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Gespräche, Vorträge, Séancen: Kurt Gödels Wiener Protokolle 1937/38

Transkriptionen und Kommentare

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Authors:
  1. Tim Lethen

    1. Department of Philosophy, University of Helsinki, Helsinki, Finland

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  • The first book to transcribe and comment upon Kurt Gödel’s personal notes on conversations in Vienna 1937/38 and on meetings of the Zilsel-Circle
  • Provides a complete transcription of Gödel’s Protokoll-notebook from the Gabelsberger shorthand system
  • The first and only transcription and discussion of Gödel’s notes on lectures held at the Vienna Psychological Institute in 1937/38. (Hans Thirring, Konrad Lorenz, and many others.)
  • The only book to discuss Gödel’s interest in psychology, parapsychology, and demonology based on personal notes

Part of the book series: Veröffentlichungen des Instituts Wiener Kreis (WIENER KREIS, volume 31)

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Table of contents (9 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages I-XV
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  2. Einleitung

    • Tim Lethen
    Pages 1-10

  3. Gabelsberger Kurzschrift

    • Tim Lethen
    Pages 11-16

  4. Vor- und Nachbereitungen

    • Tim Lethen
    Pages 17-24

  5. Der Zilsel-Kreis

    • Tim Lethen
    Pages 25-28

  6. Das Protokoll-Buch

    • Tim Lethen
    Pages 29-81

  7. Weitere Protokolle

    • Tim Lethen
    Pages 83-92

  8. Die Vortragsreihe des Psychologischen Instituts

    • Tim Lethen
    Pages 93-110

  9. Weitere Vorträge

    • Tim Lethen
    Pages 111-116

  10. Parapsychologie und Dämonologie

    • Tim Lethen
    Pages 117-125

  11. Back Matter

    Pages 127-130
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About this book

This book provides detailed transcriptions of two notebooks written by Kurt Gödel in Vienna in 1937/38 in the nearly forgotten Gabelsberger shorthand system. The first of these notebooks, simply entitled as the Protokoll-book, contains notes on conversations Gödel had with people like Rudolf Carnap, Rose Rand, Friedrich Waismann, Else Frenkel-Brunswik, and many others who were—at least to some degree—connected to the Vienna Circle. It also covers detailed descriptions of the regular meetings organized by Edgar Zilsel. The second notebook includes notes on a series of lectures given at the Vienna Psychological Institute, which was led by Karl Bühler at the time. Both notebooks are part of Gödel’s huge Nachlass kept at the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton, which consists of literally thousands of stenographic pages covering logic and the foundations of mathematics, philosophy, physics, and theology. The now transcribed and commented notes reveal a very personal side of Gödel which has—to a large extent—been unknown to a mainly scientific-oriented audience. The book is of interest to people wanting to learn about Gödel’s personal background in Vienna in the late 1930s as well as his keen interest in philosophy, psychology, and parapsychology.

Authors and Affiliations

  • Department of Philosophy, University of Helsinki, Helsinki, Finland

    Tim Lethen

About the author

Tim Lethen teaches mathematics and computer science at a German Gymnasium and lectures didactics of computer science at the Universität des Saarlands in Saarbrücken, Germany. As part of the Godeliana-Project, led by Jan von Plato at the University of Helsinki, Finland, Tim has read and transcribed many of Gödel’s private and scientific Gabelsberger shorthand notes, including notes on logic and the foundations of mathematics, quantum mechanics, and philosophy. Tim’s interest in Gödel’s ontological proof for the existence of God, a hitherto undiscovered version of which he published in 2019, led him to the investigation of Gödel’s theological and biblical studies, which—until very recently—have been lying untouched in Gödel’s Nachlass in Princeton.

Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: Gespräche, Vorträge, Séancen: Kurt Gödels Wiener Protokolle 1937/38

  • Book Subtitle: Transkriptionen und Kommentare

  • Authors: Tim Lethen

  • Series Title: Veröffentlichungen des Instituts Wiener Kreis

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-67606-3

  • Publisher: Springer Cham

  • eBook Packages: Social Science and Law (German Language)

  • Copyright Information: Der/die Herausgeber bzw. der/die Autor(en), exklusiv lizenziert durch Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2021

  • Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-030-67605-6Published: 26 May 2021

  • eBook ISBN: 978-3-030-67606-3Published: 25 May 2021

  • Series ISSN: 2363-5118

  • Series E-ISSN: 2363-5126

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: XV, 130

  • Number of Illustrations: 15 b/w illustrations

  • Topics: History of Philosophy, History of Science

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