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Two draft letters from Gödel on self-knowledge of reason

Mark Van Atten

pp. 157-162

Abstract

In his text "The modern development of the foundations of mathematics in the light of philosophy' from around 1961, Gödel announces a turn to Husserl's phenomenology to find the foundations of mathematics. In Gödel's archive there are two draft letters that shed some further light on the exact strategy that he formulated for himself in the early 1960s. Transcriptions of these letters are presented, together with some comments.

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

Pages: 157-162

DOI: 10.1007/978-3-319-10031-9_8

Full citation:

Van Atten Mark (2015) Two draft letters from Gödel on self-knowledge of reason, In: Essays on Gödel's reception of Leibniz, Husserl and Brouwer, Dordrecht, Springer, 157–162.