The Bernays-Müller Debate

Günther Eder

The Bernays-Müller Debate

Department of Philosophy

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Abstract

The Bernays-Müller debate was a dispute in the early 1920s between Paul Bernays and Aloys Müller regarding various philosophical issues related to “Hilbert’s program.” The debate is sometimes mentioned as a sidenote in discussions of Hilbert’s program, but there is little or no discussion of the debate itself in the secondary literature. This article aims to fill this gap and to provide a detailed analysis of the background of the debate, its contents, and the impact on its protagonists.

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	317-361
Number of pages	45
Journal	HOPOS. The Journal of the International Society for the History of Philosophy of Science
Volume	13
Issue number	2
Publication status	Published - 20 Sept 2023

Austrian Fields of Science 2012

603104 History of philosophy
101010 History of mathematics
603123 History of science

Keywords

Hilbert Program
Paul Bernays
David Hilbert
Aloys Müller
Finitism
Metamathematics

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The Bernays-Müller Debate

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