b. 1942
Jonathan Barnes is a British analytic philosopher and classicist renowned for his scholarship on Aristotle and ancient philosophy. He critically examined classical arguments for God's existence, notably in his edited volume 'The Ontological Argument' (1972), where he assessed and found wanting the major formulations of ontological reasoning.
Authored critical study 'The Ontological Argument' (1972) analyzing and challenging classical proofs for God's existence
Wrote 'The Presocratic Philosophers' (1979), a landmark two-volume analytical study
Produced the definitive revised Oxford translation of Aristotle's complete works
Held professorships at Oxford, the University of Geneva, and the Sorbonne