[PEN-L] RE: [PEN-L] Good Gödel, Batman!

2005-03-14 Thread Devine, James
@SUS.CSUCHICO.EDU Subject: Re: [PEN-L] Good Gödel, Batman! There was a delightfully intelligent and well-written review article of this book and another one on Goedel by Jim Holt in the New Yorker a few weeks ago. Highly recommended -- if you're in the mood for such things: http://www.newyorker.com

[PEN-L] RE: [PEN-L] RE: [PEN-L] Good Gödel, Batman!

2005-03-14 Thread Eubulides
-Original Message- From: PEN-L list [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Devine, James BTW, I posted the SLATE article simply because I think that some people use Gödel as saying anything goes. Jim Devine [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://myweb.lmu.edu/jdevine ---

[PEN-L] RE: [PEN-L] RE: [PEN-L] RE: [PEN-L] Good Gödel, Batman!

2005-03-14 Thread Devine, James
BTW, I posted the SLATE article simply because I think that some people use Gödel as saying anything goes. Jim Devine [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://myweb.lmu.edu/jdevine --- Do you have any evidence of people using Godelian arguments in saying anything goes in

[PEN-L] RE: [PEN-L] RE: [PEN-L] RE: [PEN-L] RE: [PEN-L] Good Gödel, Batman!

2005-03-14 Thread Eubulides
-Original Message- From: PEN-L list [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Devine, James BTW, I posted the SLATE article simply because I think that some people use Gödel as saying anything goes. Jim Devine [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://myweb.lmu.edu/jdevine --- Do

Re: [PEN-L] Good Gödel, Batman!

2005-03-12 Thread Michael Pollak
There was a delightfully intelligent and well-written review article of this book and another one on Goedel by Jim Holt in the New Yorker a few weeks ago. Highly recommended -- if you're in the mood for such things: http://www.newyorker.com/critics/atlarge/?050228crat_atlarge Michael

[PEN-L] Good Gödel, Batman!

2005-03-11 Thread Devine, James
Does Gödel Matter? The romantic's favorite mathematician didn't prove what you think he did. By Jordan Ellenberg the Washington Post's SLATE/Posted Thursday, March 10, 2005, at 4:27 AM PT The reticent and relentlessly abstract logician Kurt Gödel might seem an unlikely candidate for popular