Godel's Introduction to Logic in 1939
This article presents three extracts from the introductory course in mathematical logic that Godel gave at the University of Notre Dame in 1939. The lectures include a few digressions, which give insight into Godel's views on logic prior to his philosophical papers of the 1940s. The first extract is Godel's first lecture. It gives the flavour of Godel's leisurely style in this course. It also includes a curious definition of logic and a discussion of implication in logic and natural language. The second extract is a discussion on undecidability and on Leibniz. The third extract concerns the paradoxes and Russell's theory of types.
Document Type: Research Article
Affiliations: UMR STL, CNRS, University Lille III, Villeneuve d'Ascq, France
Publication date: 01 February 2009
- Editorial Board
- Information for Authors
- Subscribe to this Title
- Ingenta Connect is not responsible for the content or availability of external websites
- Access Key
- Free content
- Partial Free content
- New content
- Open access content
- Partial Open access content
- Subscribed content
- Partial Subscribed content
- Free trial content