Jaakko Hintikka

Jaakko Hintikka
Jaakko Hintikka in 2003
Born	Jaakko Kaarlo Juhani Hintikka (1929-01-12)12 January 1929 Helsingin maalaiskunta, Finland
Died	12 August 2015(2015-08-12) (aged 86) Porvoo, Finland
Nationality	Finnish
Education	University of Helsinki (Ph.D., 1953)
Awards	Library of Living Philosophers (2006) Rolf Schock Prize (2006)
Era	20th-century philosophy
Region	Western philosophy
School	Analytic philosophy
Institutions	Stanford University Boston University
Thesis	Distributive Normal Forms in the Calculus of Predicates (1953)
Doctoral advisor	Georg Henrik von Wright
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 (12 January 1929 – 12 August 2015) was a Finnish philosopher and logician. Hintikka is regarded as the founder of formal epistemic logic and of game semantics for logic.