Turing and Wittgenstein: Opponent or Ally? A New Interpretation of Wittgenstein’s 1939 Cambridge Lectures on the Foundations of Mathematics Vrije Universiteit Brussel
and of AI. Ludwig Wittgenstein is generally recognized as one of the
most influential philosophers of the 20th Century. The most intriguing
interaction between Turing and Wittgenstein was Turing’s attendance
at Wittgenstein’s lectures on the Foundations of Mathematics in
1939. Detailed notes of Wittgenstein’s 1939 lectures survive, and
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