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    A World Without Time: The Forgotten Legacy of Gã¶Del and Einstein.Palle Yourgrau - 2004 - Basic Books.
    It is a widely known but little considered fact that Albert Einstein and Kurt Gödel were best friends for the last decade and a half of Einstein's life. The two walked home together from Princeton's Institute for Advanced Study every day; they shared ideas about physics, philosophy, politics, and the lost world of German science in which they had grown up. By 1949, Gödel had produced a remarkable proof: In any universe described by the Theory of Relativity, time cannot exist (...)
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    Gã¶Del Meets Einstein: Time Travel in the Gã¶Del Universe.Palle Yourgrau - 1999 - Open Court.
    This is an expansion of the author's 1991 work which investigates the implications of Gödel's writings on Einstein's theory of relativity as they relate to the fundamental questions of the nature of time and the possibilities for time travel.
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    The disappearance of time: Kurt Gödel and the idealistic tradition in philosophy.Palle Yourgrau - 1991 - New York: Cambridge University Press.
    This is a book about the philosophy of time, and in particular the philosophy of the great logician Kurt Godel (1906-1978). It evaluates Godel's attempt to show that Einstein has not so much explained time as explained it away. Unlike recent more technical studies, it focuses on the reality of time. The book explores Godel's conception of time, existence, and truth with special reference to Plato, Aristotle, Kant, and Frege. In the light of this investigation an attempt is made to (...)
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  4. The dead.Palle Yourgrau - 1987 - Journal of Philosophy 84 (2):84-101.
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    Death and Nonexistence.Palle Yourgrau - 2019 - New York: Oxford University Press.
    The dead are gone. They count for nothing. Yet, if we count the dead, their number is staggering. And they account for most of what is great about civilization. Compared to the greatness of the dead, the accomplishments of the living are paltry. Which is it then: are the dead still there tobe counted or not? And if they are still there, where exactly is "there"? We are confronted with the ancient paradox of nonexistence bequeathed us by Parmenides. The mystery (...)
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    Demonstratives.Palle Yourgrau (ed.) - 1990 - New York: Oxford University Press.
    The aim of this series is to bring together important recent writings in major areas of philosophical inquiry, selected from a variety of sources, mostly periodicals.
  7. Knowledge and relevant alternatives.Palle Yourgrau - 1983 - Synthese 55 (2):175 - 190.
    Traditionally, skeptics as well as their opponents have agreed that in order to know that p one must be able, by some preferred means, to rule out all the alternatives to p. Recently, however, some philosophers have attempted to avert skepticism not (merely) by weakening the preferred means but rather by articulating a subset of the alternatives to p — the so-called relevant alternatives — and insisting that knowledge that p requires only that we be able (by the preferred means) (...)
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    Review Essay: Reflections on Kurt GodelReflections on Kurt Godel.Palle Yourgrau & Hao Wang - 1989 - Philosophy and Phenomenological Research 50 (2):391.
  9. Can the dead really be buried?Palle Yourgrau - 2000 - Midwest Studies in Philosophy 24 (1):46–68.
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  10. Lost knowledge.Fred Dretske & Palle Yourgrau - 1983 - Journal of Philosophy 80 (6):356-367.
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  11. Demonstratives.Palle Yourgrau, David F. Austin & Stephen Neale - 1994 - Philosophy and Phenomenological Research 54 (4):947-963.
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    Frege on truth and reference.Palle Yourgrau - 1987 - Notre Dame Journal of Formal Logic 28 (1):132-138.
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    (1 other version)Cogitations.Palle Yourgrau - 1988 - Journal of Philosophy 85 (9):500-505.
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    Frege, Perry, and Demonstratives.Palle Yourgrau - 1982 - Canadian Journal of Philosophy 12 (4):725 - 752.
    'You ask me about the idiosyncrasies of philosophers? There is their lack of historical sense, their hatred of even the idea of becoming, their Egyptianism. They think they are doing a thing honour when they dehistoricize it, sub specie aeternitatis — when they make a mummy of it.'Nietzsche, Twilight of the Idols.
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    XI*—The Path Back to Frege.Palle Yourgrau - 1987 - Proceedings of the Aristotelian Society 87 (1):169-210.
    Palle Yourgrau; XI*—The Path Back to Frege, Proceedings of the Aristotelian Society, Volume 87, Issue 1, 1 June 1987, Pages 169–210, https://doi.org/10.1093/ari.
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  16. On time and actuality: The dilemma of privileged position.Palle Yourgrau - 1986 - British Journal for the Philosophy of Science 37 (4):405-417.
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    Sets, Aggregates, and Numbers.Palle Yourgrau - 1985 - Canadian Journal of Philosophy 15 (4):581 - 592.
    Frege's definition of the natural number n in terms of the set of n-membered sets has been treated rudely by history. It has suffered not one but two crippling blows. The discovery of Russell's Paradox revealed a fatal flaw in the ‘naive’ conception of set. In spite of its intuitive appeal, Frege's Basic Law V turned out to be impermissible, leaving us only with the etiolated concept of set that survives in the axiomatic treatments initiated by Zermelo. The independence results, (...)
