Professor Risto Hilpinen was educated at the University of Helsinki. He joined the UM Philosophy Department in 1985. He has been Professor of Philosophy at the University of Jyvaskyla (1970-71) and Professor of Theoretical Philosophy the University of Turku (1972-99), and has held visiting professorships at the University of Rochester, Stanford University, Florida State University, and the University of Graz, and research fellowships at Stanford University, the University of Queensland, Harvard University, and the University of Pittsburgh. His areas of interest include epistemology, deontic logic, philosophy of action, philosophy of science, and the philosophy of C. S. Peirce. He is the author of Rules of Acceptance and Inductive Logic (1968) and of some 100 articles in scholarly journals and books, and he has edited several books and journal issues on deontic logic and the philosophy of science. He serves on the editorial boards of several academic journals and was, from 1983 to 1991, Secretary General of the International  Union of the History and Philosophy of  Science, Division of Logic, Methodology and Philosophy of Science. He is a member of the Finnish Academy of Science and Letters and of Institut International de Philosophie. He is currently working on projects related to the philosophy of action, epistemic logic, and the pragmatic theory of meaning and knowledge.

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