Leila Haaparanta

Leila Tuulikki Haaparanta (née Taiminen, born 20 October 1954) is a Finnish philosopher who works in analytic philosophy and the philosophy of logic. She is retired from the University of Tampere as a professor emerita.^[1]

Education and career

Haaparanta was born on 20 October 1954 in Kalvola. She studied philosophy at the University of Helsinki, earning a bachelor's degree in 1976, a master's degree in 1978, a licenciate in 1979, and a Ph.D. in 1985; her dissertation was Frege's Doctrine of Being.^[1]

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.^[1]

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)^[2]
• Mind, Meaning and Mathematics: Essays on the Philosophical Views of Husserl and Frege (Synthese Library 237, Springer, 1994)^[3]
• Analytic Philosophy in Finland (with Ilkka Niiniluoto, Rodopi, 2003)^[4]
• The Development of Modern Logic (Oxford University Press, 2009)^[5]
• Categories of Being: Essays on Metaphysics and Logic (with Heikki J. Koskinen, Oxford University Press, 2012)^[6]

Recognition

Haaparanta was elected to the Finnish Academy of Science and Letters in 2002, and to the Academia Europaea in 2011.^[1]

A festschrift 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.^[7]