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Minds, Machines and Godel : A Reply to Mr Lucas

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  25 February 2009

Whiteley C. H.
Whiteley C. H.
Affiliation:
University of Birmingham.
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In Philosophy for April 1961 Mr J. R. Lucas argues that Gödel's theorem proves that Mechanism is false. I wish to dispute this view, not because I maintain that Mechanism is true, but because I do not believe that this issue is to be settled by what looks rather like a kind of logical conjuring-trick. In my discussion I take for granted Lucas's account of Gödel's procedure, which I am not competent to criticise.

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Discussion
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Philosophy , Volume 37 , Issue 139 , January 1962 , pp. 61 - 62
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Copyright © The Royal Institute of Philosophy 1962

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