When I was in NZ, I gave a talk at four universities on the prospects for a squeezing argument to prove Church's Thesis. But in fact half of the talk had to be about the very idea of a squeezing argument (as I discovered early on that almost no one had heard of Kreisel's paradigm example). Kreisel's star has perhaps rather fallen of late — and the Hintikka vol. in the Oxford Readings in Philosophy which reprinted his 'Informal rigour and completeness proofs' is long out of print and off...
Published on May 09, 2010 09:03