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Wainwright, William J.
Distinguished Professor of Philosophy, University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee
Print publication date: 2005 (this edition)
Published to Oxford Scholarship Online: April 2005 Print ISBN-13: 978-0-19-513809-2 doi:10.1093/0195138090.003.0005 |
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This chapter presents and critically discusses the main historical variants of the “ontological argument,” a form of a priori argument for the existence of God pioneered by Anselm of Canterbury. I assess the contributions of Anselm, Descartes, Leibniz, and Gödel, and criticisms by Gaunilo, Kant, and Oppy among others.
Keywords: Anselm, a priori arguments, arguments for the existence of God, Descartes, existence of God, Gaunilo, Gödel, Kant, Leibniz, ontological argument, Oppy,
doi:10.1093/0195138090.003.0005
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4 THE ONTOLOGICAL ARGUMENT
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