Professor Rebecca Goldstein - Gödel's Incompleteness Theorems in the Context of Philosophy

Rebecca Goldstein's first lecture in a series of four addresses Gödel's Incompleteness Theorems.
The philosophical implications of mathematics and its beautiful relationship with philosophy are discussed. Professor Goldstein examines epistemological questions, the blurred borders between maths and philosophy, the significance of the very private friendship between Gödel and Einstein, and the somewhat confusing nature of paradoxes in this truly illuminating lecture.
The debate between formalism and realism clearly remains heated and intriguing, and Professor Goldstein leaves us with an acute awareness of the major significance of the Incompleteness Theorems; which affect us all.
Your own intuition is the means by which you will discover the truth behind Gödel's work... or is it?
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