[FOM] Did Goedel "read philosophy"?

[Jim Hardy]

Actually, Godel even did some philosophy.  There's a version of the
Ontological argument due to Godel.  Here's the reference.

Kurt Sobel, "Goedel's Ontological Proof" in {\it On Being and Saying},
Judith Thomson ed., Cambridge MA, 1987.


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Martin Davis
Sent: Tuesday, March 06, 2007 11:20 PM
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Subject: [FOM] Did Goedel "read philosophy"?

Surprisingly, Dean Buckner wrote:

 > As for Godel, did he read any philosophy?

As I thought subscribers to this list knew perfectly well, Goedel 
studied Kant in his youth, and in his later years studied Leibniz and 
then Husserl in his usual ultra-intensive manner.

Martin



                           Martin Davis
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                      Professor Emeritus, NYU
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