Jaakko Hintikka on Knowledge and Game-Theoretical Semantics

✍ Scribed by Hans van Ditmarsch, Gabriel Sandu (eds.)

• Publisher: Springer International Publishing
• Year: 2018
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 634
• Series: Outstanding Contributions to Logic 12
• Edition: 1
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

This book focuses on the game-theoretical semantics and epistemic logic of Jaakko Hintikka.

Hintikka was a prodigious and esteemed philosopher and logician, and his death in August 2015 was a huge loss to the philosophical community. This book, whose chapters have been in preparation for several years, is dedicated to the work of Jaako Hintikka, and to his memory.

This edited volume consists of 23 contributions from leading logicians and philosophers, who discuss themes that span across the entire range of Hintikka’s career. Semantic Representationalism, Logical Dialogues, Knowledge and Epistemic logic are among some of the topics covered in this book's chapters.

The book should appeal to students, scholars and teachers who wish to explore the philosophy of Jaako Hintikka.

✦ Table of Contents

Front Matter ....Pages i-ix
Short Overview of the Development of Hintikka’s Work in Logic (Gabriel Sandu)....Pages 1-18
From Pictures to Semantical Games: Hintikka’s Journey Through Semantic Representationalism (Juan José Acero)....Pages 19-48
Is Natural Semantics Possible?—Ordinary English, Formal Deformations-cum-Reformations and the Limits of Model Theory (Joseph Almog)....Pages 49-108
Knowing-Who in Quantified Epistemic Logic (Maria Aloni)....Pages 109-129
Group Knowledge in Interrogative Epistemology (A. Baltag, R. Boddy, S. Smets)....Pages 131-164
Topological Subset Space Models for Public Announcements (Adam Bjorndahl)....Pages 165-186
Known Unknowns: Time Bounds and Knowledge of Ignorance (Ido Ben-Zvi, Yoram Moses)....Pages 187-206
Seeing Is Believing: Formalising False-Belief Tasks in Dynamic Epistemic Logic (Thomas Bolander)....Pages 207-236
Playing Cards with Hintikka: An Introduction to Dynamic Epistemic Logic (Hans van Ditmarsch, Wiebe van der Hoek, Barteld Kooi)....Pages 237-262
On Semantic Games for Łukasiewicz Logic (Christian G. Fermüller, Ondrej Majer)....Pages 263-278
Quantifiers. Hintikka and Frege on Quantification Concepts (María J. Frápolli, Neftalí Villanueva)....Pages 279-298
Dynamic Logics of Imperfect Information: From Teams and Games to Transitions (Pietro Galliani)....Pages 299-315
Hintikka’s Knowledge and Belief in Flux (Vincent F. Hendricks, Rasmus K. Rendsvig)....Pages 317-337
Possible Worlds Semantics Based on Observation and Communication (Andreas Herzig, Emiliano Lorini, Faustine Maffre)....Pages 339-362
Knowledge, Time, and Paradox: Introducing Sequential Epistemic Logic (Wesley H. Holliday)....Pages 363-394
Borel(^{*}) Sets in the Generalized Baire Space and Infinitary Languages (Tapani Hyttinen, Vadim Kulikov)....Pages 395-412
Questions of Epistemic Logic in Hintikka (Simo Knuuttila)....Pages 413-431
The Proof Theory of Common Knowledge (Michel Marti, Thomas Studer)....Pages 433-455
Knowability and a New Paradox of Happiness (Joe Salerno)....Pages 457-474
Linear Programming Tools for Analyzing Strategic Games of Independence-Friendly Logic and Applications (Merlijn Sevenster)....Pages 475-497
Beyond Knowing That: A New Generation of Epistemic Logics (Yanjing Wang)....Pages 499-533
Epistemic Logic with Evidence and Relevant Alternatives (Zhaoqing Xu, Bo Chen)....Pages 535-555
Back Matter ....Pages 557-632

✦ Subjects

Logic