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2Preliminary Distinctions and RemarksIn The Nature of Necessity, Clarendon Press. 1974.I clarify the notion of necessity that I will be examining in the book. In the first section, I claim that the relevant notion of necessity is ‘broad logical necessity’, which I distinguish from causal necessity, unrevisability and a proposition being self‐evident or a priori. In the second section, I distinguish between modality de dicto and modality de re. An assertion of modality de dicto predicates a modal property of another dictum or proposition, while a claim of modality de re asserts of …Read more
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God and NecessityIn The Nature of Necessity, Clarendon Press. 1974.In Ch.10, I apply the previous chapters’ account of modality to the Ontological Argument for the existence of God. I begin the chapter by attempting to develop a sound version of the Ontological Argument based on the work of St. Anselm. I conclude that this argument fails, as does a more recent attempt by Charles Hartshorne and Norman Malcolm. I then give a modal version of the Ontological Argument that is sound and is based on the claim that the property of unsurpassable greatness is possibly e…Read more
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92Tanrı ve Diğer ZihinlerFol Yayınları. 2024.“1950’li yıllarda dönemin büyük felsefecileri arasında dinsel inancı savunan bir kişi bile yoktu. 1990’lı yıllarda Yale’den UCLA’ya, Oxford’dan Heidelberg’e kadar birçok yerde insanın manevi yanını savunan ve geliştiren yüzlerce kitap yazılacak, sel olup akacaktı. Aradaki 40 yıllık süre zarfındaysa sadece ve sadece Alvin Plantinga vardı.” Kelly James Clark Tanrı’nın veya tanrıların varlığı sorusu felsefenin ezeli sorularından biri olagelmişse de Nietzsche’nin Tanrı’nın ölümünü ilan ettiği günden…Read more
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277Tanrı, Özgürlük ve KötülükFol Yayınları. 2022.Ateistler, kötülük probleminin Tanrı’nın varlığı aleyhine en güçlü argüman olduğu konusunda hâlâ ısrarcılar. Felsefe tarihine baktığımızda da Epikuros’tan Hume’a ve yakın dönemde Mackie’ye kadar uzanan bir yelpazede çeşitli düşünürler tarafından bu konuda birçok eleştirinin dile getirildiğini görmek mümkün. Plantinga bu çalışmasında felsefe tarihinin en köklü sorunlarından biri olan ‘Tanrı’nın varlığı sorusu’nu cevaplamaya çalışmakla kalmayıp felsefi bir yöntem ve soruşturmanın nasıl olması gere…Read more
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55Knowledge of God (edited book)Wiley-Blackwell. 2008.Is belief in God epistemically justified? That's the question at the heart of this volume in the Great Debates in Philosophy series, with Alvin Plantinga and Michael Tooley each addressing this fundamental question with distinctive arguments from opposing perspectives. The first half of the book contains each philosopher's explanation of his particular view; the second half allows them to directly respond to each other's arguments, in a lively and engaging conversation Offers the reader a one of…Read more
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6Reply to Plantinga's Opening StatementIn Alvin Plantinga & Michael Tooley (eds.), Knowledge of God, Wiley-blackwell. 2008.This chapter contains sections titled: Plantinga's First Objection: Naturalism and the Concept of Function Plantinga's Third Objection: Materialism and Belief Plantinga's Second Argument: Naturalism as Self‐Defeating Summing Up.
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4IndexIn Alvin Plantinga & Michael Tooley (eds.), Knowledge of God, Wiley-blackwell. 2008.This chapter contains sections titled: Theism Alternatives to Theism Naturalism and Its Woes Conclusion.
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8Does God Exist?In Alvin Plantinga & Michael Tooley (eds.), Knowledge of God, Wiley-blackwell. 2008.This chapter contains sections titled: Introduction Some Preliminary Issues Arguments Against the Existence of God The Argument from Evil and the Existence of God The Evidential Argument from Evil Summing Up Appendix: The Structure‐Description Approach to Inductive Logic.
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19Reformed EpistemologyIn Charles Taliaferro & Philip L. Quinn (eds.), A Companion to Philosophy of Religion, Wiley-blackwell. 1997.This chapter contains sections titled: Works cited Additional recommendations by editors.
