From the outside, the early 20th century obsession with the foundations of mathematics may seem strange. It may seem even stranger if we...

Albert Einstein and Kurt Godel The mathematician and educator, Morris Kline , once made a rather grand claim about Kurt Gödel ’s Inco...

Russell's Paradox   Bertrand Russell’s paradox wasn't taken as some little pleasurable game or puzzle. It "forced logician...

Some philosophers think that some scientists have a naïve and simplistic view of reduction - and indeed of much else - in science. Espe...

We can say a world in which there are no animals is also a world in which there is no horses. That appears to be a necessary truth in tha...