Metamathematics and the Philosophical Tradition is the first work to explore in such historical depth the relationship between fundamental Philosophical quandaries regarding self-reference and meta-mathematical notions of consistency and incompleteness.
Using the insights of twentieth-century logicians from G del through Hilbert and their successors, this volume revisits the writings of Aristotle, the ancient skeptics, Anselm, and enlightenment and seventeent.
Metamathematics and the Philosophical Tradition is the first work to explore in such historical depth the relationship between fundamental Philosophical quandaries regarding self-reference and meta-mathematical notions of consistency and incompleteness