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160Evolution, epiphenomenalism, reductionismPhilosophy and Phenomenological Research 68 (3): 602-619. 2004.A common contemporary claim is the conjunction of metaphysical naturalism—the idea, roughly, that there is no such person as God or anything at all like God—with the view that our cognitive faculties have come to be by way of the processes to which contemporary evolutionary theory direct our attention. Call this view ‘N&E’. I’ve argued elsewhere that this view is incoherent or self-defeating in that anyone who accepts it has a defeater for R, the proposition that her cognitive faculties are reli…Read more
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177Two concepts of modality: Modal realism and modal reductionismJournal of Philosophy 83 (11): 693. 1986.
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40Warranted Christian Belief: The Aquinas/Calvin ModelIn G. Bruntrup & R. K. Tacelli (eds.), The Rationality of Theism, Kluwer Academic Publishers. pp. 125--143. 1999.
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2A Contemporary Defence of Ontological ArgumentsIn Brian Davies (ed.), Philosophy of Religion: A Guide and Anthology, Oxford University Press. 2000.
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22``Pluralism: A Defense of Religious Exclusivism"In Kevin Meeker & Philip Quinn (eds.), The Philosophical Challenge of Religious Diversity, Oxford University Press. pp. 172-192. 1995.
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197Does God Have a Nature?Marquette University Press. 1980.Sets of contingent objects, perhaps, are as contingent as their members; but properties, propositions, numbers and states of affairs, it seems, are objects whose non-existence is quite impossible. If so, however, how are they related to God? Suppose God has a nature: a property he has essentially that includes each property essential to him. Does God have a nature? And if he does, is there a conflict between God's sovereignty and his having a nature? How is God related to such abstract objects a…Read more
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9Supralapsarianism, or 'O Felix Culpa'In Peter van Inwagen (ed.), Christian Faith and the Problem of Evil, Eerdmanns. pp. 1-25. 2004.The problem of evil has challenged religious minds and hearts throughout the ages. Just how can the presence of suffering, tragedy, and wrongdoing be squared with the all-powerful, all-loving God of faith? This book gathers some of the best, most meaningful recent reflections on the problem of evil, with contributions by shrewd thinkers in the areas of philosophy, theology, literature, linguistics, and sociology. In addition to bringing new insights to the old problem of evil, Christian Faith an…Read more
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190Intellectual Sophistication and Basic Belief in GodFaith and Philosophy 3 306-312. 1986.are properly basic for at least some believers in God; there are widely realized sets of conditions, I suggested, in which such propositions are indeed properly basic. And when I said that these beliefs are properly basic, I had in mind what Quinn calls the narrow conception of the basing relation.[1] I was taking it that a person S accepts a belief A on the basis of a belief B only if (roughly) S believes both A and B and could correctly claim (on reflection) that B is part of his evidence for …Read more
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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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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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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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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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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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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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189Examines both sides of this major dilemma, arguing that the conflict between science and theistic religion is actually superficial, and that at a deeper level they are in concord with each other.
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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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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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