Ahti-Veikko Pietarinen
Biographic Data
| ID | 495442 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Ahti-Veikko Pietarinen |
| GIVEN NAMES | Ahti-Veikko |
| FAMILY NAME | Pietarinen |
| SIGNATURE | PIETARINEN A |
| AFFILIATIONS | Tallinn University of Technology |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-4855-8110 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 42 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 30 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 42 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1974 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
What shapes perceived safety in autonomous mobility? Cross-cultural evidence from large-scale online eye tracking
As autonomous vehicles increasingly perceive and navigate the world through AI-based sensing systems, understanding what people pay attention to and how they interpret these same environments has become equally important for socially accepted autonomous mobility. Public acceptance depends not only on how safely autonomous systems operate, but also on how people interpret the environments in which these systems act. While increasing the visible re…
Conceptual underpinnings of organizational semiotics from the pragmatist perspective
The viability of theories of contemporary organizations is assessed from pragmatic and semiotic points of view. Contemporary research on organizational semiotics has focused on the problem of how to bring the notion of information to bear on semiotic accounts of social organizations. In this paper, the theoretical and conceptual elements involved in this endeavor are analyzed. Two notions stand out: the meaning of information and the idea that or…
Manipulation and Deception in Generative AI-Mediated Education
Generative AI now mediates core parts of learning, yet we lack criteria to tell its legitimate pedagogical uses from manipulative and deceptive ones. We also know too little about how AI reshapes the growth of critical thinking and creativity, or about whether it accelerates drift from educational goods to evaluative metrics. Using a postdigital, pragmatist lens that treats classrooms as sociomaterial assemblages of people, platforms, and institu…
The semiotic roots of worldviews
The logic of worldviews provides a consistent method of comparison between multiple worldviews. The present paper connects the logic of worldviews to important historical and contemporary influences. Beginning with its roots in semiotics, an account of epistemology emerges which is mediated by a belief system. We show that Charles Peirce’s pragmatistic theory of inquiry is the bedrock beneath the logic of worldviews. We formulate it as a generali…
On Explainable AI and Abductive Inference
Modern explainable AI (XAI) methods remain far from providing human-like answers to ‘why’ questions, let alone those that satisfactorily agree with human-level understanding. Instead, the results that such methods provide boil down to sets of causal attributions. Currently, the choice of accepted attributions rests largely, if not solely, on the explainee’s understanding of the quality of explanations. The paper argues that such decisions may be …
Modular vs. diagrammatic reasoning
Mercier and Sperber (MS) have ventured to undermine an age-old assumption in logic, namely the presence of premise-conclusion structures, in favor of two novel claims: that reasoning is an evolutionary product of a reason-intuiting module in the mind, and that theories of logic teach next to nothing about the mechanisms of how inferences are drawn in that module. The present paper begs to differ: logic is indispensable in formulating conceptions …
Pragmaticism as a logical study of consciousness
Pragmaticism states that general rules of action, or habits, are generalizing tendencies that lead us to action in conceivable situations describable in general terms. As a method of ‘putting questions to our minds,’ it assigns meanings to signs in terms of conceivable practical consequences for rational conduct. Questions are experiments on various ways of finding solutions in thoughts. This paper proposes pragmaticism as a logical method to stu…
Peirce on Assertion
Peirce’s theory of assertions articulates the original commitment theory of assertions. Commitment theories of assertion have gained considerable recent interest not only in the Peirce scholarship but also in studies of history and philosophy of language, logic and communication. In this preface we point out some recent work on the topic and provide a brief introduction to the papers published in this Transactions symposium. These papers consist …
An analysis of Existential Graphs–part 2
This paper provides an analysis of the notational difference between Beta Existential Graphs, the graphical notation for quantificational logic invented by Charles S. Peirce at the end of the 19th century, and the ordinary notation of first-order logic. Peirce thought his graphs to be “more diagrammatic” than equivalently expressive languages (including his own algebras) for quantificational logic. The reason of this, he claimed, is that less roo…
We don’t know we don’t know
Assertion, Conjunction, and Other Signs of Logic
This paper is about Peirce’s understanding and notational realization of the relationship between the logical content of conjunction and the illocutionary force of assertion. The argument moves from an imaginary, subtextual dialogue between several authors in the history of logic and the philosophy of language (Aristotle, Ammonius, Boethius, Frege, Peirce, Geach, and Dummett) and shows that the problem of the relationship between conjunction and …
Lowell Lectures
Abductive inference within a pragmatic framework
Peirce on the justification of abduction
Anticipation, abduction and the economy of research
Icons, Interrogations, and Graphs
