Gabriel SANDU

Professeur

Professor of Theoretical Philosophy, Department of Philosophy, History, Culture and Art Studies, University of Helsinki

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Personal Data

Born on November 6th, 1954, Bucharest, Romania.
Personal Address: Döbelninkatu, 3 b 7, 00260 Helsinki, Finland
Tel (mobile): 358504154810
Email: Gabriel.sandu@helsinki.fi

Academic Degrees

Master of Economics, Academy of Economic Sciences, Bucharest, September 1978.
Master of Philosophy, University of Helsinki, December 1984.
Doctor of Philosophy, University of Helsinki, 17.5.1991. (Title of the dissertation: “Studies in Game-Theoretical Logic and Semantics”.)
Docent of Theoretical Philosophy, 05.06.1992, University of Helsinki.

Academic Appointments

Current Appointment

Professor of Theoretical Philosophy, Department of Philosophy, History, Culture and Art Studies, University of Helsinki, 01.08.1998-

Previous Academic Appointments

Researcher , Academy of Finland, 4.1.88-31.10.91, and 1.1.92-31.7.97
Associate Professor of Theoretical Philosohy, University of Helsinki, 1.8.97-31.7.98.
Senior Scientist, Academy of Finland, 1.8.04-31.7.05
Research Director (Directeur de recherche), CNRS, IHPST/ENS (Institute for the History and Philosophy of Science and Technology), Paris, 2004-2007.
Acting Professor, Paris 1, Panthéon-Sorbonne, 1.10.07-30.9.08.
Professeur des Universités, Paris 1, Panthéon-Sorbonne, 1.10.08-30.9.10

Administrative positions

Head of the Unit of Theoretical Philosophy, University of Helsinki, 2010-2014.
Member of the Council of the Department of Philosophy, History, Culture and Art Studies, University of Helsinki, 2010-2014.
Head of the Department of Philosophy, University of Helsinki, 2001-2003.
Coordinator of the European PhD-Net in Epistemology, Language and Mind (currently)

Membership in Editorial Boards, Scientific Committees, etc.

Synthese (area editor for logic and mathematics)
Acta Philosophica Fennica
Logic, Epistemology and the Unity of Science Journal of Applied Logic
The Journal of Knowledge, Rationality and Action
Theoria
Chair of the local organizing committee of ESSLLI´01, Helsinki, 2001.
Coordinator of the Logic Program at IHPST, Paris, 2004-2007.
Coordinator of the logical programme at the “Cogmaster” (with Denis Bonnay), Department of Cognitive Studies, Ecole Normale Supèrieure, Paris, 2004-2009.
Member of the Advisory Board of the Scandinavian Logic Society

Other honors

Vice-President of the Institut International de Philosophie (IIP) (2014-2016)
Member of the Finnish Academy of Science and Letters
Member of the Academiae Europaeae
Associated member of the Institute of the History and Philosophy of Science and Technics (IHPST)
Doctoris Honoris Causa, Tarash Sevcenko University, Kiev (2016)

Bibliography

Monographs

1. Sandu, G., 1991, Studies in Game-Theoretical Logics and Semantics, (doctoral dissertation), Reports from the Department of Philosophy, University of Helsinki.

2. Hintikka, J. and G. Sandu, 1991, On the Methodology of Linguistics, Basil Blackwell.

3. Francois Rivenc and G. Sandu, 2009, Entre Logique et Langage, Vrin, Paris,

4. A. Mann, G. Sandu and M. Sevenster, 2011, Independence-Friendly Logic: A strategic approach, London Mathematical Society, Lecture Notes, Cambridge University Press.

5. M. Panza, G. Sandu, and H.B. Sinacoeur, 2015, Reflections on Frege’s and Dedekind’s logicism, Springer.

6. Sandu, G., 2015, Logic, Language, and Games, Acta Philosophica Fennica.

Edited volumes

1. Juliette Kennedy and Gabriel Sandu (eds.), 2003, History of Logic, Guest Editors, Synthese 137, Nrs 1-2.

2. Jacques Dubucs and Gabriel Sandu (eds.), 2005, Les Chemins de la Logique, in Pour la Science, Paris.

3. Marco Panza, John Mumma and Gabriel Sandu (eds.), 2012, Diagrammatic Reasoning, Special number or Synthese, 186, nr.1

4. M. Dumitru and G. Sandu (eds.), 2013, Truth, Proceedings of the Workshop on Truth of the Institut International de Philosophie, Bucharest.

