PETER PAUL FEKETE

The picture to the left is not a self-portrait - it is a portrait of a model called Geza.

I am an artist and philosopher.

I took down my website and moved most of my philosophical material to another place, but as of today (22 October 2019) I am informed that there are sixty-six mentions of my name in recent academic articles, ten more than last week, forty more than a month ago.  It seems that something that I wrote has excited a debate.

As there appears to be some interest in what I formerly wrote, I have decided for the time being to reinstate my former website:

PETER FEKETE - AN ESSAY ON PHILOSOPHY, ART, LOVE AND MATHEMATICS.

I cannot guarantee that all the links are still working.  Regardless, if you are interested, whoever you are, please feel free to get in touch. (CONTACT FORM BELOW.)

I will add something about what this may be about.  Firstly, my academic publications are very few. 

1. I collaborated in an essay on the so-called Yablo's paradox with a friend, Ferenc Andras.  This may be downloaded from academica.edu.  It is a good piece of work, but the ideas are principally those of Ferenc.  It states that Yablo's paradox is not a paradox but simply an inconsistent set of statements.  It is a work in first-order logic. 

2. I am cited by Koen Leverer in his PhD dissertation, Using Logical Interpretation and Definitional Equivalence to compare Classical Kinematics and Special Relativity Theory.

3. Dr. Gabor Etesi of the Budapest Technical University told me he cited me in a paper written in Hungarian on the problem of the continuum.  However, I have not seen this paper.

The first two citations reflect my willingness to help my friends in their work, even in first-order logic, in which I claim expertise, although have no personal research interest in it.  The third paper, if correct, would come very close to my primary concerns, among which is the investigation of mathematical inferences that demonstrate the transcendence of the human mind over any mechanism.  I claim to have solved the continuum problem and to be able to demonstrate in second-order logic and natural language the validity of the continuum hypothesis, subject to certain conditions.  That paper is not an easy read (by all accounts) but the central point is that analysis (the mathematics of the continuum) requires not one but two primitives - points and extensions - and hence that set theory is not a possible candidate for a complete language of the continuum.

I have many research interests and the published and cited works under my own name are only a fragment of all that I have studied and written upon.  If you want to know more, then contact me.

As regards the sixty-six "mentions" of my name, it is not likely that these are to do with the Yablo paper or the work on first-order theory of special relativity.  It is more likely that they are concerned with my other arguments relating to the transcendence of the human mind.

I anticipate great hostility to these ideas, since they fly in the face of the by-now overwhelming academic consensus in favor of purely mechanistic explanation.

I am not accepting annoymous comments.  If you wish to contact me, send me your name and email address, and I'll get back to you.