Band 5 Maximen V / Maxims V

Kurt Gödel

Published by De Gruyter 2024

Band 5 Maximen V / Maxims V

Volume 5: Maxims V

Kurt Gödel
Edited by: Eva-Maria Engelen

Part of the multi-volume work Philosophische Notizbücher / Philosophical Notebooks

https://doi.org/10.1515/9783111091723

Overview
Contents

About this book

Over a period of 22 years (1934-1955), the mathematician Kurt Gödel wrote down philosophical remarks, the so-called Maximen Philosophie (Max Phil). They are preserved in 15 notebooks in Gabelsberger shorthand. The first booklet contains general philosophical considerations, booklets two and three consist of Gödel's individual ethics. The following books show that Gödel developed a philosophy of science in which he places his discussions on physics, psychology, biology, mathematics, language, theology and history in the context of a metaphysics.

A complete, historical-critical edition of Gödel's Philosophical Notebooks is now being prepared for the first time at the Kurt Gödel Research Centre of the Berlin-Brandenburg Academy of Sciences and Humanities. One volume will be published each year as part of this edition.

Volume 5 is particularly interesting because Gödel reveals his satisfaction with it at the beginning of 'Maximen V'. He states that he has arrived at independent thought here, which has not primarily come about through discussion with other authors. Furthermore, in addition to numerous remarkable philosophical considerations, there is a previously unknown interpretation of his (second) incompleteness theorem that goes beyond the mathematical one.

First complete, historical-critical, bilingual edition of Kurt Gödel’s philosophical notebooks

An as yet unknown philosophical account of one of the greatest thinkers of the 20^th century

Cornerstone of 20th Century philosophy

Author / Editor information

Eva-Maria Engelen, Berlin-Brandenburg Academy of Sciences and Humanities, Berlin, Germany..

Topics

Frontmatter Publicly Available Download PDF	1
Inhalt / Contents Publicly Available Download PDF	5
Kurt Gödel – Philosophische Notizbücher
Image Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	8
Dank Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	9
Editorische Notizen Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	9
Einleitung Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	13
Max V Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	41
Kurt Gödel – Philosophical Notebooks
Acknowledgments Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	109
Editorial Notes Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	109
Introduction Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	111
Max V Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	139
Biographische Skizzen – Biographical Vignettes Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	201
Literaturverzeichnis und Werkregister – References and Index of References Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	203
Personenregister – Index of Names Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	206

(Deutsch)

Languages: German, English
Publisher: De Gruyter
Audience: Scholars in the fields of philosophy, mathematics; readers interested in philosophy; Gödel researchers; institutes, libraries
Pages
- Main content: 208
Illustrations
- Illustrations: 1
Keywords: Philosophical remarks; metaphysics; philosophy of science; twentieth-century philosophy

eBook

Published: December 31, 2023
ISBN: 9783111091723

Hardcover

Published: December 31, 2023
ISBN: 9783111081144