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    What is Frege's Relativity Argument?Palle Yourgrau - 1997 - Canadian Journal of Philosophy 27 (2):137-172.
    Sets are multitudes which are also unities. It is surprising that the fact that multitudes are also unities leads to no contradictions: this is the main fact of mathematics.Kurt Gödel (Hao Wang,A Logical Journey: From Gödel to Philosophy)In what sense can something be at the same time one and many? The problem is familiar since Plato (for example,Republic524e). In recent times, Whitehead and Russell, inPrincipia Mathematica,have been struck by the difficulty of the problem: ‘If there is such an object as (...)
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  19. Russell and Kaplan on denoting.Palle Yourgrau - 1985 - Philosophy and Phenomenological Research 46 (2):315-321.
    DAVID KAPLAN HAS ARGUED THAT RUSSELL'S THEORY OF\nDESCRIPTIONS IN EFFECT EXPLAINS AWAY THE VERY IDEA OF\nDEMOTING. IN THIS PAPER I TRY TO SHINE SOME LIGHT ON THE\nPUZZLE KAPLAN HAS UNCOVERED, AND IN THE PROCESS SHOW THAT\n1) RUSSELL DID NOT HIMSELF FULLY REALIZE EXACTLY WHAT HIS\nTHEORY ACCOMPLISHED, AND 2) IN EFFECT, RUSSELL'S THEORY IS,\nSURPRISINGLY, A KIND OF DEFINITIONAL VARIANT OF FREGE'S.
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    On the Logic of Indeterminist Time.Palle Yourgrau - 1985 - Journal of Philosophy 82 (10):548.
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    Proof vs Provability: On Brouwer’s Time Problem.Palle Yourgrau - 2020 - History and Philosophy of Logic 41 (2):140-153.
    Is a mathematical theorem proved because provable, or provable because proved? If Brouwer’s intuitionism is accepted, we’re committed, it seems, to the latter, which is highly problematic. Or so I will argue. This and other consequences of Brouwer’s attempt to found mathematics on the intuition of a move of time have heretofore been insufficiently appreciated. Whereas the mathematical anomalies of intuitionism have received enormous attention, too little time, I’ll try to show, has been devoted to some of the temporal anomalies (...)
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  22. Chaitin interview for simply gödel website.Palle Yourgrau - unknown
    Gödel's first incompleteness theorem shows that no axiomatic theory can prove all mathematical truths, while Gödel's second incompleteness theorem shows that a specific mathematical result is unprovable. A famous mathematician of the time, David Hilbert, had asked for a proof that an important axiomatic theory was consistent, and Godel showed that such a proof could not be carried out within the axiomatic theory itself, and presumably could therefore not be established in a convincing way outside of the theory either.
     
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  23. 1. Rashi's view.David Spring, Timothy Williamson & Palle Yourgrau - 2006 - Oxford Studies in Metaphysics 2:111.
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    A Companion to the Philosophy of Language.Palle Yourgrau - 1999 - International Philosophical Quarterly 39 (1):98-100.
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    Comments on “Did Godel Surprise Einstein with a Rotating Universe and Time Travel?” by Giora Hon.Palle Yourgrau - 1998 - Foundations of Physics 28 (11):1719-1727.
    A comparison of a recent paper by Giora Hon in this journal with a book I wrote several years ago, on Gödel's philosophy of time, reveals that the substance, and indeed many of the words themselves, appearing in Hon's essay are in fact original to my book—the ideas of which he sadly failed to understand.
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    Gödel’s Temporal Idealism: A Reply to Prof. Kahle.Palle Yourgrau - 2023 - In Oliver Passon, Christoph Benzmüller & Brigitte Falkenburg (eds.), On Gödel and the Nonexistence of Time – Gödel und die Nichtexistenz der Zeit: Kurt Gödel essay competition 2021 – Kurt-Gödel-Preis 2021. Springer Berlin Heidelberg. pp. 37-50.
    In his Kurt Gödel Award 2021 essay, “The Philosophical Meaning of the Gödel Universe,” Prof. Kahle takes a fresh look at the philosophical ramifications of Gödel’s cosmology and helps clarify what Gödel’s intentions were and what the significance is of his arguments. I have several reservations, however, concerning Kahle’s discussion which will be discussed in this essay.
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  27. Information retrieval and cognitive accessibility.Palle Yourgrau - 1987 - Synthese 70 (February):229-246.
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    8. The Dead.Palle Yourgrau - 1993 - In John Martin Fischer (ed.), The Metaphysics of death. Stanford, Calif.: Stanford University Press. pp. 135-156.
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  29. Weil meets Wittgenstein.Palle Yourgrau - 2023 - In Jack Manzi (ed.), Between Wittgenstein and Weil Comparisons in Philosophy, Religion, and Ethics. New York, NY: Routledge.
     
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