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HUSSERL AND GÖDEL’S INCOMPLETENESS THEOREMS

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  03 July 2017

MIRJA HARTIMO
MIRJA HARTIMO*
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Norwegian University of Life Sciences
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*NORWEGIAN UNIVERSITY OF LIFE SCIENCES PO BOX 5003 1432 AAS, NORWAY E-mail: mirjahartimo@gmail.com
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Abstract

The paper examines Husserl’s interactions with logicians in the 1930s in order to assess Husserl’s awareness of Gödel’s incompleteness theorems. While there is no mention about the results in Husserl’s known exchanges with Hilbert, Weyl, or Zermelo, the most likely source about them for Husserl is Felix Kaufmann (1895–1949). Husserl’s interactions with Kaufmann show that Husserl may have learned about the results from him, but not necessarily so. Ultimately Husserl’s reading marks on Friedrich Waismann’s Einführung in das mathematische Denken: die Begriffsbildung der modernen Mathematik, 1936, show that he knew about them before his death in 1938.

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01A6003-0303A05Edmund HusserlGödel’s incompleteness theoremsFelix KaufmannFriedrich Waismann

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The Review of Symbolic Logic , Volume 10 , Issue 4 , December 2017 , pp. 638 - 650
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Copyright © Association for Symbolic Logic 2017 

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