Book Review of: FRANCESCO BERTO. There's Something about Godel. Malden, Mass., and Oxford: Wiley-Blackwell, 2009. ISBN 978-1-4051-9766-3 (hbk); 978-1-4051-9767-0 (pbk). Pp. xx + 233. English translation of Tutti pazzi per Godel! (Rome: Gius, Laterza & Figli, 2008)
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McGee, Vann
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August 2011
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Philosophia Mathematica
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Oxford University Press
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McGee, V. “Book Review of: FRANCESCO BERTO. There’s Something About Godel. Malden, Mass., and Oxford: Wiley-Blackwell, 2009. ISBN 978-1-4051-9766-3 (hbk); 978-1-4051-9767-0 (pbk). Pp. Xx + 233. English Translation of Tutti Pazzi Per Godel! (Rome: Gius, Laterza & Figli, 2008).” Philosophia Mathematica 19, no. 3 (August 23, 2011): 367–369.
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There's Something about Godel is a bargain: two books in one. The first half is a gentle but rigorous introduction to the incompleteness theorems for the mathematically uninitiated. The second is a survey of the philosophical, psychological, and sociological consequences people have attempted to derive from the theorems, some of them quite fantastical.
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Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Department of Linguistics and Philosophy
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https://doi.org/10.1093/philmat/nkr025
