Leila Haaparanta


Leila Tuulikki Haaparanta 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.

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.
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.

Books

Haaparanta is the editor of:
  • Frege Synthesized: Essays on the Philosophical and Foundational Work of Gottlob Frege
  • Mind, Meaning and Mathematics: Essays on the Philosophical Views of Husserl and Frege
  • Analytic Philosophy in Finland
  • The Development of Modern Logic
  • ''Categories of Being: Essays on Metaphysics and Logic''

    Recognition

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