About the lecture

In this module, we use Anselm’s definition of God as “something than which no greater can be conceived” to derive some of God’s (notional) attributes, both the major “omni-“ attributes (omniscience, omnipotence, omnibenevolence) and further attributes such as omnipresence, immutability, timelessness, and necessary existence.

About the lecturer

Yujin Nagasawa is Professor of Philosophy at the University of Birmingham, specialising in the philosophy of religion, the philosophy of mind and applied philosophy. He is the author of Maximal God: A New Defence of Perfect Being Theism (Oxford University Press, 2017), Miracles: A Very Short Introduction (Oxford University Press, 2017), The Existence of God: A Philosophical Introduction (Routledge, 2011) and God and Phenomenal Consciousness: A Novel Approach to Knowledge Arguments (Cambridge University Press, 2008). He is also President of the British Society for the Philosophy of Religion and Co-Director of the John Hick Centre for Philosophy of Religion.