Gödel, mathematics, and possible worlds

Mark Van Atten

pp. 147-155

in: Mark Van Atten, Essays on Gödel's reception of Leibniz, Husserl and Brouwer, Berlin, Springer, 2015

Abstract

Hintikka has claimed that Gödel did not believe in possible worlds and that the actualism this induces is the motivation behind his Platonism. I argue that Hintikka is wrong about what Gödel believed, and that, moreover, there exists a phenomenological unification of Gödel's Platonism and possible worlds theory. This text was written for a special issue of Axiomathes on the philosophy of Nicolai Hartmann, which explains the two introductory paragraphs.

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Gödel Kurt