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There's Something About Gödel

Autor Francesco Berto
en Limba Engleză Paperback – 6 noi 2009
Berto's highly readable and lucid guide introduces students and the interested reader to Gödel's celebrated Incompleteness Theorem, and discusses some of the most famous - and infamous - claims arising from Gödel's arguments. * Offers a clear understanding of this difficult subject by presenting each of the key steps of the Theorem in separate chapters * Discusses interpretations of the Theorem made by celebrated contemporary thinkers * Sheds light on the wider extra-mathematical and philosophical implications of Gödel's theories * Written in an accessible, non-technical style
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Specificații

ISBN-13: 9781405197670
ISBN-10: 1405197676
Pagini: 254
Dimensiuni: 152 x 229 x 14 mm
Greutate: 0.37 kg
Editura: Wiley
Locul publicării:Chichester, United Kingdom

Public țintă

Undergraduate students of philosophy, logic and computing; the general reader interested in understanding Gödel s Incompleteness Theorem, and its wider implications

Notă biografică

Francesco Berto teaches logic, ontology, and philosophy of mathematics at the universities of Aberdeen in Scotland, and Venice and Milan-San Raffaele in Italy. He holds a Chaire d'Excellence fellowship at CNRS in Paris, where he has taught ontology at the École Normale Supérieure, and he is a visiting professor at the Institut Wiener Kreis of the University of Vienna. He has written papers for American Philosophical Quarterly, Dialectica, The Philosophical Quarterly, the Australasian Journal of Philosophy, the European Journal of Philosophy, Philosophia Mathematica, Logique et Analyse, and Metaphysica, and runs the entries "Dialetheism" and "Impossible Worlds" in the Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy. His book How to Sell a Contradiction has won the 2007 Castiglioncello prize for the best philosophical book by a young philosopher.

Descriere

There's Something About Godel is a lucid and accessible guide to Godel's revolutionary Incompleteness Theorem , considered one of the most astounding argumentative sequences in the history of human thought. It is also an exploration of the most controversial alleged philosophical outcomes of the Theorem.