[FOM] Goedel on Philosophy

[Ignacio Nattochdag]

It seems to me that any step forward in philosophy today must be made
through mathematical problems, that is to say: there is a world of
philosophical meaning in the P-NP question or in the study of Aleph1
semi proper forcing notions, to name but two examples: but there are
few able philosophical discussions of this questions, probably due to
the fact that the specialists who are facile in those technical areas
are not facile in philosophy, and viceversa; this sort of approach to
philosophy was already practiced by Godel himself, remember among
others his paper: "some theorems on the foundations of mathematics and
their implications".

Leibniz, Descartes, Frege, Russell, Whitehead, Lukasiewicz, Tarski,
Weyl, etc, were all able mathematicians with a strong philosophical
vein.

I. N.