Introduction

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These notes are the results of conversations between Alexander Kurz, a mathematician, and Johanna Speiser, an undergraduate philosophy student. The written order does not reflect how these conversations developed. One may say that these notes are only a frozen picture. Their main purpose is to remind the authors of the work we have done and to help motivating us to continue in the future.

Most chapters are empty at the moment because we either didn’t start yet or the current notes are too sketchy to put them here.

One aim of our efforts is to cover the mathematical background needed to understand some of the articles in the Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy such as …

In the background of our discussions has always been Goedel, Escher, Bach, which influenced our thinking in more ways that we can tell.

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