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:

1. Logic, Language and Information
2. Philosophy of Science, Cognition, Artificial Intelligence
3. Pragmatism; Charles S. Peirce
4. 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.