Leila Haaparanta

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.[1]

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.[1]

Haaparanta is the editor of:

• Frege Synthesized: Essays on the Philosophical and Foundational Work of Gottlob Frege (with Jaakko Hintikka, D. Reidel Publishing, 1986)[2]
• Mind, Meaning and Mathematics: Essays on the Philosophical Views of Husserl and Frege (Synthese Library 237, Springer, 1994)[3]
• Analytic Philosophy in Finland (with Ilkka Niiniluoto, Rodopi, 2003)[4]
• The Development of Modern Logic (Oxford University Press, 2009)[5]
• Categories of Being: Essays on Metaphysics and Logic (with Heikki J. Koskinen, Oxford University Press, 2012)[6]

Haaparanta was elected to the Finnish Academy of Science and Letters in 2002, and to the Academia Europaea in 2011.[1]

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.[7]