Ahti-Veikko J.
Pietarinen
Professor, PhD
refereed publications, since 2000
129. "Two Challenges for Fictionalism in Mathematics". To appear in Journal for General Philosophy of Science. (Preliminary version appeared in Philosophy, Mathematics, Linguistics: Aspects of Intergration, St. Petersburg: The Institution of the Russian Academy of Sciences, 141-145, 2010.)
Fictionalism in philosophy of mathematics faces two objections: mathematical practices and Brouwer‟s intuitionism. The philosophy of mathematical practices is traced back to Peirce‟s pragmaticism. The argument concerns the modalisation of mathematical entities at the heart of substantive fictionalism: they to assume a metaphysical notion of modality that is unviable from the point of view of scholastic realism and fallibility of mathematical practices. Another challenge comes from Brouwer‟s languageless conception of mathematics. It is pointed out that fictionalism and its offshoot of figuralism fail to analyse the semantics of the specific tropes on which they nevertheless rest their arguments.
128. "The Ups and Downs of Analytic Philosophy", The Yearbook of the Chinese Association of Analytic Philosophy, in press. (Preliminary version published in the Proceedings of the Sixth National Conference on Analytic Philosophy in China, Taiyuan: Shanxi University Press, 17-26, 2010.)
Has analytic philosophy accomplished what it was set out to do in the late 19th and early 20th century? I address the question from the points of view of three remarks: (i) That the terms ‘analytic’ and ‘continental’ have become misnomers; (ii) that analytic philosophy has transmogrified into exegetic forms of ‘rational reconstruction’ driven by ‘intuitions’; (iii) that analytic philosophy is and has been ‘narrow’ in both the positive and negative senses of the term.
127. "Christine Ladd-Franklin's and Victoria Welby's Correspondence with Charles Peirce". To appear in Semiotica, special issue on Significs and Victoria Welby.
126. "Carnapian Tolerance, Menger, and the Early US Pragmatists", in Heinzmann, G. et al. (eds), Logic and Rational Reconstruction of Science from a Pragmatic Point of View (Logic, Epistemology and the Unity of Science Series), Dordrecht: Springer, to appear.
125. "Peirce and Husserl in Professor Stjernfelt's Diagrammatology", Cognitive Semiotics: Multidisciplinary Journal of Meaning and Mind, to appear.
These two review papers form a continuing discussion on the contributions Peirce‘s diagrammatic epistemology and logic will have to a broad range of issues at the intersections of philosophy, logic, cognitive sciences and cognitive semiotics.
124. "Murphyn 'mielen laki'" ("Murphy's 'Law of Mind'"), to appear.
It is shown that Peirce's 1892 formulation of the 'Law of Mind' is an almost direct adaptation of the idea in John J. Murphy's book Habit and Intelligence, which Peirce had studied since 1879.
123. "Peirce's Magic Lantern: Moving Pictures of Thought", Transactions of the Charles S. Peirce Society: A Quarterly Journal in American Philosophy (Winner of the Charles S. Peirce Society's 2003 Peirce Essay Contest), to appear.
122. "Iconic Logic of Metaphors", Journal of Cognitive Science, under revision.
I sketch a theory of metaphors that takes metaphoric meaning to be a matter of iconic (diagrammatic) forms of logic. Like icons in general, metaphors evoke similarity considerations and representations of parallelisms in another media. I argue that the existence of metaphors is a strong argument for the fundamentally iconic modes of logic operative in cognition and reasoning. Such modes stand in stark contrast to a number of prevailing theories in the philosophy of mind, language and cognition, including the language of thought hypothesis, meaning holism, and conceptual metaphor theories.
121. "On the Conceptual Underpinnings of Organisational Semiotics", under revision.
