Godel's Theorem in Focus

✍ Scribed by S. G. Shanker (editor)

• Publisher: Routledge
• Year: 1987
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 271
• Series: Philosophers in Focus
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

A layman's guide to the mechanics of Godel's proof together with a lucid discussion of the issues which it raises.

✦ Table of Contents

Front Cover
Gödel's Theorem in focus
Copyright Page
Contents
Preface
Acknowledgements
I. John W. Dawson, Jr. : Kurt Gödel in Sharper Focus
II. Kurt Gödel: On Formally Undecidable Propositions of Principia Mathematica and Related Systems I (1931)
III. Stephen C. Kleene: The Work of Kurt Gödel
IV. John W. Dawson, Jr. : The Reception of Gödel's Incompleteness Theorems
V. Solomon Feferman: Kurt Gödel: Conviction and Caution
VI. Michael D. Resnik: On the Philosophical Significance of Consistency Proofs
VII. Michael Detlefsen: On Interpreting Gödel's Second Theorem
VIII. S.G. Shanker: Wittgenstein's Remarks on the Significance of Gödel's Theorem
Index