Academy of Finland

About: Academy of Finland is a government organization based out in Helsinki, Finland. It is known for research contribution in the topics: Population & Health care. The organization has 286 authors who have published 419 publications receiving 15304 citations. The organization is also known as: Finlands Akademi & Suomen Akatemia.

'God' as ultimate reality in religion and in science

Abstract: Le concept de Dieu peut etre acceptable dans le discours scientifique en tant que postulat conceptuel pour eviter certains problemes philosophiques. En tant que representation mentale d'un point de vue cognitif, certaines notions theologiques de Dieu ont leur place en philosophie aujourd'hui. Pour l'A., la realite ultime est une meta-representation fonctionnelle de l'idee de Dieu mais on arrive a la limite de cet argument des lors que l'on commence a parler d'un Dieu personnel qui n'est pas seulement une consequence d'un raisonnement scientifique ou philosophique mais implique un autre domaine.

Prediction and Identifiability

Abstract: There are many possible variants of the notion of determinism which can be connected with the logical properties of empirical theories. There has of course been a great deal of discussion about determinism in the philosophical literature but only a few attempts at a precise formulation of this notion. Noteworthy formulations can nevertheless be found in Montague (1961) and in Wojcicki (1973).

Some characterizations of Sturmian words in terms of the lexicographic order

Abstract: In this paper we present three new characterizations of Sturmian words based on the lexicographic ordering of their factors.

Realism and reference

Abstract: In a previous paper ~ we discussed briefly the problem whether modeltheoretic properties of formal semantics are, in general, of any relevance for deciding the correctness of scientific realism. Contrary to the views of Hilary Putnam (1978) and (1980), and John Winnie (1967), we argued that the adoption of a model-theoretic semantics for empirical theories is compatible with either a realist or instrumentalist view of science; and, more generally, that results of a model-theoretic nature are of minor significance for the issue of realism. In this note, we extend our discussion to examine further aspects of this question as they arise in the context of Putnam (1978). In particular, we shall argue that Putnam's contention that the metaphysical realists' picture is incoherent and unintelligible is not convincing due to his failure to distinguish between formal and informal kinds of reference and, more generally, between different syntactic and semantic levels of theories.