Organisational semiotics has predominantly been concerned on the problem of how to bring the notion of information to bear on semiotic accounts of social organisations. This paper analyses the theoretical and conceptual elements involved in this endeavour. Two notions stand out: the meaning of information and the idea that organisations are sign-theoretic systems. It is argued that the level of the social is superfluous over and above the semantic and the pragmatic. The sense in which social constructionism fails is exposed. The proposed conceptual changes are liable to lead to progress in ICT design. These changes are also vital in applying semiotics to economics and the social sciences influenced by foundational questions on the nature of information technology.
120. "Voiko ajattelu olla kriittistä ilman argumentteja?" ("Can Thinking Be Critical without arguments?"), Reports from the Department of Philosophy, Turku: University of Turku, in press.
It is argued that critical thinking may be allied with logic and argumentation theory only if it takes place in the contexts of the discovery of arguments.
119. "The Question-Answer Structures in Cognition", Proceedings of the 10th World Congress in Semiotics, La Coruña, in press.
118. "Peirce and Deacon on the Meaning and Evolution of Language", in F. Stjernfelt & T. Schilhab (eds), New Perspectives on the Symbolic Species, Dordrecht: Springer, in press.
According to pragmaticism, the meaning of signs is in the habitual practices and activities by which we acquire information that connect signs with other signs and their objects. Deacon (1997) takes meaning to be explicated by the uniquely human capacity for symbolic reference. The evolution of language is couched in adaptive co-evolution that overcomes the symbolic threshold by increased social selection pressures. Peirce, on the other hand, understood evolution ‘agapastically’: it is not the selective mechanisms that direct the adaptation, say, of neural structures, but the growth of habits of action that are in continuous interaction with one another. I argue that Deacon’s and Peirce’s positions on the meaning of signs and the evolution of linguistic meaning share some similarities but also differ in a couple of fundamental respects.
117. "Yhden versus monen maailman filosofit" ("One versus Many World Philosophers"), in J. Kotkavirta, O.-P. Moisio, S. Pihlström & H. Seinälä (eds.), Maailma, Jyväskylä: SoPhi, in press. (Proceedings of the Annual Colloquium of the Finnish Philosophical Society.)
A one-world philosopher is by necessity also a revisionist metaphysician whose image of the world must satisfy some predetermined criterion. This vision is with a high probability false and leads to universalism and conceptual relativism. The alternative is the many-worlds philosophy, which permits indefinite variability of meaning and hypotheses not unlike in descriptive metaphysics.
116. "Why Is the Normativity of Logic Based on Rules?", in C. De Waal & K. P. Skowronski (eds.), The Normative Thought of Charles S. Peirce, Oxford: Oxford University Press, in press.
Peirce took logic to be a normative science. What does this mean? Rules govern self-controlled action, all communication is in signs, logical thought and habits are self-controlled, and logic is semeiotic. Self-controlled agents have normative ideals in the mind as they converse upon the meaning of intellectual signs and purports. Habits are many-world entities that link situations to actions, and the rules of meaning-constitutive practices and activities provide the logical and strategic structure for habits. This paper argues that normativity not grounded in rules governing meaning-constitutive practices is inconsistent. The argument lies in the core of the proof of pragmaticism and manifests a model-theoretic view of logic.
115. "A. B. Johnson", in John R. Shook (ed.), Dictionary of Early American Philosophers, Thoemmes Continuum Press, in press.
114. "Peirce and the Logic of Image", Semiotica, in press.
113. "A Hedgehog Who Thought He Was a Fox: Dewey betwixt the One and Many-World Philosophies, in L. A. Hickman, M. C. Flamm, K. P. Skowronski & J. A. Rea (eds.), The Continuing Relevance of John Dewey: Reflections on Aesthetics, Morality, Science, and Society, Amsterdam: Rodopi, 225-241.
I argue for a new interpretation of John Dewey’s logic & metaphysics that sees his thinking pulling into two opposing directions: His sound appreciation of meta-systematic perspective to scientific inquiry failed to reconcile with his ‘one-world’ presupposition about the theory of meaning. Ultimately, then, Dewey missed the promising opportunity of evaluating problematic situations with respect to unactualized possibilities.
