Acta Structuralica

international journal for structuralist research

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On knowing, knowing that one knows and consciousness

David Wiggins

pp. 237-248

Abstract

It is an honour to receive a formal invitation to honour Jaako Hintikka, a logician, philosopher and scholar of preternatural energy and erudition. I cannot however match a private or unofficial tribute which I paid to him in 1967–1968, when the sense that a new ideal of order and system had overtaken the work I was doing caused me to abandon a manuscript I had been working on for some years about self-deception and the opacity of consciousness. The ideal in question was that represented by Hintikka's Knowledge and Belief: An Introduction to the Logic of the Two Notions (Cornell University Press, Ithaca, New York, 1962) — a book with which I disagreed, but which I found I could not meet on its own terms.

Publication details

Published in:

Saarinen Esa, Hilpinen Risto, Niiniluoto Ilkka, Provence Hintikka Merrill (1979) Essays in honour of Jaakko Hintikka. Dordrecht, Springer.

Pages: 237-248

DOI: 10.1007/978-94-009-9860-5_15

Full citation:

Wiggins David (1979) „On knowing, knowing that one knows and consciousness“, In: E. Saarinen, R. Hilpinen, I. Niiniluoto & M. Provence Hintikka (eds.), Essays in honour of Jaakko Hintikka, Dordrecht, Springer, 237–248.