5. Sandu, G., Parvu, I. and Toader, I., (eds.), 2015, Romanian Studies in Philosophy of Science, Springer.

6. Hans van Ditmarsch and G. Sandu (eds.), 2018, Outstanding Logicians: Jaakko Hintikka on knowledge and game-theoretical semantics, Volume 12, Springer.

Peer reviewed articles

1. J. Almog, V. Halava and Sandu G., forthcoming, ‘Natural Logic, Infinity and model theoretic reductions of semantic content’, Theoria

2. Barbero, F. and Sandu G., 2021, ‘Team semantics for interventionist counterfactuals’, Journal of philosophical logic, 50, pp 471-521

3. Barbero, F. and Sandu G., 2019, ‘Interventionist counterfactuals on causal teams’, ECPTS, proceedings of CREST 2018, EPTCS 286, pp. 16-30.

4. Sandu, G., 2017, ‘On a combination of truth and probability: IF probabilistic logic’, IFcolog Journal of logics and their applications 4, pp. 1447-1457.

5. Sandu, G., 2017, ‘Commentary on Jaakko Hintikka’s “IF logic and linguistic theorizing’, IFcolog Journal of Logics and their applications 4, pp. 1023-1027.

6. Sandu G., 2016, ‘Review of ‘Logic in Games,’ by Johan van Benthem’, Australasian Journal of Philosophy 93, 4, pp. 1-4.

7. Sandu G, 2014, ‘Truth and probability in game-theoretical semantics’, Teorema 33, 2, pp. 151-170.

8. F. Barbero and G. Sandu, 2014, ‘Signaling in Independence-friendly logic’, Logic Journal of IGPL, 22 (4), pp. 638-664.

9. Sandu G., 2013, ‘Dynamic logic vs GTS: A case study’, Logičeskie issledovania 19, pp- 200-224

10. Sandu G., 2012, ‘Independence-Friendly Logic: Dependence and Independence of Quantifiers in Logic’, Philosophy Compass, 7, pp. 691-711

11. Sandu G. and J. Boyer, 2011, ‘Between truth and proof’, Synthese 187, pp. 821-832.

12. C. Proietti and G. Sandu, 2010, ‘Fitch’s paradox and ceteris paribus modalities,’ Synthese 173 (1), pp. 75-87.

13. M. Sevenster and G. Sandu, 2010, ‘Nash equilibrium semantics’, Annals of Pure and Applied Logics 161, pp. 618-631.

14. Sandu G., 2009, ‘Review of ‘Dependence logic: A new approach to Independence-friendly logic’ by Joukko Väänänen’’, Theoria 75, 52-64

15. Hyttinen, T. and G. Sandu, 2004, 'Truth and Definite Truth', Annals of Pure and Applied Logics, vol. 126, pp. 49-55.

16. T. Hyttinen and G. Sandu, 2004, ‘Deflationism and arithmetic truth’, Dialectica, vol. 58, pp. 413-426.

17. Sandu G., 2006, ‘Compositional semantics’, Protosociology 23, pp. 1-23

18. Sandu, G. and T. Hyttinen, 2001, 'IF-logic and the Foundations of Mathematics', Synthese 121, pp. 37-47.

19. Sandu G. and J. Hintikka, 2001, ‘Aspects of compositionality’, Journal of Logic, Language and Information 10, pp. 49-61.

20. Sandu G, and A. Pietarinen, 2001, P’artiality and games: propositional logic’, Logic Journal of the IGPL, 101-127.

21. Sandu, G. and A. Pietarinen, 2000, ‘Games in Philosophical Logic’, Nordic Journal of Philosophical Logic 4, 143-173.

22. T. Hyttinen and G. Sandu, 2000, ‘Henkin quantifiers and the definability of truth’, Journal of Philosophical Logic 29, pp. 507-527.

23. Sandu G., 1998, ‘IF logic and truth-definition’, Journal of Philosophical Logic 27, pp. 143-164.

24.Sandu G., 1998, ‘Partially interpreted relations vs partially interpreted quantifiers’ Journal of Philosophical Logic 27, pp. 587-601.