Peirce’s semiotic characterization of abductive reasoning in the Syllabus and in its drafts is related to the interrogative mood of the conclusion of abductive reasoning, both in the light of the Syllabus as well as Peirce’s post-1903 analysis of abduction and speculative grammar. The relevant pages of the Syllabus also present two non-standard logical graphs that are new. We surmise what their intended meaning could be, explaining possible conne…
Publish or Peircish
Semeiotic completeness in the theory of signs
Peirce aspired for the completeness of his logic cum the theory of signs in his 1903 Lowell Lectures and other late manuscripts. Semeiotic completeness states that everything that is a consequence in logical critic is derivable in speculative grammar. The present paper exposes the reasons why Peirce would fall short of establishing semeiotic completeness and thus why he would not continue seeking a perfect match between the theories of grammar an…
History and Applications
Gamma graph calculi for modal logics
From Mitchell to Carus
We analyze the steps that took Peirce from his early 1882 proposals to represent logic by graphs to the advent of the full theory of quantification in his 1896 logic of Existen-tial Graphs
Recent studies on signs
In this commentary, I reply to the fourteen papers published in the Sign Systems Studies special issue on Peirce’s Theory of Signs, with a view on connecting some of their central themes and theses and in putting some of the key points in those papers into a wider perspective of Peirce’s logic and philosophy
Signs systematically studied
This introductory presentation reviews noteworthy topics and concepts in Peirce’s interrelated kingdoms of the theory of signs, their classification, categories, logic and semeiotic
Two papers on existential graphs by Charles Peirce
Exploring the beta quadrant
Anticipation, abduction and the economy of research
Two papers on existential graphs by Charles Peirce
Abductive inference within a pragmatic framework
Icons, Interrogations, and Graphs
Peirce’s semiotic characterization of abductive reasoning in the Syllabus and in its drafts is related to the interrogative mood of the conclusion of abductive reasoning, both in the light of the Syllabus as well as Peirce’s post-1903 analysis of abduction and speculative grammar. The relevant pages of the Syllabus also present two non-standard logical graphs that are new. We surmise what their intended meaning could be, explaining possible conne…
From Mitchell to Carus
We analyze the steps that took Peirce from his early 1882 proposals to represent logic by graphs to the advent of the full theory of quantification in his 1896 logic of Existen-tial Graphs
Exploring the beta quadrant
Significs and the Origins of Analytic Philosophy
In this article I bring to light a group of scientific and philosophical ideas and intellectual currents from the early era of the significs movement, contemporaneous with the origins of early analytic philosophy. Significs was a strong candidate for the science of language, meaning, and communication during the new century. Its heyday coincided with the forums of the Vienna Circle, yet its intellectual and cultural climate persisted until fading…
Gamma graph calculi for modal logics
Recent studies on signs
In this commentary, I reply to the fourteen papers published in the Sign Systems Studies special issue on Peirce’s Theory of Signs, with a view on connecting some of their central themes and theses and in putting some of the key points in those papers into a wider perspective of Peirce’s logic and philosophy
Signs systematically studied
This introductory presentation reviews noteworthy topics and concepts in Peirce’s interrelated kingdoms of the theory of signs, their classification, categories, logic and semeiotic
Christine Ladd-Franklin's and Victoria Welby's correspondence with Charles Peirce
The Peirce–Welby correspondence has been an invaluable source for the historians of logic and semiotics mapping the development of Peirce's thought and of the significs movement. The unpublished Peirce–Ladd-Franklin correspondence provides equally important insights into the development of theories of logic and meaning, science and reasoning, and language and intelligence. Taking Ladd-Franklin's contributions into account puts the received histor…
Moving pictures of thought II
Peirce believed that his pragmaticism can be conclusively proven. Beginning in 1903, he drafted several attempts, ending by 1908 with a semeiotic proof. Around 1905, he exposes the proof using the theory of Existential Graphs (EGs). This paper modernizes the semantics Peirce proposed for EGs in terms of game-theoretic semantics (GTS). Peirce's 1905 proof is then reconstructed in three parts, by (1) relating pragmaticism to the GTS conception of m…
Inductive Immodesty and Lawlikeness
David Lewis [2] suggests that an adequate inductive method should be immodest , i.e. recommend itself as at least as accurate as any of its rivals. On this basis he works out a solution to the intricate problem of choosing among Carnap's λ -methods. Lewis himself points out certain undesirable consequences of his solution. I will argue that the solution breaks down for a more general reason than that indicated by Lewis; like other procedures for …
Scope and Specificity
1. 1. Introduction 2. 2. Scope Dependency 3. 3. Generalized-specificity 4. 4. Branching Quantifiers 5. 5. G-specificity in Chinese 6. 6. Wh/quantifier Interaction 7. 7. Recent Development 8. 8. Concluding Remarks 9. References 10. Index
Paradigms for Language Theory and Other Essays
Introduction. Origin of the Essays. 1. The Games of Logic and the Games of Inquiry. 2. No Scope for Scope. 3. Informational Independence as a Semantical Phenomenon (with Gabriel Sandu.) 4. 'Is', Semantical Games and Semantical Relativity. 5. Logical Form and Linguistic Theory. 6. On the Any-Thesis and the Methodology of Linguistics. 7. Paradigms for Language Theory. 8. (with Gabriel Sandu.) The Fallacies of the New Theory of Reference. 9. Perspec…
