Episode 95: Gödel on Math

The Partially Examined Life Philosophy Podcast

Mark Linsenmayer

Society & Culture, Philosophy

4.6 • 2.3K Ratings

🗓️ 16 June 2014

⏱️ 110 minutes

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Summary

On two unpublished essays considering the implications of Godel's incompleteness theorems and asserting mathematical realism. With guest Adi Habbu.

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0:00.0	Before we get started, we'd like to invite you to a special celebration.
0:02.6	We'll be doing a live in front of an audience taping of episode 100 on Plato's Symposium,
0:08.0	near Madison, Wisconsin on Sunday, July 20th, 1-4pm.
0:11.9	To get details and reserve your spot, look for the announcement at partiallyexaminedlife.com.
0:16.0	Seeding is very limited.
0:25.2	You're listening to the partially examined Life, a philosophy podcast by some guys
0:29.1	who had one point set on doing philosophy for living, but then thought better of it.
0:33.5	Our question for episode 95 is something like, are mathematical entities real?
0:37.5	Why should philosophers bother to study them?
0:39.2	And we read two articles by Kurt Gurdlow, some basic theorems on the foundations of mathematics
0:43.6	and their implications from 1951 and the modern development of the foundation of mathematics
0:49.3	in the light of philosophy.
0:50.6	From 1961, you can join the discussion, get the texts, and lots more information at partiallyexaminedlife.com.
0:55.8	This is Mark Linton-Miras speaking to you from Madison, Wisconsin.
0:58.6	This is Wes Alwin in Boston, Massachusetts.
1:01.2	This is Dylan Casey in Middleton, Wisconsin.
1:03.9	And this is Adi Haboo in New York, New York.
1:06.5	Welcome, Adi.
1:07.6	Welcome.
1:08.6	Welcome.
1:09.1	Great to be here.
1:10.1	Thanks so much.
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