112. "Remarks on the Peirce-Schiller Correspondence", in E. H. Oleksy & W. Oleksy (eds.), Transatlantic Encounters: Philosophy, Media, Politics, Frankfurt am Main: Peter Lang, 61-70.
The correspondence reveals, among others, that Peirce and Schiller, quite surprisingly, shared a common enemy in the emerging 'Russellisation' of logic that is hyperformal, non-interpreted in its language, non-anthropological in its epistemology, and suggesting a compartmentalisation of things into logical and extra-logical. At the end, however, Schiller is an actualist pluralist while Peirce a many-worlds philosopher about the reality of modalities and a pluralist about methodology.
111. "Principles and Practices of Neurath's Picture Language", in O. Pombo, S. Rahman & J. M. Torres (eds.). Otto Neurath and the Unity of Science (Logic, Epistemology, and the Unity of Science 18), Dordrecht: Springer, 71-82.
Neurath’s vision for new graphical communication through ISOTYPE is extremely interesting from the point of view of modern philosophy of language. This paper brings to the fore the key presuppositions of his picture language for the first time. I argue for the surprising conclusion that Neurath was in fact a calculist about meaning. Therefore, his vision for new ‘multimodal’ modes of communication suggests that the Unity of Science programme might have surpassed the logical empiricists’ attempts – if only it had been continued towards the logic of images, which Neurath did not do.
110. "Existential Graphs: What the Diagrammatic Logic of Cognition Might Look Like", History and Philosophy of Logic 32(3), 265-281. (Preliminary version appeared in 2008, Proceedings of the 7th International Conference on Logic and Cognition, Guangzhou: Sun Yat-Sen University.) (Translation in Chinese, to appear.)
This paper is a systematic and historical study on the diagrammatic logic of Existential Graphs. It brings out a number of hitherto unknown historical and logical facts concerning both the genesis and the reception of Existential Graphs a century ago.
109. "Moving Pictures of Thought II: Graphs, Games, and Pragmaticism's Proof", Semiotica 186, 315-331. (Translation in Portuguese, to appear.)
Here a reconstruction of Peirce’s claimed ‘Proof of Pragmaticism” is presented for the first time. The argument draws both on unpublished manuscript material and an application of modern game-theoretic semantics and pragmatics to the analysis of the pragmaticist theory of meaning.
2010
108.
"Which Philosophy of Mathematics is Pragmaticism?",
in M. Moore (ed.), New Essays on Peirce's
Mathematical Philosophy, Chicago:
107. "Peirce's Pragmatic Theory of Proper Names", Transactions of the Charles S. Peirce Society 46, 341-363.
I refute the earlier claims in the literature according to which Peirce’s theory of names was an anticipation of the ‘new theory of reference’. I show in which senses his theory spells out (i) a wide non-descriptive theory of the denotation of proper names than what is provided by causal-historical theories and (ii) a unique non-substitutional theory of quantification.
106. "Challenges and Opportunities for Existential Graphs", in M. Bergman, S. Paavola, A.-V. Pietarinen & H. Rydenfelt (eds.), Ideas in Action: Proceedings of the Applying Peirce Conference, Nordic Studies in Pragmatism 1, Helsinki: Nordic Pragmatism Network, 288-303.
105. "How to Analyse Rigid Designation? World Lines and Imperfect Information" (revised). Preliminary version appeared in Arrazola, Xabier and María Ponte (eds.), 2010, Proceedings of the Second ILCLI International Workshop on Logic and Philosophy of Knowledge, Communication and Action, San Sebastian: University of the Basque Country Press, 351-369.
Informationally independent extensions of first-order epistemic logics (Pietarinen 2002a, 2002b, 2003) throw new light on the philosophical question of the identity of the objects of our knowledge. This paper defines a match between quantifier independence on epistemic modalities and imperfect information in the associated semantic games. A uniform domains assumption for the new logics is singled out. It is then pointed out how 'logical pragmatics' emerges out of epistemic logics: what is transcendental with respect to quantification are the ways in which trans-world identities are given. Trans-world identities, in turn, are results of player-level knowledge. Consequently, rigid designation is not a primitive notion of how objects behave in modal contexts but a degenerate form of world-line identities, themselves constitutive of objects of agent's specific knowledge.
