PHL309 Logic, Language, and Thought Professor: Craig DeLancey
Office: Piez Hall 225
Email: delancey@oswego.edu

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Some secondary materials
Here are some things that can be helpful to read.

Some entries in the Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy:

• Set Theory and the early development of set theory.
  
• Russells's Paradox
  
• On Frege (this one is tough in parts, you might jump around)
  
• Hilbert's Program.
  
• Bertrand Russell.
  
• Principia Mathematica.
  
• Kurt Godel.
  

Books that can be of interest:

• Any of Gregory Chaitin's popular books. He used to post them all on his web site. Now he doesn't, but this book, Exploring Randomness is available.
• Some of you may be interested in Penrose's arguments in the early chapters of The Emperor's New Mind which is in Penfield at Q335 .P415 1989.
• Andrew Hodge's biography of Turing's is a fine book. Penfield: QA29.T8 H63 1983.
• Raymond Smullyan has puzzle books that in a playful way aim to illustrate problems of incompleteness and consistency and self reference. In Penfield see: Forever undecided, QA9.65 .S68 1987; What is the name of this book?, GV1493 .S63 1986; To mock a mocking bird and other logic puzzles, GV1507.P43 S68 1985; 5000 B.C. and other philosophical fantasies, B68 .S65 1983I; The lady or the tiger?, GV1493 .S626 1982; This book needs no title, PN6361 .S6 1980.
• Wittgenstein's Remarks on the Foundations of Mathematics is in our library, at QA9.W743. Useful if you are interested in the question of conventionalism.