.
Areas of Interest (Research, Teaching, and/or Advising)
- Philosophy
of Language and Theoretical Linguistics (game-theoretical
semantics, methodology of linguistics, logic and semantics
of questions and of question-based dialogues, semantic
information and its varieties, the analytic-synthetic
distinction, possible-worlds semantics, etc.).
- Foundations
of Cognitive Science (interrogative model of inquiry,
differences between information-processing by humans
and computers, knowledge representation and reasoning
about knowledge, the psychology of reasoning, mental
models, etc.).
- Philosophical
Logic (semantics of intensional logics, game-theoretical
semantics, independence-friendly logics, nonstandard
interpretations of logic, problems of induviduation
and identification, nature of reasoning, urn models,
deductive information, etc.).
- Mathematical
Logic and Foundations of Mathematics (distributive
normal forms, independence friendly logic, definability,
infinitely deep languages, extremality assumptions
in mathematical theories, etc.).
- Philosophy
of Science (interrogative models of scientific inquiry,
the concepts of experiment and induction, why-questions
and explanation, inductive logic, decision-theoretical
approaches to theory choice, information as utility,
identifiability problems in science, theory structure
and the different ingredients of an empirical theory,
interplay between history of science and philosophy
of science, etc.).
- History
of Philosophy and History of Ideas (Aristotle, the
general assumptions of Greek philosophy, modal concepts
in medival philosophy, Descartes, Leibniz, Kant, the
history of the method of analysis, the
"principle of plenitude" in the history of
philosophy, methodology of the history of ideas, etc.).
- Interpretations
of Recent and Contemporary Philosophy (Frege, Peirce,
Russell, the Bloomsbury Group, Wittgenstein, Husserl,
Carnap, Quine, etc.).
- Philosophy
of Education (models of instruction, the role of questions
and answers in education, etc.).
- Aesthetics
(problems of pictrial representation, philosophy and
literature, intentionalty and artistic creation, etc.).
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