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LTT: Nicholas Rescher

1117 Cathedral of Learning 4200 Fifth Ave, Pittsburgh, PA, United States

Did Leibniz Anticipate Gödel’s Incompleteness Proof? Nicholas Rescher, U. of Pittsburgh Abstract: Kurt Gödel felt sure that Leibniz had anticipated his monumental demonstration of the provability-incompleteness of axiomatic arithmetic. The paper seeks to clarify to what extent Gödel’s suspicions were correct.

LTT: Adina Roskies

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What can Neuroimaging do for Psychology? Adina Roskies, Sr. Visiting Fellow Dartmouth University Abstract: The colorful brain maps produced by neuroimaging have captured the popular imagination with the promise of yielding up the secrets of the mind. Some critics claim that the attention is misplaced: neuroimages cannot tell us anything of interest about our psychology. […]