Category: Philosophy and/of Information

Jaakko Hintikka and Information in Philosophy

Though not something that I deliberately worked towards, I realise that much of the work I have done or am doing is in areas either initiated or influenced by Jaakko Hintikka.

  • My honours thesis looked at game-theoretical semantics and independence-friendly logic, which Hintikka is the main architect of.
  • I also work with epistemic logic quite a bit, of which Hintikka’s Knowledge and Belief: An Introduction to the Logic of the Two Notions is a seminal text.
  • I am currently using Hintikka’s approach to analysing questions as requests for information in terms of epistemic modal logic for some research on informational relevance.
  • The approaches to truthlikeness that I am using for information quantification make use of Hintikka’s distributive normal forms.
  • The work by Bar-Hillel/Carnap on quantifying semantic information was extended by Hintikka.

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