Special Issue: Kurt Gödel (1906-1978) on Mathematics and Logic
Guest Editor: Richard Tieszen
June 2006, Volume 14 Number 2
The idea of producing a special issue of Philosophia Mathematica on Kurt Gödel was prompted by the recent completion of the Collected Works. With the appearance of these volumes, and especially the previously unpublished essays, Lectures, and letters in volumes III, IV, and V, we have a much better understanding of Gödel‘s deep philosophical and scientific contributions.
This special issue of Philosophia Mathematica, edited by Richard Tieszen of San José State University, is intended as a celebration of the completion of the Collected Works. By a happy coincidence, it is being published during the centenary of Gödel’s birth.
The papers included reflect a wide range of Gödel‘s interests, from the theory of computability, intuitionism, set theory, minds and machines, and issues about absolute undecidability, to realism and idealism, phenomenology, and the scope of reason.
Contents
Introduction
Are There Absolutely Unsolvable Problems? Gödel's Dichotomy
Solomon Feferman
On the Question of Absolute Undecidability
Peter Koellner
Gödel on Computability
Wilfried Sieg
Gödel’s Interpretation of Intuitionism
W.W. Tait
After Gödel: Mechanism, Reason, and Realism in the Philosophy of Mathematics
Richard Tieszen
Two Draft Letters from Gödel on Self-knowledge of Reason
Mark van Atten
Critical Studies/Book Reviews
Torkel Franzen. Gödel’s Theorem: An Incomplete Guide to its Use and Abuse
Reviewed by Stewart Shapiro
Books of Essays
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