The different problems facing research universities are discussed in 'The future of the research university: A Harvard Magazine roundtable', Harvard Magazine, September-October 2000, pp. 46-57, 102-104.
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The methodological ideas that form the background of the first half of this paper are discussed in Jaakko Hintikka (1999), Inquiry as Inquiry (Selected Papers, vol. 5, Kluwer Academic: Dordrecht) especially in the essay 'Is logic the key to all good reasoning?'
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Galileo's background is discussed in the essays collected in Simo Knuuttila (ed., 1981), Re-Forging the Great Chain of Beings (D. Reidel: Dordrecht) especially the first three essays by Jaakko Hintikka reprinted there.
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Aristotle's notions of possibility and necessity are analyzed in Jaakko Hintikka (1977), Aristotle on Modality and Determinism (Acta Philosophica Fennica, vol. 29, no. 1, Societas Philosophica Fennica: Helsinki).
