Shanker, S. G. (ed.) Gödel’s theorem in focus. Reprint of the 1988 orig. (English) Zbl 0763.03002 Philosophers in Focus Series. London: Routledge,. x, 261 p. (1991). The book, a collection of (mostly) previously published papers, is intended to serve mainly philosophically interested readers as a survey of essential aspects connected with Gödel’s incompleteness theorems.After a short biographical sketch by J. W. Dawson jun. (pp. 1-16) [Math. Intell. 6, No. 4, 9-17 (1984; Zbl 0575.01009)] and an English translation (by J. van Heijenoort) of K. Gödel’s original paper (pp. 17-47) [Monatsh. Math. 38, 173-198 (1931; Zbl 0002.00101)], one finds a survey of Gödel’s work by S. C. Kleene (pp. 48-73) [J. Symb. Logic 41, 761-778 (1976; Zbl 0366.02001)], an overview of the reception of the incompleteness results by J. W. Dawson jun. (pp. 74-95) [Philos. Sci. Assoc., Vol. 2 (1984)], and an essay by S. Feferman (“Kurt Gödel: Conviction and caution”, pp. 96-114) [Philos. Natur. 21, 546-562 (1984)] on some of Gödel’s philosophical positions.In the three final papers philosophical aspects of Gödel’s incompleteness results are discussed: the seriousness of the sceptical problem by M. D. Resnik (pp. 115-130) [J. Philos. Logic 3, 133-147 (1974; Zbl 0278.02008)], relations to Hilbert’s Programme by M. Detlefsen (pp. 131-154) [J. Philos. Logic 8, 297-313 (1979; Zbl 0405.03003)], an Wittgenstein’s way of resolving by dissolving a claimed crisis by S. G. Shanker (“Wittgenstein’s remarks on the significance of Gödel’s theorem”, pp. 155-256) [previously unpublished]. Reviewer: S.Gottwald (Leipzig) Cited in 1 ReviewCited in 2 Documents MSC: 03-01 Introductory exposition (textbooks, tutorial papers, etc.) pertaining to mathematical logic and foundations 00B60 Collections of reprinted articles 03A05 Philosophical and critical aspects of logic and foundations 00A30 Philosophy of mathematics 01A60 History of mathematics in the 20th century 01A70 Biographies, obituaries, personalia, bibliographies 03-03 History of mathematical logic and foundations Keywords:Gödel’s theorem; Gödel; consistency proofs; Gödel’s incompleteness theorems Citations:Zbl 0575.01009; Zbl 0002.00101; Zbl 0366.02001; Zbl 0278.02008; Zbl 0405.03003 PDFBibTeX XMLCite \textit{S. G. Shanker} (ed.), Gödel's theorem in focus. Reprint of the 1988 orig. London: Routledge (1991; Zbl 0763.03002)