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Gödel, mathematics, and possible worlds

Mark Van Atten

pp. 147-155

Abstract

Hintikka has claimed that Gödel did not believe in possible worlds and that the actualism this induces is the motivation behind his Platonism. I argue that Hintikka is wrong about what Gödel believed, and that, moreover, there exists a phenomenological unification of Gödel's Platonism and possible worlds theory. This text was written for a special issue of Axiomathes on the philosophy of Nicolai Hartmann, which explains the two introductory paragraphs.

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Van Atten Mark (2015) Essays on Gödel's reception of Leibniz, Husserl and Brouwer. Dordrecht, Springer.

Pages: 147-155

DOI: 10.1007/978-3-319-10031-9_7

Full citation:

Van Atten Mark (2015) Gödel, mathematics, and possible worlds, In: Essays on Gödel's reception of Leibniz, Husserl and Brouwer, Dordrecht, Springer, 147–155.