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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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De Gruyter,
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| Publisher Address: | Berlin/Boston : |
| Publication Dates: |
[2012] ©2012 |
| Literature type: | eBook |
| Language: | English |
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Philosophische analyse / philosophical analysis;
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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, is the fact that they all treat of the omniscience or the omnipotence of God. Part III includes papers which introduce new ontological arguments for the existence of God, without referring to omniscience and omnipotence as the transparent attributes of God. The issue of the type of necessity with which ontological proofs work or may work is raised in the articles of Part IV. In Part V the semantics for some ontological proofs are defined. Part VI consists of papers which, although quite different from each other in terms of content, all explore some ontological issues, and formal ontology may be considered the link between them. Part VII comprises two articles, by R. E. Maydole and G. Oppy, mutually controversial and different in their assessment of some ontological proofs. |
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1 online resource (520 pages) : illustrations. Also available in print edition. |
| ISBN: | 9783110325881 |
| Index Number: | B3245 |
| CLC: | B516.54 |
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Frontmatter -- CONTENTS -- Acknowledgements -- Authors of Contributed Papers -- 1. Guided Tour of the Book: Ontological Proofs Today / 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 / 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 G delian Ontological Argument Improved Even More / 11. Logic of Existence, Ontological Frames, Leibniz s and G del s Ontological Proofs / 12. Fully Free Semantics for Anderson-like Ontological Proofs / 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 G del s Ontological Proof / 16. What Kind of Necessary Being Could God Be? / 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 / 22. Maydole on Ontological Arguments / 23. Ontological Arguments Redux / 24. Response to Maydole / 25. Reply to Oppy s Response to "Ontological Redux" / |