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- Gaunilo, “On Behalf of the Fool”, in St. Anselm’s Proslogion, M. Charlesworth (ed.), Oxford: OUP, 1965
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- Anderson, C., 1990, “Some Emendations on Gödel’s
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- Anscombe, E., 1993, “Russelm or Anselm”,
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- Antognazza, M., 2018, “Leibniz”, in G. Oppy (ed.), Ontological Arguments, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, pp. 75–98. (Scholar)
- Barnes, J., 1972, The Ontological Argument, London: Macmillan. (Scholar)
- Campbell, R., 1976, From Belief to Understanding, Canberra: ANU Press. (Scholar)
- Chambers, T., 2000, “On Behalf of the Devil: A Parody of St. Anselm Revisited”, Proceedings of the Aristotelian Society (New Series), 100: 93–113. (Scholar)
- Chandler, H., 1993, “Some Ontological Arguments”, Faith and Philosophy, 10: 18–32. (Scholar)
- Charlesworth, M., 1965, Anselm’s Proslogion,
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- Crocker, S., 1972, “The Ontological Significance of
Anselm’s Proslogion”, Modern Schoolman,
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- Diamond, C., 1977, “Riddles and Anselm’s
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- Dombrowski, D., 2006, Rethinking the Ontological Argument: A Neoclassical Theistic Response, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. (Scholar)
- Dummett, M., 1993, “Existence”, in The Seas of
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- Everitt, N., 2004, The Non-Existence of God, London: Blackwell (Scholar)
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- Garcia, L., 2008, “Ontological Arguments for God’s
Existence”, in K. Clark (ed.), Readings in the Philosophy of
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- Gorbacz, P., 2012, “PROVER9’s Simplification Explained
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- Grey, W., 2000, “Gasking’s Proof”,
Analysis, 60: 368–370. (Scholar)
- Haight, D. and Haight, M., 1974, “An Ontological Argument for the Devil”, Monist, 54: 218–20. (Scholar)
- Harrelson, K., 2009, The Ontological Argument from Descartes to Hegel, New York: Humanity Books. (Scholar)
- Hartshorne, C., 1965, Anselm’s Discovery: A
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- Hazen, A., 1999, “On Gödel’s Ontological
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361–377. (Scholar)
- Henle, P., 1961, “Uses of the Ontological Argument”, Philosophical Review, 70: 102–9. (Scholar)
- Hinst, P., 2014, “A Logical Analysis of the Main Argument in
Chapter 2 of the Proslogion by Anselm of Canterbury”,
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- Johnston, M., 1992, “Explanation, Response-Dependence, and
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- Kovacs, S., 2003, “Some Weakened Gödelian Ontological Systems”, Journal of Philosophical Logic, 32: 565–88. (Scholar)
- La Croix, R., 1972, Proslogion II and III: A Third Interpretation of Anselm’s Argument, Leiden: Brill. (Scholar)
- Leftow, B., 2005, “The Ontological Argument”, in The Oxford Handbook of Philosophy of Religion, W. Wainwright (ed.), Oxford: Oxford University Press, pp. 80–115. (Scholar)
- Lewis, D., 1970, “Anselm and Actuality”, Noûs, 4: 175–88. (Scholar)
- Lowe, E., 2007, “The Ontological Argument”, in The
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- Malcolm, N., 1960, “Anselm’s Ontological
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- Mann, W., 1972, “The Ontological Presuppositions of the Ontological Argument”, Review of Metaphysics, 26: 260–77. (Scholar)
- Matthews, G., 2005, “The Ontological Argument”, in The Blackwell Guide to the Philosophy of Religion, W. Mann (ed.), Oxford: Blackwell, pp. 81–102. (Scholar)
- Matthews, G., and Baker, L., 2010 “The Ontological Argument Simplified”, Analysis, 70: 210–212. (Scholar)
- Maydole, R., 2009, “The Ontological Argument”, in The Blackwell Companion to Natural Theology, W. Craig and J. Moreland (ed.), Oxford: Blackwell, pp. 553–592. (Scholar)
- Millican, P., 2004, “The One Fatal Flaw in Anselm’s
Argument”, Mind, 113: 437–76. (Scholar)
- Oppenheimer, P., and Zalta, E., 1991, “On the Logic of the Ontological Argument”, in J. Tomberlin (ed.) Philosophical Perspectives 5: The Philosophy of Religion, Atascadero: Ridgeview, pp. 509–29 [Preprint available online]. (Scholar)
- –––, 2011, “A Computationally-Discovered Simplification of the Ontological Argument”, Australasian Journal of Philosophy, 89: 333–349. (Scholar)
- Oppy, G., 1995, Ontological Arguments and Belief in God, New York: Cambridge University Press. (Scholar)
- –––, 1996, “Gödelian Ontological Arguments”, Analysis, 56: 226–230. (Scholar)
- –––, 2000, “Response to Gettings”, Analysis, 60: 363–367. (Scholar)
- –––, 2006, Arguing about Gods, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. (Scholar)
- –––, 2007, “The Ontological Argument” in P. Copan and C. Meister (eds.), Philosophy of Religion: Classic and Contemporary Issues, Oxford: Blackwell. (Scholar)
- ––– (ed.), 2018, Ontological Arguments, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. (Scholar)
- Plantinga, A., 1967, God and Other Minds, Ithaca: Cornell University Press. (Scholar)
- –––, 1974, The Nature of Necessity, Oxford: Oxford University Press. (Scholar)
- Priest, G., 2018, “Existence and Necessity”, in G.
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- –––, 2010,“The Ontological Argument and the Motivational Centres of Lives”, Religious Studies, 46: 233–249. (Scholar)
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- Rasmussen, J., 2018, “Plantinga”, in G. Oppy (ed.),
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- Rowe, W., 1989, “The Ontological Argument”, in J.
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- Siegwart, G., 2014, “Gaunilo Parodies Anselm: An Extraordinary Job for the Interpreter”, Philosophiegeschichte Und Logische Analyse, 17: 45–71. (Scholar)
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- Sobel, J., 1987, “Gödel’s Ontological
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- Smullyan, R., 1984, 5000 BC and Other Philosophical
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- Szatkowski, M. (ed.), 2012, Ontological Proofs Today, Frankfurt: Ontos Verlag. (Scholar)
- Tooley, M., 1981, “Plantinga’s Defence of the
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- van Inwagen, P., 1977, “Ontological Arguments”, Noûs, 11: 375–395. (Scholar)
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