25. Sandu G., 1997, ‘The logic of informational independence on finite models’, Logic Journal of the IGPL 5, pp. 79-95.

26 Sandu G., 1997, ‘On the theory of anaphora: dynamic predicate logic vs game-theoretical semantics’,Linguistics and Philosophy 20, pp.147-174.

27. Hintikka J. and G. Sandu, 1996, ‘A revolution in logic?’, Nordic Journal of Philosophical Logic, 1, pp. 169-183.

28 Sandu G. and R. Tuomela, 1996, ‘Joint action and group action made precise’, Synthese 105, pp. 319-345.

29, Hintikka J. and G. Sandu, 1995, ‘What is the logic of parallel processing?’. International Journal of Foundations of Computer Science 6, pp. 27-49.

30. Hintikka J. and G. Sandu, 1995, ‘The fallacies of the new theory of reference’ Synthese 104, pp. 245-283.

31. Hintikka J. and G. Sandu, 1994, ‘What is a quantifier?’, Synthese 98, pp. 113-129.

32. Hintikka J. and G. Sandu, 1994, ‘Uses and misuses of Frege’s ideas’The Monist 77, pp. 278-293.

33. Sandu G., 1994, ‘Some aspects of negation in English, Synthese 99, pp. 345-360.

34. Wolenski J. and G. Sandu, 1994, ‘Review of F. P. Ramsey, Notes on philosophy, probability and mathematics, edited by edited by M. G. Galavotti, History of Logic, Bibliopolis, Napoli, 1991’ and ‘Review of F. P. Ramsey On truth: Original manuscripts materials (1927-1929) from the Ramsey Collection at the University of Pittsburgh, edited by N. Rescher and U. Majer, Episteme 16, Kluwer, Dordrecht, 1991’, Synthese 101, pp. 121-127.

35. Sandu G., 1993, ‘On the logic of informational independence and its applications’, Journal of Philosophical Logic 22, pp. 29-60.

36. Sandu G. and J. Väänänen, 1992, ‘Partially ordered connectives’, _Zeitschrift fur Mathematische Logik und Grundlagen der Mathematik 38, pp. 361-372.

37. Hintikka J. and G. Sandu, _1992, ‘The skeleton in Frege’s cupboard: The standard vs nonstandard distinction’, Journal of Philosophy 89, pp. 290-315.

38. G. Sandu, 1990, ‘Stephen Neale on Descriptions. Critical review’, Semiotica 93, pp. 365-370.

39. Klima, G. and G. Sandu, 1990, ‘Numerical quantifiers in game-theoretical semantics’, Theoria 81, pp. 173-192.

Peer reviewed chapters

1. Sandu, G., 2020, Functional anaphora and arbitrary objects’, in Mircea Dumitru (ed.), Metaphysics, Meaning, and Modality : Themes from Kit Fine, chapter 5, Oxford University Press.

2. Sandu, G., 2020, ‘Dependencies between quantifiers vs dependencies between variables’, in Gabriele M. Mras, P. Weingartner, and Bernhard Ritter (eds.), Philosophy of Logic and Mathematics, Contributions of the Austrian Ludwig Wittgenstein Society, Vol. XXVI 41th International Wittgenstein Symposium Kirchberg am Wechsel, chapter 15, de Gruyter.

3. M. Cadet & Sandu, G., 2021, ‘Logiques d’ordres supérieurs’ (Higher-order logics), in F. Poggiolesi and P. Wagner (eds.) Précis de philosophie de la logique, Chapter 5, Editions de la Sorbonne.

4. Sandu G, C. Proietti and F. Rivenc, 2018, ‘Bivalence and future contingency’ in Hansson S. and V. Hendricks, (eds.), Introduction to Formal Philosophy. Switzerland: Springer, pp. 333-350, 17 (Springer Undergraduate Texts in Philosophy).

5. Sandu, G., 2018, ‘Short overview of Hintikka’s logic’ in van Ditmarsch, H. and G. Sandu, (eds.), Jaakko Hintikka on Knowledge and Game-Theoretical Semantics, pp. 1-18.