104. "Two Challenges for Fictionalism in Mathematics" (revised). In Philosophy, Mathematics, Linguistics: Aspects of Intergration, St. Petersburg: The Institution of the Russian Academy of Sciences, 141-145.
103. "Is Non-visual Diagrammatic Logic Possible?" In A. Gerner (ed.), Diagrammatology and Diagram Praxis, London: College Publications.
I propose a logic that has no visual and no written appearance: no symbols, no marks, no language. How is this conceivable? The answer builds upon a wide understanding of diagrammatic logic. Peirce's category of diagrams was not confined to visual forms of representation. My case study here concerns developing a propositional part of diagrammatic logic based on auditory signs of sounds instead of spatial signs of graphs.
102.
"Pragmaticism as an Antifoundationalist
Philosophy of Mathematics”, in B. Van Kerkhove, R. Desmet and J. P. Van Bendegem
(eds.), Philosophical Perspectives on
Mathematical Practice,
101. "Why Pragmaticism is neither Structuralism nor Fictionalism", Myunghyung Lee (ed.), Proceedings of the XXII World Congress of Philosophy, Seoul: Korean Philosophical Association.
Despite some surface similarities, Peirce’s philosophy of mathematics is incompatible with both mathematical structuralism and fictionalism. Pragmaticism has to do with experimentation and observation concerning the forms of relations in diagrammatic and iconic representations of mathematical entities. It does not presuppose mathematical foundations although it has such representations as its objects of study. But these objects have a reality which both structuralism and fictionalism must deny.
100. "Miten kysymys vapaasta tahdosta tulisi asettaa? ("How to Ask the Question about Free Will?"), Synteesi 2010:2. ISSN 0359-5242.
99. "Ajatusten liikkuvat kuvat: representaatio logiikassa" ("Representation in logic: moving pictures of thought"), in T. Knuuttila & A. Lehtinen (eds), Representaatio: Tiedon kivijalasta tieteiden työkaluksi, Helsinki: Gaudeamus, 94-108.
2009
98. "Significs and the Origins of Analytic Philosophy", Journal of the History of Ideas 70(3), 467-490.
Based on unpublished correspondence and material from the Welby archives, I investigate and evaluate the significance and relevance of the Significs Movement to the development of linguistic analysis in early analytic philosophy.
97. "Uskomusten muodostaminen ja muokkaaminen" ("Fixing and Revising Beliefs"), in Pietarinen, A.-V., Pihlström, S. & Toppinen P. (eds.), USKO: Philosophical Studies from the Department of Philosophy 22, Helsinki: University of Helsinki, 77-82.
96. "Esthetic Interpretants: Pragmaticism, Semiotics, and the Meaning of Art", Chinese Semiotic Studies: Journal of the International Institute for Semiotic Studies. Nanjing Normal University Press, 223-229.
Peirce’s esthetics is best understood from the points of view of pragmaticism and the theory of signs. Esthetics is shown to be a theory of general habits of feeling, which requires introducing an esthetic interpretant. An argument is presented which establishes that pragmaticism is a fundamental theory about the application of esthetic meaning to the works of art.
95. "Matematiikan ja logiikan filosofia, Hintikan tapaan" ("The Philosophy of Mathematics and Logic, According to Hintikka"), in J. Manninen & R. Vilkko (eds.), Ajattelun välineet ja maailmat: Kirjoituksia Jaakko Hintikan filosofiasta, Helsinki: Gaudeamus, 19-28.
94.
"Tieteestä
taiteeseen: Käytännöt Peircen merkitysteoriassa"
("From Science to the Arts: Practices in Peirce’s Theory of Meaning"), in
93. "Entry" in Gabbay, Dov M. and John Woods (eds.), The International Directory of Logicians - Who's Who in Logic, London: College Publications, 271-273.
