PhD, University of Helsinki, Finland, 2002.
Awards:
- Editor-in-Chief, Peirceana, De Gruyter
- Biosemiotic Achievement Award for the Year 2021
- Lecturer of the Year 2020 (TalTech)
- Clarivate Analytics Citation Rank, Highly Cited Researchers 2020 (Philosophy & AI)
- President, Charles S. Peirce Society (2018-2019)
Research:
- Logic, Language and Information
- Philosophy of Science, Cognition, Artificial Intelligence
- Pragmatism; Charles S. Peirce
- Clinical Reasoning
Teaching Areas:
- Human Mind and Its History
- Philosophy of Artificial Intelligence, Science, and Technology
- Life & Death
- Logic, Language and Information
- Semantics & Pragmatics; Meaning; Semiotics
Current Projects:
- Peirce’s Late Manuscripts on the Logic of Existential Graphs
- Abductive Inference, AI and Cognition
Selected Outputs:
- Medianovskyi, K. & Pietarinen, A.-V., 2022. On Explainable AI and Abductive Inference. philosophies 7, 35.
- Pietarinen, A.-V. & Stanley, D. E. 2022. Precision medicine and diseases as natural kinds: An epistemological dilemma. Journal of Evaluation in Clinical Practice 28, 835-842.
- Pietarinen, A. V. & Beni, M. D. 2021. Active Inference and Abduction. Biosemiotics 14, 499-517.
- Beni, M. D. & Pietarinen, A. V. 2021. Aligning the free-energy principle with Peirce’s logic of science and economy of research. European Journal for Philosophy of Science 11, 94.
- Chiffi, D., Pietarinen, A. V. & Grecucci, A. 2021. Meaning and Affect in the Placebo Effect. Journal of Medicine and Philosophy 46, 313-329.
- Carrara, M., Chiffi, D., De Florio, C. & Pietarinen, A. V. 2021. We don’t know we don’t know: asserting ignorance. Synthese 198, 3565-3580.
- Pietarinen, A.-V. (ed.). 2021. The Logical Tracts. Vol.2.2 of Logic of the Future: Peirce’s Writings on Existential Graphs. Berlin & Boston: De Gruyter.
- Pietarinen, A.-V. (ed.). 2021. The 1903 Lowell Lectures. Vol.2.1 of Logic of the Future: Peirce’s Writings on Existential Graphs. Berlin & Boston: De Gruyter.
- Pietarinen, A.-V. (ed.). 2020. History and Applications. Vol.1 of Logic of the Future: Peirce’s Writings on Existential Graphs. Berlin & Boston: De Gruyter.
- Bellucci, F. & Pietarinen, A.-V. 2020. Peirce on the justification of abduction. Studies in History and Philosophy of Science Part A. 84, 12-19.
- Ma, M. & Pietarinen, A.-V. 2020. Peirce's Calculi for Classical Propositional Logic. Review of Symbolic Logic 13, 509-540.
- Pietarinen, A.-V. & Shafiei, M. (eds.) 2019. Peirce and Husserl: Mutual Insights on Logic, Mathematics and Cognition. Cham: Springer.
Selected Conference Presentations:
- What AI Needs. Milan Polytechnic, June 2022.
- Abduction and Fundamental Uncertainty. Milan Polytechnic, June 2022.
- Peirce’s Last Graphs (Presidential Address), Peirce Society, American Philosophical Association Eastern Meeting, Philadelphia, Jan 2020.
Selected Research Grants:
- Academy of Finland (2013-2017), Diagrammatic Mind: Iconicity in Logic, Language and Cognition.
- Estonian Research Council (2013-2018), Abduction in the Age of Fundamental Uncertainty.