Kurt Gödel philosopher -- scientist (Q2787073)

Consisting for the most part of essays that are the outcome of talks given at the international conference ``Kurt Gödel philosopher: from logic to cosmology'', held in Aix-en-Provence in 2013, this volume deals with the contents of part of Gödel's \textit{Nachlass}, namely the notebooks \textit{Philosophical remarks} (the \textit{Max Phil}), written in Gabelsberger shorthand. There is a description of the \textit{Max Phil} and the challenge of deciphering them, as well essays on specific themes on which the \textit{Max Phil}, that intellectual diary, outline of his rational metaphysics, that source of reflections on logic, mathemattics, physics, and theology, shed new light.NEWLINENEWLINEThe subjects are: (i) Gödel's contributions to relativity, (ii) his views, reviving Leibniz, on topics in the physics of matter, (iii) Gödel close reading of Peano, (iv) his realism and his position vis-à-vis Frege's Sinn/Bedeutung, (v) Gödel's 1944 paper on Russell and his new solution to Russell's paradox, as well as Gödel's reflection on the theory of truth that Russell presented by \textit{Principia Mathematica} and in other writings; (vi) Gödel's comments on Aristotle's philosophy of mind and its connections with the iterative concept of set, (vii) the triple existence of concepts in Gödel's philosophy (in God's consciousness, in human consciousness, and in the real world), (viii) Gödel's justification of the reflection principle in set theory by analogy to Leibniz's monadology, (ix) Leibniz as an inspiration for Gödel's revision of the \textit{Dialectica} interpretation and for much more.