There's Something About Goedel: The Complete Guide to the Incompleteness Theorem
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There's Something About Goedel: The Complete Guide to the Incompleteness Theorem
There's Something About Goedel: The Complete Guide to the Incompleteness Theorem

There's Something About Goedel: The Complete Guide to the Incompleteness Theorem

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Francesco Berto (Author)  

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Berto's highly readable and lucid guide introduces students and the interested reader to Goedel's celebrated Incompleteness Theorem, and discusses some of the most famous - and infamous - claims arising from Goedel'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 Goedel's theories Written in an accessible, non-technical style
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 Ecole Normale Superieure, 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.
  • Contributor: Francesco Berto
  • Imprint: Wiley-Blackwell
  • ISBN13: 9781405197670
  • Number of Pages: 256
  • Packaged Dimensions: 150x229x20mm
  • Packaged Weight: 408
  • Format: Paperback
  • Publisher: John Wiley and Sons Ltd
  • Release Date: 2009-11-06
  • Binding: Paperback / softback
  • Biography: 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 Ecole Normale Superieure, 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.

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