2008
92. (ed., with O. Majer
& T. Tulenheimo), Games:
Unifying Logic, Language, and Philosophy
91. "Sphere Semantics for Aspects", Studies in Logic 1(3), 19-31.
We introduce sphere semantics, which derives from Tarski’s geometry of solids, and applies it to aspectual phenomena in natural language. Sphere semantics is particularly geared for the English progressive. The approach has the following virtues: (i) It extends interval-based semantics but omits its pitfalls, (ii) it solves the imperfective puzzle, and (iii) the proposed solution needs no appeal to the strategy of eventual outcomes.
90. "Huomioita kuvallisen logiikan
filosofiasta" ("Notes on the philosophy of iconic logic"), in
L. Haaparanta, T. Klemola, J. Kotkavirta & S. Pihlström (eds.) Kuva, Acta Philosophica Tamperensia 5,
Tampere: Tampere University
Press, 253-262.
89. "The Place of Logic in Pragmatism", Cognitio 9(1), 247-260.
The tendency in contemporary discussion to neglect the logical roots of pragmatistic philosophy is a symptom of taking language as a universal medium of expression. My thesis is that the two presuppositions concerning the role of logic in pragmatism - universalism and calculism - delineate pragmatism and pragmaticism. I conclude that the latter, Peirce’s original formulation, is methodologically the more tolerant of the two and hence in fact embraces pluralism over and above pragmatism.
88. “The Proof of Pragmatism: Comments on Christopher Hookway”, Cognitio 9(1), 85-92.
Chris Hookway’s paper concerning Peirce’s ‘middle’ proof of pragmatism appeals to the logic of existential graphs. I argue that behind Peirce’s restatement of the principle of pragmatism ("The possible is what can become actual") is the logic of modalities he developed in the Gamma part of his theory of Existential Graphs.
87. “Diagrammatic Logic of Existential Graphs: A Case Study of Commands”, in G. Stapleton, J. Howse, and J. Lee (eds.), Diagrammatic Representation and Inference, Lecture Notes in Computer Science 5223, Heidelberg: Springer, 404-407.
We suggest an application of diagrammatic logic of commands to the cases where (i) minimal reaction time to commands is of essence, (ii) a full comprehension of the meaning of imperatives (‘search for their objects’) is needed, and (iii) an effective discrimination of commands from other non-declarative moods is critical.
86.
"Implicit vs. Explicit in Epistemic Logic and Cognitive
Neuroscience", Proceedings of the
First International Conference on Advanced Intelligence,
Beijing: Post & Telecom Press of China.
85.
"Who Plays Games in Philosophy?" in B. Hale (ed.), Philosophy
Looks at Chess,
84.
“An Iconic Logic of Metaphors” (revised version), in Proceedings of the 6th International
Conference of Cognitive Science,
2007
83.
(ed.) Game
Theory and Linguistic Meaning, (Current Research in the
Semantics/Pragmatics Interface 18),
82. "On Historical Pragmatics and Peircean Pragmatism", Linguistics and the Human Sciences 2(1), 123-143.
Historical pragmatics constitutes both the subject matter and methodology. In this paper, we relate the scientific methodology of historical pragmatics to the opinions shared by some 19th century linguists and philosophers. In particular, (i) Peirce’s semiotics is related to the study of meaning change, and (ii) his opinions on hypothesis selection to historical research to historical pragmatics. The conclusion is that historical pragmatics is hermeneutic, but that economic and evolutionary considerations square it from the hermeneutic circle.
81. “Abductive Issues in Peirce’s Proof of Pragmaticism”, in O. Pombo and A. Gerner (eds), Abduction and the Process of Scientific Discovery, Lisboa: Centro de Filosofia das Ciências da Universidade de Lisboa, 303-320.
