PHIL 4420 - Computability and Logic
Typical Schedule of Topics
Part I - Computability
Date | Topic |
Week 1 | Enumerability |
Week 2 | Turing Machines: Computability and uncomputability |
Week 3 | Abacus Machines and Abacus Computability |
Week 4 | Recursive Functions |
Week 5 | Equivalence of the different systems |
Week 6 | Universal Turing Machines |
Part II - Logic
Week 7 | First-Order Logic: Recap and Formal Semantics |
Week 8 | First-Order Logic is Undecidable |
Week 9 | First-Order Logic: Models |
Week 10 | First-Order Logic is Complete |
Part III - Computability and Logic
Date | Topic |
Week 11 | Arithmetization |
Week 12 | Definability |
Week 13 | Representability |
Week 14 | Godel's Incompleteness Theorem |
Week 15 | Philosophical Implications of Godel's Incompleteness Theorem |