Date: Fri, 14 Nov 1997 14:23:02 -0500 (EST) From: Justin Schwartz <jschwart-AT-freenet.columbus.oh.us> Subject: Re: MT: re:tv... Hintikka and von Wright are well known here. We nearly hired him at OSU when I was there, but he went to Florida State, I think, instead. --jks On Fri, 14 Nov 1997, Jukka Laari wrote: > 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
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