Ontological Proofs Today /

Ontological Proofs Today / / ed. by Miroslaw Szatkowski.

The book Ontological Proofs Today, apart from the introduction, consists of six parts. Part II comprises papers each of which pertains either to historical ontological arguments, or to some other, rather new, ontological arguments, but what makes them stand out from the other papers in this volume,...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter DGBA Backlist Complete English Language 2000-2014 PART1
MitwirkendeR:
Anderson, Anthony C.,
Gale, Richard M.,
Galvan, Sergio,
Gerogiorgakis, Stamatios,
Hiltscher, Reinhard,
Kovač, Srećko,
Lowe, E. J.,
Maydole, Robert E.,
Megill, Jason L.,
Meixner, Uwe,
Nieznański, Edward,
Oppy, Graham,
Perzanowski, Jerzy,
Pruss, Alexander R.,
Reagor, Amy,
Swinburne, Richard,
Szatkowski, Mirosław,
Tkaczyk, Marcin,
Turri, John,
Weingartner, Paul,
van Inwagen, Peter,
HerausgeberIn:
Szatkowski, Miroslaw,
Place / Publishing House:Berlin ;, Boston : : De Gruyter, , [2013]
©2012
Year of Publication:2013
Language:English
Series:Philosophische Analyse / Philosophical Analysis , 50
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Physical Description:1 online resource (520 p.)
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • CONTENTS
  • Acknowledgements
  • Authors of Contributed Papers
  • Part I. Introduction
  • 1. Guided Tour of the Book: Ontological Proofs Today
  • Part II. Interpretation of Old Ontological Proofs. God’s Attributes
  • 2. Ratio Anselmi
  • 3. Two Ontological Arguments for the Existence of an Omniscient Being
  • 4. A Modal Theistic Argument
  • 5. A Debate on God: Anselm, Aquinas and Scotus
  • 6. Three Versions of the Ontological Argument
  • Part III. New Ontological Proofs
  • 7. More Modest Ontological Argument
  • 8. A New Modal Version of the Ontological Argument
  • 9. A Cosmo-Ontological Argument for the Existence of a First Cause - perhaps God
  • 10. A Gödelian Ontological Argument Improved Even More
  • Part IV. Semantics for Ontological Proofs
  • 11. Logic of Existence, Ontological Frames, Leibniz’s and Gödel’s Ontological Proofs
  • 12. Fully Free Semantics for Anderson-like Ontological Proofs
  • Part V. Ontological Proofs and Kinds of Necessity
  • 13. Conceptual Modality and Ontological Argument
  • 14. Does the Kind of Necessity which Is Represented by S5 Capture a Theologically Defensible Notion of a Necessary Being?
  • 15. Modal Collapse in Gödel’s Ontological Proof
  • 16. What Kind of Necessary Being Could God Be?
  • Part VI. Ontological Proofs and Formal Ontology
  • 17. On Grim’s Cantorian Anti-Ontological Argument
  • 18. Concepts of Proof and Formalized Arguments ex gradibus perfectionis
  • 19. Onto/Logical Melioration
  • 20. Doomed to Fail: The Sad Epistemological Fate of Ontological Arguments
  • 21. The Premises of Anselm’s Argument
  • Part VII. Debate Maydole-Oppy
  • 22. Maydole on Ontological Arguments
  • 23. Ontological Arguments Redux
  • 24. Response to Maydole
  • 25. Reply to Oppy’s Response to ”Ontological Redux”
  • Author Index
  • Subject Index

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