Ilkka Niiniluoto
 | This article has multiple issues. Please help improve it or discuss these issues on the talk page. (Learn how and when to remove these template messages)
|
Ilkka Niiniluoto | |
|---|---|
 Niiniluoto listening to a debate in 2007 | |
| Born | Ilkka Maunu Olavi Niiniluoto March 12, 1946 |
| Citizenship | Finland |
| Alma mater | University of Helsinki (PhD, 1974) |
| Awards | Order of the White Star |
| Scientific career | |
| Institutions | University of Helsinki |
Ilkka Maunu Olavi Niiniluoto (born March 12, 1946) is a Finnish philosopher and mathematician, serving as a professor of philosophy at the University of Helsinki since 1981. He is currently[when?] on leave from his position, having been appointed as rector of the University of Helsinki on August 1, 2003 for a five-year period. On April 25, 2008, he was chosen to succeed Kari Raivio as chancellor of the University of Helsinki, beginning 1 June 2008.
Work
A significant contribution to the philosophy of science, particularly to the topic of verisimilitude or truth approximation, is his Truthlikeness (Synthese Library, Springer, 1987). Another notable publication is Critical Scientific Realism (Oxford University Press, 2002).
In 1990s, Niiniluoto among other university employees organized a plead to the consistory of the university to abolish ecclesiastic remnants from the university ceremonies.
Ilkka Niiniluoto is editor-in-chief of Acta Philosophica Fennica, the leading philosophical journal of Finland.
From 2008 to 2013, he served as the Chancellor of the University of Helsinki.
In 2011 he gave a Turku Agora Lecture.[1]
Books
- Niiniluoto, Ilkka; Woleński, Jan; Sintonen, Matti (2004). Handbook of epistemology. Dordrecht Boston: Kluwer Academic Publishers. ISBN 9781402019852.
References
- ^ "Agora Lecture – Ilkka Niiniluoto: Progress by Enlightenment". aboagora.wordpress.com. 14 November 2011.
External links
| International | |
|---|---|
| National | |
| Academics | |
| Other | |
   | This article about a Finnish scientist is a stub. You can help Wikipedia by expanding it. |
 | This article about a European mathematician is a stub. You can help Wikipedia by expanding it. |
 | This biography of a European philosopher is a stub. You can help Wikipedia by expanding it. |
- Analytic philosophers
- Finnish philosophers
- Finnish mathematicians
- Philosophers of science
- Atheist philosophers
- Finnish skeptics
- Academics of the University of Helsinki
- Foreign Members of the Russian Academy of Sciences
- People from Helsinki
- 1946 births
- Living people
- Rectors of the University of Helsinki
- Chancellors of the University of Helsinki
- Finnish scientist stubs
- European mathematician stubs
- European philosopher stubs