We establish three interrelated theses: (i) that Peirce's pragmaticism incorporates abduction, (ii) that it is a consequence of several fundamental assumptions that can be shown to build a logically sound argument for its correctness, and (iii) that abduction features in pragmaticism in contributing to the argument in terms of two fundamental steps towards its conclusion.
80. "Semantic
Games and Generalised Quantifiers", in A.-V.
Pietarinen (ed.), Game
Theory and Linguistic Meaning,
We marry generalised quantifiers with game-theoretic semantics (GTS). Semantic game rules for various types of generalised quantifiers are defined. Game semantics is argued to surpass relational semantics in that it provides (i) a generic method of dealing with context-dependent quantifiers in terms of strategic content and (ii) a genera semantics for branching generalised quantifiers.
79. "The Semantics/Pragmatics
Distinction from the Game-Theoretic Point of View", in A.-V. Pietarinen
(ed.), Game
Theory and Linguistic Meaning,
We examine the conceptual interplay between semantic and pragmatic aspects of linguistic meaning from the game-theoretic standpoint. We find a negative result: that which is semantic and that which is pragmatic in language cannot be distinguished by rule-governed and structural features of game theory. The sole difference is whether players entertain epistemic relationships with respect to the solution concepts and strategy profiles in the game-theoretic analysis of linguistic meaning. This means that, theoretically, the distinction is illusory.
78.
"An Invitation to Language and Games", in A.-V. Pietarinen (ed.), Game
Theory and Linguistic Meaning,
77.
"Getting Closer to Iconic Logic", in G. Dodig-Crnkovic
and S. Stuart (eds),
Computing, Information and Cognition:The Nexus and The Liminal,
Visual and non-symbolic representational systems are increasingly important in logic, computing and cognitive sciences. Peirce proposed a logic for representing and reasoning about "actions of the mind in thought" using iconic signs, amounting to the diagrammatic logic of Existential Graphs. Some of the key notions of his systems are explored and placed into the context of our cognitive and computational realm. It is argued that a diagrammatic logic needs to be expanded in multiple ways in order to attain a comprehensive logic of icons.
76. "Kuinka pragmatisismi todistetaan" ("How to Prove Pragmaticism"), Ajatus 63 (Yearbook of the Finnish Philosophical Society), 119-138.
2006
75.
Signs
of Logic: Peircean Themes on the Philosophy of Language, Games, and
Communication, (Synthese Library 329),
74.
(ed., with T. Aho), Truth
and Games,
73. "Interdisciplinarity and Peirce's Classification of the Sciences: A Centennial Reassessment", Perspectives on Science 14, 127-152.
72. "The Evolution of Semantics and Language Games for Meaning", Interaction Studies: Social Behaviour and Communication in Biological and Artificial Systems 7, 79-104.
71. "Peirce's Contributions to Possible-worlds Semantics", Studia Logica 82, 345-369.
Here it is shown that by 1906, Peirce had contemplated versions of possible-worlds and game-theoretic semantics to interpret his new systems of modal logic, but instead of accessibility relation decided in favour of a continuity interpretation.
70.
"Peirce, Habermas, and Strategic Dialogues: From
Pragmatism to the Pragmatics of Communication",
69.
(with L. Snellman)
"On Peirce's Late Proof of
Pragmaticism", in T. Aho and A.-V. Pietarinen (eds), Truth
and Games,
68.
"Semantiikan historiaa
Suomessa vuosina 1900-1950" ("The History of Semantics in Finland in
1900-1950"), Virittäjä 110, 70-84.
67. "Game Theory"; "Significs", in A. Grayling, A. Pyle & N. Goulder (eds), The Continuum Encyclopedia of British Philosophers, London: Thoemmes Continuum, 1180; 2931-2932.
66.
"Early Cognitive Science: A Challenge to Analytic Philosophy?", in H.J. Koskinen,
2005
65.
