Jaakko Hintikka

Jaakko Hintikka
Jaakko Hintikka
	Jaakko Hintikka in 2003
Born	Jaakko Kaarlo Juhani Hintikka; 12 January 1929; Helsingin maalaiskunta, Finland
Died	12 August 2015 (aged 86); Porvoo, Finland
Awards	Harvard Junior Fellow (1956); Rolf Schock Prize (2005); Library of Living Philosophers (2006);
Education
Education	University of Helsinki; (Ph.D., 1953)
Thesis	Distributive Normal Forms in the Calculus of Predicates (1953)
Doctoral advisor	Georg Henrik von Wright
Philosophical work
Era	20th-century philosophy
Region	Western philosophy
School	Analytic philosophy
Institutions	University of Helsinki (1959–1970); Stanford University (1965–1982); Florida State University (1978–1990); Boston University (1990–2015);
Doctoral students	Terence Parsons; Barry Loewer;
Main interests	Philosophy; Logic;
Notable ideas	Hintikka set; Game semantics; Epistemic logic; Independence-friendly logic;

Kaarlo Jaakko Juhani Hintikka (/ˈhɪntɪkə/; 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.