Jaakko Hintikka

Kaarlo Jaakko Juhani Hintikka (12 January 1929 – 12 August 2015) was a Finnish and American philosopher and logician. He is regarded as the founder of formal epistemic logic and of game semantics for logic. Born in Helsingin maalaiskunta, Finland, he received his doctorate from the University of Helsinki in 1953. He held professorial appointments at the University of Helsinki, Stanford University, Florida State University, and Boston University. Hintikka was a prolific author, with over 30 books and 300 scholarly articles to his name, contributing to mathematical logic, philosophical logic, the philosophy of mathematics, epistemology, language theory, and the philosophy of science. He received the Rolf Schock Prize in logic and philosophy in 2005. He also served as chief editor of the journal Synthese and held numerous other editorial and leadership positions in philosophical organizations.