: Miroslaw Szatkowski
: Ontological Proofs Today
: Walter de Gruyter GmbH& Co.KG
: 9783110325881
: Philosophische Analyse / Philosophical AnalysisISSN
: 1
: CHF 205.10
:
: 20. und 21. Jahrhundert
: English
: 520
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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.
CONTENTS5
Acknowledgements9
Authors of Contributed Papers11
Part I. Introduction19
1. Guided Tour of the Book: Ontological Proofs Today21
Part II. Interpretation of Old Ontological Proofs. God’s Attributes69
2. Ratio Anselmi71
3. Two Ontological Arguments for the Existence of an Omniscient Being79
4. A Modal Theistic Argument91
5. A Debate on God: Anselm, Aquinas and Scotus115
6. Three Versions of the Ontological Argument145
Part III. New Ontological Proofs165
7. More Modest Ontological Argument167
8. A New Modal Version of the Ontological Argument181
9. A Cosmo-Ontological Argument for the Existence of a First Cause - perhaps God195
10. A Gödelian Ontological Argument Improved Even More205
Part IV. Semantics for Ontological Proofs215
11. Logic of Existence, Ontological Frames, Leibniz’s and Gödel’s Ontological Proofs217
12. Fully Free Semantics for Anderson-like Ontological Proofs245
Part V. Ontological Proofs and Kinds of Necessity295
13. Conceptual Modality and Ontological Argument297
14. Does the Kind of Necessity which Is Represented by S5 Capture a Theologically Defensible Notion of a Necessary Being?311
15. Modal Collapse in Gödel’s Ontological Proof325
16. What Kind of Necessary Being Could God Be?347
Part VI. Ontological Proofs and Formal Ontology367
17. On Grim’s Cantorian Anti-Ontological Argument369
18. Concepts of Proof and Formalized Arguments ex gradibus perfectionis381
19. Onto/Logical Melioration393
20. Doomed to Fail: The Sad Epistemological Fate of Ontological Arguments415
21. The Premises of Anselm’s Argument425
Part VII. Debate Maydole-Oppy445
22. Maydole on Ontological Arguments447
23. Ontological Arguments Redux471
24. Response to Maydole489
25. Reply to Oppy’s Response to ”Ontological Redux”503
Author Index513
Subject Index517