6. Sandu G. and Velica S, 2017, ‘Modeling Monty Hall in IF logic’ in C. Baskent, L. Moss and R. Ramanujam (eds.), Rohit Parikh on Logic, Language and Society: Outstanding Contributions to Logic: Rohit Parik. Springer, pp. 165-184.

7. Sandu G., 2015, ‘Languages of imperfect information’, in j. van Benthem, S. Gosh and R. Verbrugge, (eds.), Models of strategic reasoning: Logic, games and communities. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg, p. 202-251.

8. Sandu G., 2015, ‘Frege, Russell, Ramsey and the notion of arbitrary function’, in m. Panza, G. Sandu and H. B. Sinacoeur, Reflections on Frege’s and Dedekind’s logicism, chapter 3, pp. 97-116.

9. Sandu G., 2014, ‘An alternative analysis of signaling games’, in A. Baltag, S. Smets (eds.), Johan van Benthem on Logic and Information Dynamics. Outstanding Contributions to Logic, vol 5. Springer, Cham, pp. 529-544.

10. Sandu G., 2013, ‘Probabilistic IF logic’ in Lodaya, K (ed.) Logic and Its Application: 5th Indian Conference, ICLA 2013, Chennai, India, January 2013, Proceedings. Springer, pp. 69-79. (Lecture Notes in Computer Science).

11. Sandu G., ‘Games in logic’, in (no editor given), Baltic International Yearbook of Cognition, Logic and Communication, vol. 8, pp. 1-30.

12. Sandu G., 2012, ‘Compositionality and the Context Principle’, in Werning, M., Hinzen, W. and Machery, E. (eds.), The Oxford Handbook of Compositionality, Oxford University Press, pp. 262 - 278 (Oxford Handbooks).

13. Sandu, G., 2012, ‘IF logic and foundations of mathematics’, Philosophy, Mathematics, Linguistics, Aspects of Interaction. St. Petersburg, pp. 175-181.

14. Sandu, G. and J. Jacot, 2012, ‘Quantification and anaphora in natural language’, in Schantz, R (ed.), Prospects for Meaning. Germany: de Gruyter, Vol. 3. pp. 609-628.

15. Sandu G., 2011, ‘Game-theoretical semantics’, in Leon H. and Pettigrew, R. (eds.) Continuum Companion to Philosophical Logic. Continuum, pp. 216-270. (Bloomsbury Companions).

16. Sandu, G. 2010, ‘Independence of quantifiers in classical logic’, in Kijania-PLacek, K., Poller, O. & Wolenski, J. &Czarnecki, T., (eds.) The Analytical Way: Proceedings of the 6th European Congress of Analytic Philosophy. College Publications, p. 67-82 15 p. (Studies in Logic).

17. Lenci A. and G. Sandu, 2009, ‘Logic and linguistics in the Twentieth Century’, in L. Haaparanta (ed.) The Development of Modern logic. Oxford University Press, pp. 775 - 847.

18. Sandu G. and T. Aho, 2009, ‘Logic and semantics in the Twentieth century’ in Haaparanta, L. (ed.), The development of modern logic, Oxford University Press, pp. 562 - 612.

19. Sandu, G., 2008, ‘Games and language’, in Apt, K. & van Rooij, R. (eds.) New Perspectives on Games and Interaction, Amsterdam University Press, Vol. 4. pp. 179-197. (Texts in Logic and Games)

20. Sandu, G., 2008, ‘Vérité, logique IF et la logique trivalente’, in J. Hintikka, Les principes des mathematiques revisitées, Vrin, Paris, postface.

21. Sandu, G., 2007, ‘Two notions of scope’, in A. Pietarinen (ed.), Game Theory and Linguistic Meaning. Current research in the semantics/pragmatics interface, 18, Elsevier Scientific Publ. pp. 170-182.

22. J. Hintikka and G. Sandu., 2007, ‘What is logic?’, in Jacquette, D. (ed.), Philosophy of logic. Handbook of the Philosophy of Science, Amsterdam: Elsevier Scientific Publ, pp. 13 - 40.

23. Sandu, G., 2006, ‘Hintikka and the new theory of reference’ in Auxier, R. E. and Hahn, L. E., The Philosophy of Jaakko Hintikka, Open court publishing company, pp. 541-555. (The Library of Living Philosophers; vol. 30).

