Re: What should I say to the post-grads about Godel?

Newberry wrote:
On Jun 13, 12:04 pm, John Jones <jonescard...@xxxxxxx> wrote:
The Prof has asked me to briefly introduce to the post-grads the
significance of Godel's incompleteness theorem to logic, notions of
determinism and free-will, and to other pertinent issues in philosophy.
This might include a discussion on the significance of proof itself.

What would you say to them on this topic? A few are analytic
philosophers, but most are, I think, continentalists, though this
shouldn't matter as Godel seems to be branching everywhere. These guys
aren't stupid though ..

You should stress that Goedel's incompleteness theorem has nothing to
do with determinism and free will.

Godel thought it did. I have to say why.
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