Ontological Arguments

An accessible and comprehensive examination of ontological arguments, their history and their importance.

List of contents

Introduction: ontological arguments in focus Graham Oppy; 1. Anselm Peter Millican; 2. Aquinas Brian Leftow; 3. Descartes Lawrence Nolan; 4. Leibniz Maria Rosa Antognazza; 5. Kant Lawrence Pasternack; 6. Hegel Michael Inwood; 7. Gödel Alexander Pruss; 8. Lewis Michael J. Almeida; 9. Plantinga Joshua Rasmussen; 10. Tichý Graham Oddie; 11. Conceivability and possibility Joshua Spencer; 12. Begging the question Peter van Inwagen; 13. Existence Graham Priest.

About the author

Graham Oppy is Professor of Philosophy at Monash University, Victoria, and is a Fellow of the Australian Academy of Humanities. He has published a number of books, most recently Reinventing Philosophy of Religion (2014), Describing Gods (Cambridge, 2014), Naturalism and Religion (2018) and, co-authored with Nick Trakakis, Interreligious Philosophical Dialogues (2017).

Summary

This volume provides a comprehensive discussion of ontological arguments, one of the main classes of arguments for the existence of God. Its chapters show clearly how these arguments emerged and developed, how we should think about them, and why they remain important today.

Product details

• Authors: Graham Oppy, Graham (Monash University Oppy
• Assisted by: Graham Oppy (Editor), Graham (Monash University Oppy (Editor), Oppy Graham (Editor)
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 31.10.2018
• EAN: 9781107559127
• ISBN: 978-1-107-55912-7
• No. of pages: 294
• Series: Classic Philosophical Arguments; Classic Philosophical Argument; Classic Philosophical Arguments; Classic Philosophical Argument
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Philosophy > General, dictionaries; Non-fiction book > Philosophy, religion > Philosophy: general, reference works; PHILOSOPHY / Epistemology, Philosophy: metaphysics & ontology, Philosophy: metaphysics and ontology