Causality and Hintikka’s Logic of perception

Goran Berić

doi:10.15291/radovifpsp.2679

Abstract

The focus of the author's interest is the work of a contemporary Finnish Philosopher Karl Jaakko Hintikka in the field of the philosophy of perception. The author gives a short introduction to Hinlikka’s specific approach to the classical issues in this field, and tries to point out some important ontological problems, connected with causality, implicit in Hintikka’s approach.

Highlights

The focus o f the author's interest is the work of a contemporary Finnish Philosopher Karl Jaakko Hintikka in the field of the philosophy of perception
Hintikka tried to show that the logic of perception should be considered as a subclass of epistemic logic and, subsequently, as a branch of modal logic. His intention was to present the formal semantics for perceptual concepts, but to show that, by treating perceptual concepts as modal notions, we can set up new horizons for solving some of the classical issues in the philosophy of perception
Such a method o f identification, which tells us if some member of one o f the possible worlds represents the same individual as a member o f another possible world, H intikka calls the method o f cross-identification, because it refers to identification across the boundaries o f possible worlds

Summary

Introduction

The focus o f the author's interest is the work of a contemporary Finnish Philosopher Karl Jaakko Hintikka in the field of the philosophy of perception. Since individuating functions do not represent inhabitants of any possible or the actual world, it is completely misleading to talk about their ontological status.

Results

Conclusion