"Relevance Theory Through Pragmatic Theories of
Meaning", Proceedings of the XXVII Annual Meeting of the Cognitive
Science Society, Alpha:
64. "Approximative Reasoning and Fuzzy Queries with Linguistic Quantification in Prolog databases", Proc. WSEAS/IASME International Conference on Computational Intelligence, Man-Machine Systems and Cybernetics.
63.
"Kielellisen merkityksen
elämä" ("The Life of Linguistic Meaning"), in J. Haukioja and J.
Räikkä (ed.), Elämän merkitys, Kuopio: UNIpress, 157-166.
62. "Logiikkaa kuvina"
("Logic in Pictures"), niin & näin: Filosofinen Aikakauslehti 45,
51-55. (Tampere University Press)
61. "Logiikan tila ja
tulevaisuus" ("The State and Future of Logic"), niin &
näin: Filosofinen Aikakauslehti 45, 43-48.
(
60. "Evolutionary Game-theoretic Semantics and Its Foundational Status", in N. Gontier, J. P. Van Bendegem and D. Aerts, (eds), Evolutionary Epistemology, Language and Culture: A Nonadaptationist Systems-theoretical Approach (Theory and Decision Library B), Dordrecht: Springer, 429-452.
59. "Cultivating Habits of Reason: Peirce and the Logica Utens versus Logica Docens Distinction", History of Philosophy Quarterly 22, 357-372.
Contemporary logic and cognitive science have partially revived the old idea of the possibility of theorizing about the nature of the instinctive faculty of logic, the logica utens. This paper sets the agenda and argues that the logic of discovery, abduction and imaginative and iconic thought are the key parts of the puzzle.
58. "The Composition of Concepts and Peirce's Pragmatic Logic", in E. Machery, M. Werning and G. Schurtz (eds), The Compositionality of Concepts and Meanings: Foundational Issues, Ontos-Verlag, 247-270.
57. "Sphere Semantics for Aspect", in Karlsson, Fred (ed.), Papers from the 20th Scandinavian Conference of Linguistics, Department of General Linguistics, University of Helsinki. (Revised and extended journal publication as 111.)
56. "Compositionality, Relevance and Peirce's Logic of Existential Graphs", Axiomathes 15, 513-540.
55. "Charles S. Peirce", in S. Chapman and C. Routledge (eds), Key Thinkers in Linguistics and the Philosophy of Language, Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 203-204.
54. "Ludwig Wittgenstein", in S. Chapman and C. Routledge (eds), Key Thinkers in Linguistics and the Philosophy of Language, Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 271-278.
53.
"Some Games Logic Plays", in D. Vanderveken
(ed.), Logic,
Thought and Action,
52.
"IF Logic and
Games of Incomplete Information", in J. van Benthem
et al. (eds), The
Age of Alternative Logics: Assessing the Philosophy of Logic and Mathematics
Today,
2004
51. "Grice in the Wake of Peirce", Pragmatics & Cognition 12, 295-315.
This paper argues for the truth of the hypothesis that Grice was guided by the principles of Peirce’s semiotics in his formulation of the theory of meaning and the logic of conversation. [Postscript 2011: This hypothesis was proven correct several years later when it was found in the Grice archives that in 1947 he had held a lecture course entitled “Peirce’s General Theory of Signs” at Oxford.]
50. (with T. Tulenheimo), Introduction to IF Logic, ESSLLI 2004 Lecture Notes, Université Henri Poincaré, Nancy, European Association for Logic, Language and Information (FoLLI), 102 pages.
49.
"Kielto ja kierto" ("Negation and Reversal", with G. Sandu), in H. Gylling, S. Albert Kivinen and R. Vilkko (eds), Kielto
(Negation),
48.
"Extending Defeasible Reasoning and Defeasible Prolog", in R. López
de Mantaras and L. Saitta (eds), Frontiers in Artificial
Intelligence and Applications,
47.
