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]
Books
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]
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]
^Reviews of Mind, Meaning and Mathematics: Jocelyn Benoist (1995), Tijdschrift voor Filosofie,
JSTOR40887373; Wolfe Mays (1995), History and Philosophy of Logic,
doi:
10.1080/01445349508837245; Frédéric Patras (1997), Archives de Philosophie,
JSTOR43037587
^Reviews of Analytic Philosophy in Finland: Sirkku K. Hellsten (2005), Philosophy in Review,
[1]; F. Vandamme (2003), Communication and Cognition,
[2]