Francesco Berto

There's Something About Gödel (eBook, PDF)

The Complete Guide to the Incompleteness Theorem

• Format: PDF

Produktbeschreibung

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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Produktdetails

• Verlag: John Wiley & Sons
• Seitenzahl: 256
• Erscheinungstermin: 16. Juli 2009
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781444315011
• Artikelnr.: 37338512

Autorenporträt

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.

Inhaltsangabe

Acknowledgments

Prologue

Part I: Ever Since Chomsky

Part II: Unweaving the Sentence

Part III: The Mental Foundations of Behavior

Part IV: Missing Links

Epilogue

Notes

Guide to Further Study

References

Index

Rezensionen

"Boeckx has a deep familiarity with all of the (very wide-ranging) material he presents, and has done original and important work in several of these areas. He is a lucid and engaging expositor, and is highly qualified in every respect to undertake an enterprise of this nature ... [He] brings together the right topics, some right at the edge or even at the horizons of research. If I were teaching undergraduate or graduate courses in these areas, I cannot think of a competing text that I would prefer." -- Noam Chomsky

"Amongst the book's strengths, particularly commendable are the connections made to other cognitive domains and the biological sciences." (The Linguist, July 2010)
"Although each subsection is brief, the author includes chapter-by-chapter notes of cited material at the end of the text. The motivated reader will have no trouble tracking down the primary sources that the author discusses." (PsycCRITIQUES, March 2010)