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79The Analytic Theist: An Alvin Plantinga ReaderEerdmans. 1998.This collection of essays and excerpts gives a comprehensive overview of Alvin Plantinga 's seminal work as a Christian philosopher of religion
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98Justification and TheismFaith and Philosophy 4 (4): 403-426. 1987.The question is: how should a theist think of justification or positive epistemic status? The answer I suggest is: a belief B has positive epistemic status for S only if S’s faculties are functioning properly (i.e., functioning in the way God intended them to) in producing B, and only if S’s cognitive environment is sufficiently similar to the one for which her faculties are designed; and under those conditions the more firmly S is inclined to accept B, the more positive epistemic status it has …Read more
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268``An Evolutionary Argument Against Naturalism"Logos. Anales Del Seminario de Metafísica [Universidad Complutense de Madrid, España] 12 27--48. 1991.Only in rational creatures is there found a likeness of God which counts as an image . . . . As far as a likeness of the divine nature is concerned, rational creatures seem somehow to attain a representation of [that] type in virtue of imitating God not only in this, that he is and lives, but especially in this, that he understands (ST Ia Q.93 a.6).
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67. Die Sünde und ihre kognitiven KonsequenzenIn Gewährleisteter Christlicher Glaube, De Gruyter. pp. 232-282. 2015.
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194ScienceFaith and Philosophy 13 (3): 368-394. 1996.This paper is a continuation of a discussion with Ernan McMullin; its topic is the question how theists (in particular, Christian theists) should think about modern science---the whole range of modern science, including economics, psychology, sociobiology and so on. Should they follow Augustine in thinking that many large scale scientific projects as well as intellectual projects generally are in the service of one or the other of the civitates? Or should they follow Duhem, who (at least in the …Read more
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87Internalism, Externalism, Defeaters and Arguments for Christian BeliefPhilosophia Christi 3 (2): 379-400. 2001.
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249The probabilistic argument from evilPhilosophical Studies 35 (1). 1979.First I state and develop a probabilistic argument for the conclusion that theistic belief is irrational or somehow noetically improper. Then I consider this argument from the point of view of the major contemporary accounts of probability, Concluding that none of them offers the atheologian aid and comfort
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8Dios y el mal: la defensa del teísmo frente al problema del mal según Alvin PlantingaEunsa Editorial Universidad Navarra S.A.. 1996.
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36On Rejecting the Theory of Common Ancestry: A Reply to HaskerPerspectives on Science and Christian Faith 44 258-63. 1992.
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67Dawkins and The Alabama InsertThink 1 (2): 7-20. 2002.In issue one, Richard Dawkins attacked the Alabama State Board of Education for pasting into biology schoolbooks an insert that explained that the theory of evolution is an ‘unproven’ and ‘controversial’ theory that ‘some’ scientists accept. The insert also raised a number of important questions that the theory of evolution still struggles to answer. Here, philosopher Alvin Plantinga responds to Dawkins' criticisms of the insert
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``How to Be an Anti-Realist"Proceedings of the American Philosophical Association 56 47-70. 1982.
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Can God break the laws?In Andrew Dole & Andrew Chignell (eds.), God and the Ethics of Belief: New Essays in Philosophy of Religion, Cambridge University Press. 2005.
Notre Dame, Indiana, United States of America
Areas of Specialization
Epistemology |
Philosophy of Religion |
Areas of Interest
Philosophy of Religion |
17th/18th Century Philosophy |