24. Sandu, G., 2005, ‘Ramsey and the notion of arbitrary function’ in Frapolli, M. (ed.), F. P. Ramsey: Critical Reassessments, Continuum, pp. 237-256.

25. Pietarinen, A. and G. Sandu, 2004, ‘IF logic, game-theoretical semantics and philosophy of science’ in Logic, Epistemology and the Unity of Science. Springer, pp. 105-138.

26. T. Janasik, G. Sandu and A. Pietarinen, 2003, ’Anaphora and extensive games’ in M. Andronis, E. Debenport, A Pycha and K. Yoshimura (eds.), Chicago Linguistic Society 38, 285-295.

27. Sandu, G. and A. Pietarinen, 2003, ‘Informationally independent connectives’ in Van Loon, G. Mints, and R. Muskens (eds.) Games, Logic, and Constructive Sets, vol. 9, CSLI Publications, pp. 23-41.

28. Sandu G. and T. Janasik, 2003, ‘Dynamic Game semantics’, in J. Peregrin (ed.), Meaning: The Dynamic Turn, Elsevier, pp. 215-240.

29. Sandu G., ‘Partially interpreted generalized quantifiers’ in T. Czarnecki, K. Kijana-Placek, T. Placek and A. Rojszczak (eds.), Philosophy and Logic: In Search of the Polish Tradition, Kluwer Academic Publishers, pp. 93-108.

30. Sandu, G., 2000, ‘Minimalism and the definability of truth’ in A. Kanamori (ed.), Proceedings of the Twentieth World Congress of Philosophy, vol. 6 (Logic and Analytic Philosophy), Philosophy Documentation Centre, Bowling Green State University, pp. 143-153.

31. Hintikka J. and G. Sandu, 1999, ‘Tarski’s guilty secret: compositionality’, in J. Wolenski and E. Köhler (eds.), Alfred Tarski and the Vienna Circle, Kluwer Academic Publishers, pp. 217-230.

32. Miller, K. and Sandu G., 1997, ‘Weak Commitments’, in Contemporary Action Theory, vol. II. Dordrecht: Kluwer Academic, Vol. 1997. p. 273-294 21 p. (Synthese Library; no. 267).

33. Sandu G., 1997, ‘Reasoning about collective goals’ in J. P. Muller and N.R. Jennings (eds.),

Intelligent Agents III, Springer, pp. 131-140.

34. Hintikka J. and G. Sandu., 1997, ’Game-theoretical semantics’ in J. van Benthem and A. ter meulen (eds.), Handbook of Logic and Language, Elsevier Science Publishers B.V., pp. 361-410.

35. Hella, L. and G. Sandu, 1995, ‘Partially ordered connectives and finite graphs’ in M. Krynicki, M. Mostowski and L. Szczerba (eds.), Quantifiers: Logics, Models and Computation, vol. 2, pp. 79-88.

36. Hintikka J. and G. Sandu, 1994, ’Metaphor and other kinds of nonliteral meaning’ in J. Hintikka, and G. Sandu (eds.), Aspects of metaphor, pp. 151-187.

37. Sandu G., 1991, ‘Choice set quantifiers’ in L. Haaparanta, M. Kusch and I. Niiniluoto (eds.), Language, Knowledge and Intentionality: Perspectives on the Philosophy of Jaakko Hintikka, Acta Philosophica Fennica 49, pp. 252-264.

38. Hintikka, J. and G. Sandu, 1989, ’Informational independence as a semantical phenomenon’, in J. Fenstad et al. (eds.), Logic, Methodology and Philosophy of Science VIII, vol.126, Elsevier Science Publ., pp. 571-589.

Encyclopedia articles

1. Sandu G., 2007, ‘Games and language’ in Hogan, P. C. (ed.), The Cambridge Encyclopedia of the language sciences. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, pp. 328-331.

2. Salo, P. and G. Sandu., 2006, ‘Compositionality: semantic aspects’ in Brown, K. (ed.), Encyclopedia of Language and Linguistics. Amsterdam: Elsevier Scientific Publ., 4 pages.

3. Hintikka, J. and G. Sandu, 1998, ‘Quantifiers’ in E. Craig (ed.), Routledge Encyclopedia of Philosophy

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