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

Acknowledgements
Prologue
Part I: Ever Since Chomsky
Chapter 1: Mind matters: Chomsky's dangerous idea
Chapter 2: The mechanization of the mind picture
Chapter 3: How the mind grows: From Meno to Noam
Part II: Unweaving the sentence
Chapter 4: Mental chemistry
Chapter 5: The variety of linguistic experience: The towers of Babel and
Pisa
Chapter 6: All the roads lead to Universal Grammar
Part III: The mental foundations of behavior
Chapter 7: Making sense of meaning: An instruction manual
Chapter 8: Wonderful mental life: Unthinkable in the absence of Language
Chapter 9: Grammar caught in the act
Part IV: Missing links
Chapter 10: The (mis)measure of mind
Chapter 11: Homo combinans
Chapter 12: Computational organology
Epilogue
Notes
Study guide
References
Index

Rezensionen

Boeckx has a deep familiarity with all of the (very wide-ranging) material he intends to present, 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 -- which is, I think, a very valuable one. The emerging disciplines he intends to introduce are likely to become a central part of research and teaching programs in the future. Attempts to integrate them in a form accessible to students and a general audience have been limited. His outline 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.

"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)