13. Conceptual Modality and Ontological Argument

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1. Frontmatter i
2. CONTENTS vi
3. Acknowledgements 7
4. Authors of Contributed Papers 9
5. Part I. Introduction
6. 1. Guided Tour of the Book: Ontological Proofs Today 19
7. Part II. Interpretation of Old Ontological Proofs. God’s Attributes
8. 2. Ratio Anselmi 69
9. 3. Two Ontological Arguments for the Existence of an Omniscient Being 77
10. 4. A Modal Theistic Argument 89
11. 5. A Debate on God: Anselm, Aquinas and Scotus 113
12. 6. Three Versions of the Ontological Argument 143
13. Part III. New Ontological Proofs
14. 7. More Modest Ontological Argument 165
15. 8. A New Modal Version of the Ontological Argument 179
16. 9. A Cosmo-Ontological Argument for the Existence of a First Cause - perhaps God 193
17. 10. A Gödelian Ontological Argument Improved Even More 203
18. Part IV. Semantics for Ontological Proofs
19. 11. Logic of Existence, Ontological Frames, Leibniz’s and Gödel’s Ontological Proofs 215
20. 12. Fully Free Semantics for Anderson-like Ontological Proofs 243
21. Part V. Ontological Proofs and Kinds of Necessity
22. 13. Conceptual Modality and Ontological Argument 295
23. 14. Does the Kind of Necessity which Is Represented by S5 Capture a Theologically Defensible Notion of a Necessary Being? 309
24. 15. Modal Collapse in Gödel’s Ontological Proof 323
25. 16. What Kind of Necessary Being Could God Be? 345
26. Part VI. Ontological Proofs and Formal Ontology
27. 17. On Grim’s Cantorian Anti-Ontological Argument 367
28. 18. Concepts of Proof and Formalized Arguments ex gradibus perfectionis 379
29. 19. Onto/Logical Melioration 391
30. 20. Doomed to Fail: The Sad Epistemological Fate of Ontological Arguments 413
31. 21. The Premises of Anselm’s Argument 423
32. Part VII. Debate Maydole-Oppy
33. 22. Maydole on Ontological Arguments 445
34. 23. Ontological Arguments Redux 469
35. 24. Response to Maydole 487
36. 25. Reply to Oppy’s Response to ”Ontological Redux” 501
37. Author Index 511
38. Subject Index 515