"Evolutionary Game Theory and the Semantic/Pragmatic Change", Proceedings
of the 1st International Workshop on the Emergence and Evolution of Linguistic
Communication,
46. "Logic, Phenomenology and Neuroscience: In Cahoots?", in G. Büchel, B. Klein and T. Roth-Berghofer (eds), Proceedings of the 1st International Workshop on Philosophy and Informatics, CEUR Workshop Proceedings 112, Technical University of Aachen (RWTH).
45. "Agenda Cognitive Linguistics: C. S. Peirce and the Emergence of the Common Ground", Text Processing and Cognitive Technologies 9, 208-214.
44. "Peirce's Diagrammatic Logic in IF Perspective", in A. Blackwell, K. Marriott and A. Shimojima (eds), Diagrammatic Representation and Inference: Third International Conference, Diagrams 2004, Cambridge, UK, Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence 2980, Berlin: Springer, 97-111.
43. "Multi-agent Systems and Game Theory: A Peircean Manifesto", International Journal of General Systems 33, 294-314.
42. "The Endoporeutic Method", J. Queiroz (ed.), The Digital Encyclopedia of Charles S. Peirce.
41.
"Towards Cognitive Informatics: Awareness in the Brain, Logic and
Cognitive Neuroscience, in Y. Wang (ed.), Cognitive Informatics: Exploring
the Natural Intelligence,
40.
"IF Logic, Game-theoretical Semantics, and Philosophy of Science"
(with G. Sandu), in S. Rahman,
D. Gabbay, J. P. Van Bendegem,
J. Symons (eds), Logic,
Epistemology and the Unity of Science,
39.
"Semantic Games in Logic and Epistemology", in
38.
"Diagrammatic Logic and Game-Playing", in G. Malcolm (ed.), Multidisciplinary
Approaches to Visual Representations and Interpretations (Studies in
Multidisciplinary 2),
2003
37. "Logic, Language Games and Ludics", Acta Analytica 18, 89-123.
36.
"What are Multi-agent Systems Trying to
Accomplish? Towards Pragmatic Game-theoretic Agenda", in C. Delrieux and J. Legris (eds), Computer Modeling of
Scientific Reasoning,
35. "Wittgenstein on 'One of the Most Fundamental Language Games'", in W. Löffler and P. Weingartner (eds), Knowledge and Belief: Papers of the 26th International Wittgenstein Symposium, Kirchberg am Wechsel: Austrian Ludwig Wittgenstein Society, 277-279.
34. "The Semantic + Pragmatic Web = the Semiotic Web", in P. Isaías and N. Karmakar (eds), Proceedings of the IADIS International Conference WWW/Internet, IADIS Press, 981-984.
33.
"Peirce's Theory of Communication and its Contemporary Relevance", in
K. Nyíri (ed.),
31.
"Games as Formal Tools versus Games as Explanations in Logic and
Science", Foundations of Science 8, 317-364.
30.
"Peirce's Game-theoretic Ideas in Logic", Semiotica
144, 33-47.
26. "Informationally Independent Connectives" (with G. Sandu), in G. Mints and R. Muskens (eds), Games, Logic, and Constructive Sets, Stanford: CSLI Publications, 23-41.
2002
25. "Quantum Theory and Quantum Logic in a Game-theoretic Perspective", Open Systems & Information Dynamics 9, 273-290.
24. "Filosofinen logiikka
ja informatiikan vallankumous" ("Philosophical Logic and the
Revolution in Informatics"), Ajatus 59,
139-154.
23.
"Diagrammatic Representations in Logical Systems: Graphs, Games and
Discourse", in Proceedings of the 7th WSEAS International Conference on
Circuits, Systems, Communications and Computers.
22. "Semanttiset pelit logiikassa
ja kielessä" ("Semantic Games in Logic and Language"), Ajatus
59, 223-227.
21.
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theses
PhD thesis
Valehtelijan paradoksi ja
totuusmääritelmät IF-logiikassa
(Liar Paradox and Truth-Definitions in IF logic), MPhil Thesis, Department
of Philosophy,
Department of Philosophy | University of Helsinki
