24.118 Paradox & Infinity, Spring 2013
Author(s)
Rayo, Agustin
Evans, Owain R.
Alternative Title
Paradox & Infinity
Date Issued
June 2013
Abstract
This course explores different kinds of infinity; the paradoxes of set theory; the reduction of arithmetic to logic; formal systems; paradoxes involving the concept of truth; Gödel’s incompleteness theorems; the nonformalizable nature of mathematical truth; and Turing machines.
Subjects
time travel
free will
Newcomb
Newcomb's Paradox
probability
Zeno
Zeno's Paradox
infinity
axiom of choice
computability
Godel
Godel's theorem
prisoner's dilemma
higher infinite
MIT Department
Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Department of Linguistics and Philosophy
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