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Leila Tuulikki Haaparanta (née Taiminen, born 20 October 1954) is a Finnish philosopher who works in
analytic philosophy Analytic philosophy is a broad movement within Western philosophy, especially English-speaking world, anglophone philosophy, focused on analysis as a philosophical method; clarity of prose; rigor in arguments; and making use of formal logic, mat ...
and the
philosophy of logic Philosophy of logic is the area of philosophy that studies the scope and nature of logic. It investigates the philosophical problems raised by logic, such as the presuppositions often implicitly at work in theories of logic and in their applicatio ...
. She is retired from the
University of Tampere The University of Tampere (UTA) (, ) was a public university in Tampere, Finland that was merged with Tampere University of Technology to create the new Tampere University on 1 January 2019. The university offered undergraduate, postgraduate an ...
as a
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.


Education and career

Haaparanta was born on 20 October 1954 in
Kalvola Kalvola is a former municipality of Finland. Its seat was in Iittala. It was consolidated with Hämeenlinna on 2009-01-01. It is located in the province of Southern Finland and is part of the Tavastia Proper region. The municipality had a popul ...
. She studied philosophy at the
University of Helsinki The University of Helsinki (, ; UH) is a public university in Helsinki, Finland. The university was founded in Turku in 1640 as the Royal Academy of Åbo under the Swedish Empire, and moved to Helsinki in 1828 under the sponsorship of Alexander ...
, earning a bachelor's degree in 1976, a master's degree in 1978, a
licenciate A licentiate (abbreviated Lic.) is an academic degree present in many countries, representing different educational levels. The Licentiate (Pontifical Degree) is a post graduate degree when issued by pontifical universities and other universitie ...
in 1979, and a Ph.D. in 1985; her dissertation was ''Frege's Doctrine of Being''. 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.


Books

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


Recognition

Haaparanta was elected to the
Finnish Academy of Science and Letters The Finnish Academy of Science and Letters (; ) is a Finnish learned society. It was founded in 1908 and is thus the second oldest academy in Finland. The oldest is the Finnish Society of Sciences and Letters, which was founded in 1838. Member ...
in 2002, and to the
Academia Europaea The Academia Europaea is a pan-European Academy of humanities, letters, law, and sciences. The Academia was founded in 1988 as a functioning Europe-wide Academy that encompasses all fields of scholarly inquiry. It acts as co-ordinator of Europe ...
in 2011. A
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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.


References

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