The Ontological Argument

An anthology edited by Alvin Plantinga and published in 1965 as an Anchor original by Doubleday, with an introduction by Richard Taylor; Macmillan issued it in 1968. It gathers the principal texts on the ontological argument for the existence of God, from Anselm's formulation and the objections to it through the classical modern discussions to the philosophers writing in the mid twentieth century, so that the argument's history can be followed in the sources themselves. It is one of Plantinga's earliest books, published two years before God and Other Minds, and the argument it documents became one of his lasting concerns: he later defended a modal version of it in The Nature of Necessity and God, Freedom, and Evil.