HUSSERL AND GODEL'S INCOMPLETENESS THEOREMS

The paper examines Husserl's interactions with logicians in the 1930s in order to assess Husserl's awareness of Godel's incompleteness theorems. While there is no mention about the results in Husserl's known exchanges with Hilbert, Weyl, or Zermelo, the most likely source about them for Husserl is Felix Kaufmann (1895-1949). Husserl's interactions with Kaufmann show that Husserl may have learned about the results from him, but not necessarily so. Ultimately Husserl's reading marks on Friedrich Waismann's Einfuhrung in das mathematische Denken: die Begriffsbildung der modernen Mathematik, 1936, show that he knew about them before his death in 1938.