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Ontological proofs today [electronic resource] / Miroslaw Szatkowski.

Contributor(s): Series: Philosophische Analyse / Philosophical AnalysisPublication details: Berlin : De Gruyter, 2012.Description: 1 online resource (522 pages)Content type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9783110325881 (electronic bk.)
  • 3110325888 (electronic bk.)
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: Ontological Proofs Today.DDC classification:
  • 193
LOC classification:
  • B3245
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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 God10. 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.
Summary: 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 wh.
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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 God10. 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.

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 wh.

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