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Subject(s)

• Gödel, Kurt [Browse]
• Logicians—United States—Biography [Browse]
• Logicians—Austria—Biography [Browse]

Series

Wadsworth philosophers series [More in this series]

Summary note

This concise book offers sufficient insight into the thinking of a notable philosopher better enabling students to engage in the reading and to discuss the material in class and on paper.

Bibliographic references

Includes bibliographical references (p. 71-74).

Action note

Committed to retain in perpetuity — ReCAP Shared Collection (HUL)

Contents

• Prologue : the Köningsberg bombshell
• Gödel's life and personality
• Gödel's double-edged completeness proof
• Gödel's background
• Gödel's puzzling in[c]ompleteness proof
• The consequences of incompleteness
• Gödel's philosophical views
• Gödel as a set theorist
• The dialectic of Gödel's Dialectica interpretation
• Turing machines or Gödels machines?

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ISBN

0534575951

LCCN

^^^00269035^

OCLC

43907369

RCP

H - S

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