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``Reason and Belief in God"In Alvin Plantinga & Nicholas Wolterstorff (eds.), Faith and Rationality: Reason and Belief in God, Notre Dame: University of Notre Dame Press. pp. 16-94. 1983.
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24Functionalism and MaterialismPhilosophia Christi 14 (1): 49-54. 2012.My major dispute with Michael Tooley’s response (“Plantinga’s New Argument against Materialism”) to my original article is with his philosophy of mind. Tooley’s objection depends on a functionalist account of mental states such as beliefs, desires and intentions. I offer reasons to reject functionalism and, hence, the same goes for any objection to my argument that is based on or presupposes functionalism.
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452Methodological NaturalismOrigins and Design 18 (1): 18-27. 1997.The philosophical doctrine of methodological naturalism holds that, for any study of the world to qualify as "scientific," it cannot refer to God's creative activity (or any sort of divine activity). The methods of science, it is claimed, "give us no purchase" on theological propositions--even if the latter are true--and theology therefore cannot influence scientific explanation or theory justification. Thus, science is said to be religiously neutral, if only because science and religion are, by…Read more
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64Justification in the 20th CenturyPhilosophy and Phenomenological Research 50 (n/a): 45-71. 1990.
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71The Reformed Objection to Natural TheologyProceedings and Addresses of the American Philosophical Association 54 (n/a): 49. 1980.
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108. Das erweiterte Thomas-von-Aquin/calvin-modell– Unserem Verstand geoffenbartIn Gewährleisteter Christlicher Glaube, De Gruyter. pp. 283-341. 2015.
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142Science and Religion: Why Does the Debate Continue?In Melville Y. Stewart (ed.), Science and Religion in Dialogue, Wiley-blackwell. pp. 299--316. 2010.This chapter contains sections titled: * 1 Science and Secularism * 2 Evolution * Acknowledgment * Notes * References
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In M. DavidsonIn Matthew Davidson (ed.), Essays in the Metaphysics of Modality, Oxford University Press, Usa. 2003.
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24Resurrecting Old-Fashioned FoundationalismRowman & Littlefield Publishers. 2000.The contributions in this volume make an important effort to resurrect a rather old fashioned form of foundationalism. They defend the position that there are some beliefs that are justified, and are not themselves justified by any further beliefs. This epistemic foundationalism has been the subject of rigorous attack by a wide range of theorists in recent years, leading to the impression that foundationalism is a thing of the past. DePaul argues that it is precisely the volume and virulence of …Read more
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Comment on Paul Ziff's The Simplicity of Other MindsJournal of Philosophy 62 (October): 585-586. 1965.
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20Religious experience and religious belief: essays in the epistemology of religion (edited book)University Press of America. 1986.To find more information on Rowman & Littlefield titles, please visit us at www.rowmanlittlefield.com.
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135Induction and other mindsReview of Metaphysics 19 (3): 441-61. 1966.But here a preliminary difficulty must be dealt with: can't we sometimes see that a man is in pain? Can't we sometimes see that someone is thinking, depressed, or exuberant? And if anything would be "determining by observation" that another is in pain, surely seeing that he is would be: so why is a tenuous analogical inference necessary?
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101On Heresy, Mind, and TruthFaith 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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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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Religious Belief as BasicIn Eleonore Stump & Michael J. Murray (eds.), Philosophy of Religion: The Big Questions, Blackwell. pp. 6--285. 1999.
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442God, freedom, and evilEerdmans. 1978.This book discusses and exemplifies the philosophy of religion, or philosophical reflection on central themes of religion.
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676The Nature of NecessityClarendon Press. 1974.This book, one of the first full-length studies of the modalities to emerge from the debate to which Saul Kripke, David Lewis, Ruth Marcus, and others are contributing, is an exploration and defense of the notion of modality de re, the idea that objects have both essential and accidental properties. Plantinga develops his argument by means of the notion of possible worlds and ranges over such key problems as the nature of essence, transworld identity, negative existential propositions, and the e…Read more
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64ResponsePhilosophia Reformata 79 (1): 83-97. 2014.Let me say first that I am delighted to respond to the excellent papers by Elizabeth Burns, Jeroen de Ridder, Esther Kroeker, Ignacio Silva, and Daniel von Wachter. It has been a real pleasure to reflect on and react to their comments.
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Areas of Specialization
Epistemology |
Philosophy of Religion |
Areas of Interest
Philosophy of Religion |
17th/18th Century Philosophy |