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Kurt Gödel:The Modern Development Of The Foundations Of Mathematics In The Light Of Philosophy

Kurt Gödel:The Modern Development Of The Foundations Of Mathematics In The Light Of Philosophy

Released Friday, 1st July 2011
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Kurt Gödel:The Modern Development Of The Foundations Of Mathematics In The Light Of Philosophy

Kurt Gödel:The Modern Development Of The Foundations Of Mathematics In The Light Of Philosophy

Kurt Gödel:The Modern Development Of The Foundations Of Mathematics In The Light Of Philosophy

Kurt Gödel:The Modern Development Of The Foundations Of Mathematics In The Light Of Philosophy

Friday, 1st July 2011
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A reading of the entire lecture by Gary geck. It should become very clear that Gödel was a lone voice in his age of logical positivism, skepticism and analytical philosophy such as Harvard’s Dr. Willard Quine’s variety. Quine of course called the higher reaches of Set Theory mere mathematical recreation, a view clearly at odds with Gödel’s. According to Dr. Richard Tieszen of San Jose University, "The three philosophers Gödel found most congenial to his own way of thinking were Plato, Leibniz and Husserl." In fact Gödel saw much of Western Thought as being on the wrong path since it had strayed from the influence of Leibniz in the 18th Century. It is surprising that Gödel promotes Kant (albeit in a modified form) with much enthusiasm in this lecture when Kant certainly helped to hasten the demise of Leibnizianism. Kant once called Plato's work 'babble'.
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