Leila Tuulikki Haaparanta (née Taiminen, born 20 October 1954) is a Finnish philosopher who works in analytic philosophy and the philosophy of logic. She is retired from the University of Tampere as a professor emerita.[1]

Education and career

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Haaparanta was born on 20 October 1954 in Kalvola. She studied philosophy at the University of Helsinki, earning a bachelor's degree in 1976, a master's degree in 1978, a licenciate in 1979, and a Ph.D. in 1985; her dissertation was Frege's Doctrine of Being.[1]

She taught at the University of Helsinki from 1977 to 1994, becoming an assistant in 1987, and held an affiliation as a researcher at the Academy of Finland from 1985 to 1997. She became a professor at the University of Tampere in 1998, and retired as professor emerita in 2018.[1]

Books

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Haaparanta is the editor of:

  • Frege Synthesized: Essays on the Philosophical and Foundational Work of Gottlob Frege (with Jaakko Hintikka, D. Reidel Publishing, 1986)[2]
  • Mind, Meaning and Mathematics: Essays on the Philosophical Views of Husserl and Frege (Synthese Library 237, Springer, 1994)[3]
  • Analytic Philosophy in Finland (with Ilkka Niiniluoto, Rodopi, 2003)[4]
  • The Development of Modern Logic (Oxford University Press, 2009)[5]
  • Categories of Being: Essays on Metaphysics and Logic (with Heikki J. Koskinen, Oxford University Press, 2012)[6]

Recognition

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Haaparanta was elected to the Finnish Academy of Science and Letters in 2002, and to the Academia Europaea in 2011.[1]

A festschrift in her honor, Filosofisia tutkielmia: Philosophical Studies in honorem Leila Haaparanta, was edited by Luoma Kaisa, Oesch Erna, and Vilkko Risto, and published in 2004.[7]

References

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  1. ^ a b c d "Leila T. Haaparanta", Members, Academia Europaea, retrieved 2021-02-07. See also attacked curriculum vitae.
  2. ^ Reviews of Frege Synthesized: Edwin Martin (1988), Journal of Symbolic Logic, doi:10.2307/2274457, JSTOR 2274457; F. Truyen (1989), Tijdschrift voor Filosofie, JSTOR 40885918
  3. ^ Reviews of Mind, Meaning and Mathematics: Jocelyn Benoist (1995), Tijdschrift voor Filosofie, JSTOR 40887373; Wolfe Mays (1995), History and Philosophy of Logic, doi:10.1080/01445349508837245; Frédéric Patras (1997), Archives de Philosophie, JSTOR 43037587
  4. ^ Reviews of Analytic Philosophy in Finland: Sirkku K. Hellsten (2005), Philosophy in Review, [1]; F. Vandamme (2003), Communication and Cognition, [2]
  5. ^ Reviews of The Development of Modern Logic: Irving Anellis (2009), Russell, doi:10.15173/russell.v29i2.2169; Manuel Bremer (2011), Journal for General Philosophy of Science, doi:10.1007/s10838-011-9147-z, JSTOR 41478448; John P. Burgess (2011), History and Philosophy of Logic, doi:10.1080/01445340.2010.517397; Lorenz Demey (2010), Tijdschrift voor Filosofie, JSTOR 40890754; I. Grattan-Guinness (2013), Annals of Science, doi:10.1080/00033790.2010.518766; Victor V. Pambuccian, Zbl 1205.00074; Alasdair Urquhart (2012), Bulletin of Symbolic Logic, JSTOR 41494562
  6. ^ Reviews of Categories of Being: Fabrice Correia (2015), Dialectica, JSTOR 24706303; Jason M. Costanzo (2013), Philosophy in Review, [3]; Graham Stevens (2014), Mind, doi:10.1093/mind/fzu126, JSTOR 24490489
  7. ^ "Philosophical Studies in honorem Leila Haaparanta", PhilPapers, retrieved 2021-02-07