PIETARINEN Ahti-Veikko教授

Degree(s):

PhD, University of Helsinki, Finland, 2002.

Taught previously at:

• University of Helsinki
• Tallinn University of Technology
• Nazarbayev University

Courses Taught currently

• Critical Thinking in the Cyberworld;
• Quest for Truth and Meaning;
• Life and Death

Teaching area(s):

• Human Mind and Its History;
• Semiotics;
• Logic, Language and Information;
• Philosophy of Science and Technology.

Research area(s):

Logic, Language and Information; Pragmatism; Charles S. Peirce; Clinical Reasoning.

Current project(s):

• Peirce’s Late Manuscripts on the Logic of Existential Graphs
• Abductive Inference, AI and Cognition

Selected output(s):

• Pietarinen, A.-V. (ed.). 2021. The Logical Tracts. Vol.2.2 of Logic of the Future: Peirce’s Writings on Existential Graphs. Berlin & Boston: De Gruyter.
• Pietarinen, A.-V. (ed.). 2021. The 1903 Lowell Lectures. Vol.2.1 of Logic of the Future: Peirce’s Writings on Existential Graphs. Berlin & Boston: De Gruyter.
• Pietarinen, A.-V. (ed.). 2020. History and Applications. Vol.1 of Logic of the Future: Peirce’s Writings on Existential Graphs. Berlin & Boston: De Gruyter.
• Pietarinen, A.-V. & Shafiei, M. (eds.) 2019. Peirce and Husserl: Mutual Insights on Logic, Mathematics and Cognition. Cham: Springer.

Selected Conference Presentations:

• What AI Needs. Milan Polytechnic, June 2022.
• Abduction and Fundamental Uncertainty. Milan Polytechnic, June 2022.
• Peirce’s Last Graphs (Presidential Address), Peirce Society, American Philosophical Association Eastern Meeting, Philadelphia, Jan 2020.

Selected Research Grant:

• Academy of Finland (2013-2017), Diagrammatic Mind: Iconicity in Logic, Language and Cognition.
• Estonian Research Council (2013-2018), Abduction in the Age of Fundamental Uncertainty.