Preface I THE BACKGROUND Ilkka NIINILUOTO: Philosophy in Finland – the Cultural Setting Edward WESTERMARCK: Normative and Psychological Ethics Eino KAILA: On Scientific and Metaphysical Explanation of Reality (1926) Eino KAILA: On the Method of Philosophy. Extracts from a Statement to the Section of History and Philology at the University of Helsinki (1930) Georg Henrik von Wright: What Philosophy Is for Me Jaakko HINTIKKA: Contemporary Philosophy and the Problem of Truth Jan WOLEŃSKI: Formal Metaphilosophy in Finland II LOGIC AND PHILOSOPHY OF LANGUAGE Anssi KORHONEN: Logical Semantics – Truth and Analyticity Veikko RANTALA: Possible Words Tuomo AHO: Propositional Attitudes Vladimír SVOBODA: Forms and Norms and Validity III PHILOSOPHY OF SCIENCE Roberto FESTA: Induction, Probability, and Bayesian Epistemology Matti SINTONEN: Realism and Growth of Knowledge – Philosophy of Science since Eino Kaila Martin KUSCH: Explanation and Understanding: The Debate over von Wright’s Philosophy of Action Revisited IV HISTORY OF PHILOSOPHY Mikko YRJÖNSUURI: Finnish Studies in the History of Ancient and Mediaeval Philosophy Olli KOISTINEN: Finnish Studies in Seventeenth-Century Rationalism Joachim SCHULTE: The Reception of Wittgenstein’s Philosophy in Finland V ETHICS AND SOCIAL PHILOSOPHY Mikko SALMELA: Analytic Moral Philosophy in Finland Matti HÄYRY: Applied Ethics in Finland Eerik LAGERSPETZ: Analytical Philosophy of Institutions VI INTERFACES OF ANALYTIC PHILOSOPHY Leila HAAPARANTA: Finnish Studies in Phenomenology and Phenomenological Studies in Finland: Interfaces of Analytic Philosophy and Phenomenology Sami PIHLSTRÖM: Pragmatistic Influences in Twentieth Century Finnish Philosophy: From Pre-analytic to Post-analytic Thought Thomas WALLGREN: Critical Theory Index of Names