News & Events |
TUT Council elected Prof. Ahti-Veikko Pietarinen (from the University of Helsinki) as the new Professor of Philosophy at the Chair of Philosophy, Department of Public Administration, Faculty of Social Sciences.
Prof. Pietarinen has so far worked as Professor of Semiotics at the University of Helsinki and Director of the Helsinki Peirce Research Centre.
His research interests include Logic, Philosophy of Language, Philosophy of Science, History of Philosophy, Peirce, and Pragmatism. His most recent monograph is Signs of Logic: Peircean Themes on the Philosophy of Language, Games, and Communication (Springer Synthese Library, 2006) and a collection Game Theory and Linguistic Meaning (CRiSPI, Elsevier Science, 2007).
His latest journal publications have appeared in the Journal of the History of Ideas, Semiotica,
Perspectives on Science, Linguistics and the Human Sciences, Studia Logica, Cognitio,
History of Philosophy Quarterly, and Pragmatics & Cognition.
Prof. Pietarinen's full bio is available here.