Szatkowski Ontological Proofs Today

1. Auflage 2013
ISBN: 978-3-11-032588-1
Verlag: De Gruyter
Format: PDF
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E-Book, Englisch, 520 Seiten

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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.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Szatkowski, Miroslaw

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Religionswissenschaft Religionswissenschaft Allgemein Religion & Wissenschaft
• Geisteswissenschaften Philosophie Metaphysik, Ontologie
• Interdisziplinäres Wissenschaften Wissenschaften Interdisziplinär Religion & Wissenschaft

Inhaltsverzeichnis

1;CONTENTS;5
2;Acknowledgements;9
3;Authors of Contributed Papers;11
4;Part I. Introduction;19
4.1;1. Guided Tour of the Book: Ontological Proofs Today;21
5;Part II. Interpretation of Old Ontological Proofs. God’s Attributes;69
5.1;2. Ratio Anselmi;71
5.2;3. Two Ontological Arguments for the Existence of an Omniscient Being;79
5.3;4. A Modal Theistic Argument;91
5.4;5. A Debate on God: Anselm, Aquinas and Scotus;115
5.5;6. Three Versions of the Ontological Argument;145
6;Part III. New Ontological Proofs;165
6.1;7. More Modest Ontological Argument;167
6.2;8. A New Modal Version of the Ontological Argument;181
6.3;9. A Cosmo-Ontological Argument for the Existence of a First Cause - perhaps God;195
6.4;10. A Gödelian Ontological Argument Improved Even More;205
7;Part IV. Semantics for Ontological Proofs;215
7.1;11. Logic of Existence, Ontological Frames, Leibniz’s and Gödel’s Ontological Proofs;217
7.2;12. Fully Free Semantics for Anderson-like Ontological Proofs;245
8;Part V. Ontological Proofs and Kinds of Necessity;295
8.1;13. Conceptual Modality and Ontological Argument;297
8.2;14. Does the Kind of Necessity which Is Represented by S5 Capture a Theologically Defensible Notion of a Necessary Being?;311
8.3;15. Modal Collapse in Gödel’s Ontological Proof;325
8.4;16. What Kind of Necessary Being Could God Be?;347
9;Part VI. Ontological Proofs and Formal Ontology;367
9.1;17. On Grim’s Cantorian Anti-Ontological Argument;369
9.2;18. Concepts of Proof and Formalized Arguments ex gradibus perfectionis;381
9.3;19. Onto/Logical Melioration;393
9.4;20. Doomed to Fail: The Sad Epistemological Fate of Ontological Arguments;415
9.5;21. The Premises of Anselm’s Argument;425
10;Part VII. Debate Maydole-Oppy;445
10.1;22. Maydole on Ontological Arguments;447
10.2;23. Ontological Arguments Redux;471
10.3;24. Response to Maydole;489
10.4;25. Reply to Oppy’s Response to ”Ontological Redux”;503
11;Author Index;513
12;Subject Index;517