The Kurt Gödel Society ( KGS ) is a learned society which was founded in Vienna , Austria in 1987. It is an international organization aimed at promoting research primarily on logic , philosophy and the history of mathematics , with special attention to subjects that are connected with Austrian logician and mathematician Kurt Gödel , in whose honour it was named.
2-583: The group also organizes an ongoing lecture series called Collegium Logicum . Former speakers include Henk Barendregt , George Boolos , Jaakko Hintikka and Wilfrid Hodges . In April 2006, the Gödel society organized Horizons of Truth , an international symposium celebrating the 100th birthday of Kurt Gödel. In 2011 the Gödel society, with support from the John Templeton Foundation , awarded five "Kurt Gödel Centenary Research Prize Fellowships", with
4-482: A total amount of US$ 680,000. The recipients were David Fernández, Pavel Hrubes, Andrey Bovykin, Peter Koellner, and Thierry Coquand. In 2008, the first round of these fellowships was awarded. In 2015, SIGLOG , EATCS , EACSL and the Kurt Gödel Society established the " Alonzo Church Award for Outstanding Contributions to Logic and Computation". This article about a philosophy -related organization
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