Francesco Berto
Autor(a) de There's Something About Gödel
About the Author
Francesco Berto teaches logic, ontology, and philosophy of mathematics at the universities of Aberdeen in Scotland, and Venice and Milan-San Raffaele in Italy. He holds a Chaire dExcellence fellowship at CNRS in Paris, where he has taught ontology at the cole Normale Suprieure, and he is a visiting mostrar mais professor at the Institut Wiener Kreis of the University of Vienna. He has written papers for American Philosophical Quarterly, Dialectica, The Philosophical Quarterly the Australasian Journal of Philosophy, the European Journal of Philosophy, Philosophia Mathematica, and runs the entries Dialetheism and Impossible Worlds in the Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy. His book How to Sell a Contradiction has won the 2007 Castiglioncello prize for the best philosophical book by a young philosopher. mostrar menos
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Conhecimento Comum
- Data de nascimento
- 1973-07-10
- Sexo
- male
- Nacionalidade
- Italy
- Locais de residência
- Venezia, Italy
- Ocupação
- professor
- Pequena biografia
- Dopo aver conseguito una borsa post-dottorale in filosofia teoretica, attualmente insegna Logica all'Università Ca' Foscari di Venezia e all'Università Vita-Salute San Raffaele e Ontologia all'École Normale Supérieure di Parigi. È inoltre membro dell'Istituto di Filosofia della Scienza e della Tecnica della Sorbona.
Nel 2007 ha vinto il Premio Filosofico Castiglioncello, nella sezione giovani, con il libro Teorie dell'assurdo. I rivali del Principio di Non-Contraddizione.
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Estatísticas
- Obras
- 18
- Membros
- 154
- Popularidade
- #135,795
- Avaliação
- 3.7
- Resenhas
- 3
- ISBNs
- 34
- Idiomas
- 1
I've often wondered how professional film critics can figure out how much of their reaction to a movie is due to its intrinsic merits and how much is based on the mood they happened to be in when they saw it. I find myself in an analogous situation as I write this review. I read _Godel, Escher, and Bach_ as a college freshman when it first came out, I've read Franzen's book on Godel, and I've been exposed to Godel's arguments on several other occasions during my career, but reading _There's Something about Godel_ has left me with a much better understanding of the Incompleteness Theorem than I previously had. I don't know for sure how much of this is really due to Berto's skill as a thinker and a writer and how much is due to those past influences finally sinking in, but to counterbalance some of the criticism he's received from others, I'm willing to give him the credit. He impressed me as a very clear writer, being patient without being tedious. (In that last aspect, this book didn't feel at all like a pop math book, a genre which professional mathematicians typically find boring.) Even the chapter on Wittgenstein, which I anticipated hating, was surprisingly tolerable, though I don't think I'm in any danger of becoming a fan of either Wittgenstein or paraconsistent logic.
Two final points:
(1) This is an English translation of an Italian book, and I presume Berto is a native Italian, but the English in this book is just fine--not at all stilted.
(2) Wiley has come out with some books with really ugly printing lately, even uglier than an average print-on-demand book. There's no such problem with this book, though.… (mais)