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12Can Robots think : reply to Tooley's second statementIn Knowledge of God, Blackwell. 2008.This chapter contains sections titled: Can a Material Thing Think? Tooley's Reply to the Evolutionary Argument against Naturalism.
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2Religious belief without evidenceIn J. Runzo & Craig Ihara (eds.), Religious Experience, Religious Belief, University Press of America. 1986.
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35Games Scientists PlayIn Michael Murray & Jeffrey Schloss (eds.), The Believing Primate: Scientific, Philosophical, and Theological Reflections on the Origin of Religion, Oxford University Press. pp. 139. 2009.Accession Number: ATLA0001788484; Hosting Book Page Citation: p 139-167.; Language(s): English; Issued by ATLA: 20130825; Publication Type: Essay
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24The Perfect Goodness of GodAustralasian Journal of Philosophy 40 (n/a): 70. 1962.The author criticizes an article by c b martin called "the perfect good." the author shows that martin's argument, That the theologians' argument is a contradiction, Does not hold. (staff)
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21 On Being Evidentially Challenged 'Alvin Plantinga'In Eleonore Stump & Michael J. Murray (eds.), Philosophy of Religion: The Big Questions, Blackwell. pp. 6--176. 1999.
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2The Evolutionary Anti-Naturalism ArgumentIn Eleonore Stump & Michael J. Murray (eds.), Philosophy of Religion: The Big Questions, Blackwell. pp. 6--125. 1999.
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162Materialism and Christian beliefIn Peter van Inwagen and Dean Zimmerman (ed.), Persons: Human and Divine, Oxford University Press. pp. 99--141. 2007.
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356Reason and Belief in GodIn Alvin Plantinga & Nicholas Wolterstorff (eds.), Faith and Rationality: Reason and Belief in God, University of Notre Dame Press. pp. 16-93. 1983.
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69. Das Zeugnis-Modell: In unserem Herzen versiegeltIn Gewährleisteter Christlicher Glaube, De Gruyter. pp. 342-381. 2015.
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4The Analytic Theist: An Alvin Plantinga ReaderWm. B. Eerdmans Publishing. 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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412. Zwei Arten der BibelforschungIn Gewährleisteter Christlicher Glaube, De Gruyter. pp. 441-499. 2015.
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155An Existentialist's EthicsReview of Metaphysics 12 (2). 1958.This is especially clear in the case of Jean Paul Sartre's philosophy of freedom. Existentialists in general and Sartre in particular argue that an analysis, not of human nature, indeed, but of, say, "the universal human condition" reveals that certain kinds of behavior are morally appropriate and others morally reprehensible. My aim in this paper is to show that Sartre's analysis of "the universal human condition" is quite inconsistent with morality in anything like the ordinary sense. We might…Read more
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274Précis of Where the Conflict Really LiesEuropean Journal for Philosophy of Religion 5 (3): 1. 2013.
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98Swinburne and Plantinga on internal rationalityReligious Studies 37 (3): 357-358. 2001.I took it that the definitions Swinburne quotes imply that all of a person's basic beliefs are rational; Swinburne demurs. It still seems to me that these definitions have this consequence. Let me briefly explain why. According to Swinburne, a person's evidence consists of his basic beliefs, weighted by his confidence in them. So presumably we are to think of S's evidence as the set of the beliefs he takes in the basic way, together with a sort of index indicating, for each of those beliefs, his…Read more
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391Warrant and proper functionOxford University Press. 1993.In this companion volume to Warrant: The Current Debate, Plantinga develops an original approach to the question of epistemic warrant; that is what turns true belief into knowledge. He argues that what is crucial to warrant is the proper functioning of one's cognitive faculties in the right kind of cognitive environment
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1013Science and Religion: Are They Compatible?Oup Usa. 2010.An enlightening discussion that will motivate students to think critically, the book opens with Plantinga's assertion that Christianity is compatible with evolutionary theory because Christians believe that God created the living world, and it is entirely possible that God did so by using a process of evolution.
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1On Taking Belief in God as BasicIn J. Runzo & Craig Ihara (eds.), Religious Experience, Religious Belief, University Press of America. 1986.
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117De EssentiaGrazer Philosophische Studien 7 (1): 101-121. 1979.In this paper I propose an amendment to Chisholm's definition of individual essence. I then argue that a thing has more than one individual essence and that there is no reason to believe no one grasps anyone else's essence. The remainder of the paper is devoted to a refutation of existentialism, the view that the essence of an object X (along with propositions and states of affairs directly about x) is ontologically dependent upon x in the sense that it could not have existed if x had not existe…Read more
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59Replies to my commentatorsIn Dieter Schönecker (ed.), Plantinga's Warranted Christian Belief: Critical Essays with a Reply by Alvin Plantinga, De Gruyter. pp. 237-262. 2015.
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175How to be an Anti-RealistProceedings and Addresses of the American Philosophical Association 56 (1). 1982.
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12``On Heresy, Mind, and Truth"Faith and Philosophy 16 (2): 182-193. 1999.In this article I thank Eleonore Stump, Peter van Inwagen, and Merold Westphal for their gracious and insightful comments on my “Advice”; then I try to reply.
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14Chisholmian internalismIn D. F. Austin (ed.), Philosophical Analysis, Kluwer Academic Publishers. pp. 127--151. 1988.
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20Gewährleisteter Christlicher GlaubeDe Gruyter. 2015.Gewahrleisteter Christliche Glaube is the German translation of Alvin Plantinga s seminal work, Warranted Christian Belief. Plantinga was among the most influential religious philosophers of the 20th century. His notion of warrant is difficult to translate, referring to the quality that distinguishes a true belief from knowledge. Plantinga s core thesis is that religious beliefs can be warranted."
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Areas of Specialization
Epistemology |
Philosophy of Religion |
Areas of Interest
Philosophy of Religion |
17th/18th Century Philosophy |