Kurt Gödel Philosopher-Scientist

Most of the essays that are collected in this volume are the outcome of talks
given at the international conference Kurt Gödel Philosopher: From Logic to
Cosmology that was held in Aix-en-Provence (France) in summer 2013. In
addition many of the authors belong to a group of scientists who have
contributed to a project with the same title under the direction of Gabriella
Crocco, to a larger or lesser degree.For this reason the volume represents
more than just a collection of essays on Gödel. It is in fact the product of a
long and enduring international collaboration. There was a group in France
that worked on the transcriptions of the Max Phil and its interpretations. It
consisted of: Mark van Atten, Eric Audureau, Julien Bertrand, Paola Cantù,
Gabriella Crocco, Eva-Maria Engelen, Amélie Mertens and Robin Rollinger. And
then there was a group of experts in Gödel studies and logic to whom the
results of this ongoing research were presented and with whom they were
discussed every now and then. This group consisted of: John W. Dawson Jr. and
Cheryl Dawson, Akihiro Kanamori, Per Martin-Löf, Göran Sundholm and Richard
Tieszen. For the conference the group of experts was enlarged by Eberhard
Knobloch and Massimo Mugnai as authorities on Leibniz – to whom Gödel refers
quite often – and by several Gödel-enthusiasts who gave us great pleasure by
reacting to our call for papers. The transcriptions of notebooks IX, X, XI,
and XII were only made accessible to the experts for their lectures at the
conference even though not all of the transcriptions are yet ready for
circulation or for publication.