Auteur: I. Niiniluoto

Epistemology or theory of knowledge has always been one of the most important -if not the most important -field of philosophy. New arguments are constantly brought to bear on old views, new variants …

The modern discussion on the concept of truthlikeness was started in 1960. In his influential Word and Object, W. V. O. Quine argued that Charles Peirce’s definition of truth as the limit of inquiry …

The Fourth Scandinavian Logic Symposium and the First Soviet-Finnish Logic Conference were held in Jyvasky Ia, Finland, June 29-July 6, 1976. The Conferences were organized by a committee which …

Jaakko Hintikka was born on January 12th, 1929. He received his doctorate from the University of Helsinki under the supervision of Professor G. H. von Wright at the age of 24 in 1953. Hintikka was …

The Fourth International Congress for Logic, Methodology, and Philos- ophy of Science was held in Bucharest, Romania, on August 29-September 4, 1971. The Congress was organized, under the auspices of …

Conceptual change and its connection to the development of new seien- tific theories has reeently beeome an intensively discussed topic in philo- sophieal literature. Even if the inductive aspects …

This collection brings together several essays which have been written between the years 197 5 and 1983. During that period I have been occupied with the attempt to find a satisfactory explicate for …