About Jaakko Hintikka
Kaarlo Jaakko Juhani Hintikka (; Finnish: [ˈhintikːɑ]; 12 January 1929 – 12 August 2015) was a Finnish and American philosopher and logician. Hintikka is regarded as the founder of formal epistemic logic and of game semantics for logic. He was awarded the Rolf Schock Prize for philosophy in 2005, and he was chief editor of the philosophical journal Synthese 1965–2002. == Early life and education == Hintikka was born in Helsingin maalaiskunta (now Vantaa) outside of Helsinki, Finland on 12 January 1929. In 1953, he received his doctorate from the University of Helsinki for a thesis on predicate logic entitled Distributive Normal Forms in the Calculus of Predicates. He was a student of Georg Henrik von Wright. After his doctoral study, he became a Junior Fellow at Harvard University (1956–1959). == Career == Hintikka held professorial appointments at the University of Helsinki (1959–1970), Stanford University (1965–1982, partially visiting), Florida State University (1978–1990), and finally Boston University from 1990 until his death in 2015. He was the prolific author or co-author of over 30 books and over 300 scholarly articles. Hintikka contributed to mathematical logic, philosophical logic, the philosophy of mathematics, epistemology, language theory, and the philosophy of science.
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