Date: Fri, 14 Nov 1997 17:13:26 EET+200
Subject: Re: MT: re:tv...


Your welcome , if it clarified anything. 

> Ah. Thanks for the clarification. Has any of the empiricism stuck, as much
> has here the US and the UK? What about neopragmatism?

Empiricism, I guess, is still around but a minority movement. Formal 
(both linguistic and mathematical) logic and phil of science were the 
dominant areas after WW2 (Kaila, von Wright, Stenius, Hintikka, 
Niiniluoto etc; you'll find those names in phil encyclopaedias) and 
as far as there are strong influences of them, there is some 
empiricism in Finnish phil. alive. But for historical reasons 
(age-old academic relations esp. to central Europe) empiricism isn't 
deep-rooted in local culture, after all the 'national philosopher' 
J.V. Snellman was hegelian (lived in 19th century). 

About neopragmatism I don't know a thing. 

Jukka