Philosophical Logic
Direct Reference, Indexicality, and Propositional Attitudes
Preface Part I. Indexicals and Names: Reflexivity, indexicality and names John Perry Tensed thoughts James Higginbotham First person propositions: a Fregean account Wolfgang Kunne First-Person Reference, Representational independence and self-knowledge Christopher Peacocke The logic of indexical attitudes and the metaphysics of the self Albert Newen The address puzzle Thomas Zimmerman The mechanics of the counterpart relation Henk Zeevat Names, i…
Negation and Polarity
Lingua universalis vs. calculus ratiocinator
Ways of scope taking
Reference and anaphoric relations
Most Even Budged Yet
This paper explores ways of expanding the logical and linguistic theory known as game-theoretic semantics (GTS) to cover some new linguistic categories and expressions. I will show the applicability and relevance of GTS to a cross-sample of linguistic categories, ranging from polarity items (many of which are lexical), the morpheme even, and adverbs of quantification, to the realm of generalised quantifiers. I will also suggest how eventualities …
Peirces game-theoretic ideas in logic
L'A. explore les aspects de la pensee de Peirce qui permettraient d'envisager une relation entre theorie des jeux et logique. Il demontre en effet qu'il est possible de considerer les idees semiotiques et logiques de Peirce en terme de jeux. L'A. etudie alors divers aspects de la theorie peirceenne de la logique comme la semantique logique et la theorie des graphes existentiels et se penche plus particulierement sur la notion d'habit, developpee …
Grice in the wake of Peirce
I argue that many of the pragmatic notions that are commonly attributed to H. P. Grice, or are reported to be inspired by his work on pragmatics, such as assertion, conventional implicature, cooperation, common ground, common knowledge, presuppositions and conversational strategies, have their origins in C. S. Peirce’s theory of signs and his pragmatic logic and philosophy. Both Grice and Peirce rooted their theories in normative rationality, ant…
Significs and the Origins of Analytic Philosophy
In this article I bring to light a group of scientific and philosophical ideas and intellectual currents from the early era of the significs movement, contemporaneous with the origins of early analytic philosophy. Significs was a strong candidate for the science of language, meaning, and communication during the new century. Its heyday coincided with the forums of the Vienna Circle, yet its intellectual and cultural climate persisted until fading…
Moving pictures of thought II
Peirce believed that his pragmaticism can be conclusively proven. Beginning in 1903, he drafted several attempts, ending by 1908 with a semeiotic proof. Around 1905, he exposes the proof using the theory of Existential Graphs (EGs). This paper modernizes the semantics Peirce proposed for EGs in terms of game-theoretic semantics (GTS). Peirce's 1905 proof is then reconstructed in three parts, by (1) relating pragmaticism to the GTS conception of m…
Peirce and the logic of image
Peirce divided hypoicons into images, diagrams, and metaphors. For diagrams, he developed a logical theory of graphs: many-dimensional linguistic expressions analyzing meaning by virtue of iconicity of logical form. He neglected the logic of images as well as metaphors, however. Metaphors relate to non-standard meanings that combine complex diagrammatic representations. Images are elementary constituents of qualitative space. I will argue that th…
Christine Ladd-Franklin's and Victoria Welby's correspondence with Charles Peirce
The Peirce–Welby correspondence has been an invaluable source for the historians of logic and semiotics mapping the development of Peirce's thought and of the significs movement. The unpublished Peirce–Ladd-Franklin correspondence provides equally important insights into the development of theories of logic and meaning, science and reasoning, and language and intelligence. Taking Ladd-Franklin's contributions into account puts the received histor…
Applying Peirce in Tallinn and Helsinki
Applying Peirce in Tallinn and Helsinki
Recent studies on signs
In this commentary, I reply to the fourteen papers published in the Sign Systems Studies special issue on Peirce’s Theory of Signs, with a view on connecting some of their central themes and theses and in putting some of the key points in those papers into a wider perspective of Peirce’s logic and philosophy
Signs systematically studied
This introductory presentation reviews noteworthy topics and concepts in Peirce’s interrelated kingdoms of the theory of signs, their classification, categories, logic and semeiotic
Two papers on existential graphs by Charles Peirce
Exploring the beta quadrant
From Mitchell to Carus
We analyze the steps that took Peirce from his early 1882 proposals to represent logic by graphs to the advent of the full theory of quantification in his 1896 logic of Existen-tial Graphs
Gamma graph calculi for modal logics
Semeiotic completeness in the theory of signs
Peirce aspired for the completeness of his logic cum the theory of signs in his 1903 Lowell Lectures and other late manuscripts. Semeiotic completeness states that everything that is a consequence in logical critic is derivable in speculative grammar. The present paper exposes the reasons why Peirce would fall short of establishing semeiotic completeness and thus why he would not continue seeking a perfect match between the theories of grammar an…
History and Applications
Philosophy (31 works) · Computer Science (27 works) · Epistemology (25 works) · Pragmatism in Philosophy and Education (20 works) · Linguistics (19 works) · Psychology (14 works) · Philosophy and History of Science (11 works) · Philosophy (10 works) · Mathematics (8 works) · Historical Linguistics and Language Studies (7 works)