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19The Evolutionary Argument against NaturalismIn J. B. Stump & Alan G. Padgett (eds.), The Blackwell Companion to Science and Christianity, Wiley-blackwell. 2012.This chapter contains sections titled: Evolution and Naturalism Reliability of Our Cognitive Faculties Naturalists Are Committed to Materialism Materialist Construal of Beliefs Reductive and Non‐reductive Materialism The Argument against Non‐reductive Materialism Reductive Materialism Objection Conclusion Note References Further Reading.
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6Divine Action in the WorldIn Melville Y. Stewart (ed.), Science and Religion in Dialogue, Wiley-blackwell. 2010.This chapter contains sections titled: The Old Scientific Picture The New Scientific Picture Notes.
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8The Evolutionary Argument Against NaturalismIn Melville Y. Stewart (ed.), Science and Religion in Dialogue, Wiley-blackwell. 2010.This chapter contains sections titled: Notes.
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11The Evolutionary Argument against Naturalism: An Initial Statement of the ArgumentIn Michael Ruse (ed.), Philosophy After Darwin: Classic and Contemporary Readings, Princeton University Press. pp. 301-309. 2009.
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29Response to WarrantWarrant: The Current Debate.Warrant and Proper FunctionPhilosophy and Phenomenological Research 55 (2): 415. 1995.
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961Truth, Omniscience, and Cantorian Arguments: An ExchangePhilosophical Studies 71 (3): 267-306. 1993.An exchange between Patrick Grim and Alvin Plantinga regarding Cantorian arguments against the possibility of an omniscient being.
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122``Truth, Omniscience and Cantorian Arguments: An Exchange" (review)Philosophical Studies 71 (3): 267-306. 1993.
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54Proper and Improper Use of Cognitive Faculties: A Counterexample to Plantiga’s Proper Functioning Theory (review)Philosophy and Phenomenological Research 55 (2): 409. 1995.
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Analiticheskiĭ teist: antologii︠a︡ Alvina Plantingi = The analytic theist: an Alvin Plastinga readerI︠A︡zyki slavi︠a︡nskoĭ kulʹtury. 2014.
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17Knowledge and Christian beliefWilliam B. Eerdmans Publishing Company. 2015.Can we speak and think about God? -- What is the question? -- Warranted belief in God -- The extended A/C model -- Faith -- Sealed upon our hearts -- Objections -- Defeaters? historical biblical criticism -- Defeaters? pluralism -- Defeaters? evil.
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Scientism : who needs it?In Jeroen de Ridder, Rik Peels & Rene van Woudenberg (eds.), Scientism: Prospects and Problems, Oxford University Press. 2018.
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23.3 'on ockham's way out'In William Lane Craig (ed.), Philosophy of religion: a reader and guide, Rutgers University Press. pp. 246-256. 2002.
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1Actualism and Possible WorldsIn Tim Crane & Katalin Farkas (eds.), Metaphysics: a guide and anthology, Oxford University Press. 2004.
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358Essays in the metaphysics of modalityOxford University Press. 2003.Perhaps no one has done more in the last 30 years to advance thinking in the metaphysics of modality than has Alvin Plantinga. Collected here are some of his most important essays on this influential subject. Dating back from the late 1960's to the present, they chronicle the development of Plantinga's thoughts about some of the most fundamental issues in metaphysics: what is the nature of abstract objects like possible worlds, properties, propositions, and such phenomena? Are there possible but…Read more
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Why propositions cannot be concreteIn Alvin Plantinga & Matthew Davidson (eds.), Essays in the metaphysics of modality, Oxford University Press. 2003.
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57950Faith and Rationality: Reason and Belief in God (edited book)University of Notre Dame Press. 1983.A collection of essays by contemporary Calvinist philosophers of religion that examine the epistemology of religious belief between Reformed and Roman Catholic philosophers.
Notre Dame, Indiana, United States of America
Areas of Specialization
Epistemology |
Philosophy of Religion |
Areas of Interest
Philosophy of Religion |
17th/18th Century Philosophy |