Hao Wang (1921-1995) was one of the few confidants of the great mathematician and logician Kurt Godel. A Logical Journey is a continuation of Wang's Reflections on Godel and also elaborates on discussions contained in From Mathematics to Philosophy. A decade in preparation, it contains important and unfamiliar insights into Godel's views on a wide range of issues, from Platonism and the nature of logic, to minds and machines, the existence of God, and positivism and phenomenology.The impact of Godel's theorem on twentieth-century thought is on par with that of Einstein's theory of relativity, Heisenberg's uncertainty principle, or Keynesian economics. These previously unpublished intimate and informal conversations, however, bring to light and amplify Godel's other major contributions to logic and philosophy. They reveal that there is much more in Godel's philosophy of mathematics than is commonly believed, and more in his philosophy than his philosophy of mathematics.Wang writes that "it is even possible that his quite informal and loosely structured conversations with me, which I am freely using in this book, will turn out to be the fullest existing expression of the diverse components of his inadequately articulated general philosophy. "The first two chapters are devoted to Godel's life and mental development. In the chapters that follow, Wang illustrates the quest for overarching solutions and grand unifications of knowledge and action in Godel's written speculations on God and an afterlife. He gives the background and a chronological summary of the conversations, considers Godel's comments on philosophies and philosophers (his support of Husserl's phenomenology and his digressions on Kant and Wittgenstein), and his attempt to demonstrate the superiority of the mind's power over brains and machines. Three chapters are tied together by what Wang perceives to be Godel's governing ideal of philosophy: an exact theory in which mathematics and Newtonian physics serve as a model for philosophy or metaphysics. Finally, in an epilog Wang sketches his own approach to philosophy in contrast to his interpretation of Godel's outlook.

Beyond Analytic Philosophy Doing Justice to What We Know Hao Wang Preface ix Introduction 1 1. Russell and philosophy in this century 45 2. A digression on Wittgenstein's philosophy 75 3. From Vienna 1925 to America 1984 101 4. Quine's logical negativism 153 5. Metaphilosophical observations 191 References 215 Chronological table 231 Index 261

王浩20年倾力之作，书中包括哥德尔一些未发表的哲学观点，接续上一本《哥德尔》的论题并将其扩展到更加广泛的领域：柏拉图主义、逻辑的本质、心灵、上帝的存在性、实证主义、现象学等等。哥德尔定理于20世纪的意义相当于爱因斯坦的相对论，海森伯格的测不准原理，凯恩斯的经济学，依据作者和哥德尔多年的私人交往与探讨写就的此书，扩展了过去人们认为的哥德尔在逻辑和哲学方面的贡献。

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