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Philosophia Mathematica 2007 15(2):245-257; doi:10.1093/philmat/nkm020
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Copyright © The Author 2007. Published by Oxford University Press.

Book Review

An Austrian Mélange{dagger}

ECKEHART KÖLER, PETER WEIBEL, MICHAEL STÖLTZNER, BERND BULDT, CARSTEN KLEIN, and WERNER DEPAULI-SCHIMANOVICH-GÖTTIG, eds. Kurt Gödel. Wahrheit & Beweisbarkeit. Band 1: Dokumente und historische Analysen [Kurt Gödel. Truth and Provability. Vol. 1: Documents and Historical Analyses]. Vienna: öbv et hpt, 2002. ISBN 3-209-03824-1. Pp. 279.

BERND BULDT, ECKEHART KÖHLER, MICHAEL STÖLTZNER, PETER WEIBEL, CARSTEN KLEIN, and WERNER DEPAULI-SCHIMANOVICH-GÖTTIG, eds. Kurt Gödel. Wahrheit & Beweisbarkeit. Band 2: Kompendium zum Werk [Vol. 2: Compendium of Work]. Vienna: öbv et hpt, 2002. ISBN 3-209-03835-X. Pp. 447.

Hannes Leitgeb*

* Department of Philosophy, University of Bristol, Bristol BS8 1TB, UK

Correspondence: Hannes.Leitgeb@bristol.ac.uk

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While the Gödel centenary year 2006 triggered a lot of conference and workshop activity on Gödel, the years leading to it stand out by exhibiting several excellent publications on Gödel's life and work, most notably the completion of the Kurt Gödel Collected Works series (five volumes, Oxford University Press, edited by S. Feferman et al.1). The two volumes of Kurt Gödel. Wahrheit & Beweisbarkeit, written in German and edited by E. Köhler et al., constitute something like the ‘German-Austrian contribution’ to this renewal of interest in Gödel's legacy, even though not all of the articles in the volumes actually have German or Austrian authors.2 Indeed, as P. Weibel explains in the preface of the first volume, one of the intentions of the editors was to present Gödel as part of the cultural history of Austria. At the same time, the volumes highlight the contrast between Gödel's . . . [Full Text of this Article]


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