PHIL30043: The Power and Limits of Logic

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PHIL30043: The Power and Limits of Logic (or, as I like to call it, Kurt Gödel’s Greatest Hits) is a University of Melbourne undergraduate subject. It covers the metatheory of classical first order predicate logic, beginning at the Soundness and Completeness Theorems, Compactness, Cantor’s Theorem, the Downward Löwenheim–Skolem Theorem, Recursive Functions, Register Machines, Representability, the Indefinability of Truth and the Undecidability of Predicate Logic, and ending up at Gödel’s Incompleteness Theorems and Löb’s Theorem.

Kurt Godel, seated
Kurt Gödel, seated

The subject is taught to University of Melbourne undergraduate students (for Arts students as a part of the Philosophy major, for non-Arts students, as a breadth subject). Details for enrolment are here.

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