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

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