Gödel's Incompleteness and the Possibility of Immanent Philosophy: Spinoza, Wittgenstein, and the Strange Loop of Consciousness
Erez Ashkenazi preprint
This paper examines whether Gödel's incompleteness theorems undermine the possibility of constructing an immanent philosophical system-one that is selfgrounding and requires no external foundation. Taking Spinoza's Ethics as the paradigmatic case, the paper distinguishes three levels at which the question can be posed: ontological immanence (Substance as causa sui), epistemic immanence (truth...