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    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
  • God and Necessity
    In 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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    Tanrı ve Diğer Zihinler
    Fol 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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    Tanrı, Özgürlük ve Kötülük
    Fol 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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    Knowledge 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
  •  6
    Reply to Plantinga's Opening Statement
    In 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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    Index
    In 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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    Does 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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    Reformed Epistemology
    In 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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    The Evolutionary Argument against Naturalism
    In 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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    Divine Action in the World
    In 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.
  •  8
    The Evolutionary Argument Against Naturalism
    In Melville Y. Stewart (ed.), Science and Religion in Dialogue, Wiley-blackwell. 2010.
    This chapter contains sections titled: Notes.
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    Response to WarrantWarrant: The Current Debate.Warrant and Proper Function
    Philosophy and Phenomenological Research 55 (2): 415. 1995.
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    The Ontological Argument
    with Jonathan Barnes
    Philosophical Review 84 (4): 582. 1975.
  •  961
    Truth, Omniscience, and Cantorian Arguments: An Exchange
    Philosophical 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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    ``Truth, Omniscience and Cantorian Arguments: An Exchange" (review)
    Philosophical Studies 71 (3): 267-306. 1993.
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    Faith and Rationality
    with James E. Tomberlin and Nicholas Wolterstorff
    Noûs 20 (3): 401. 1986.
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    Knowledge and Christian belief
    William 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.
  • 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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    3.3 '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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    Actualism and Possible Worlds
    In Tim Crane & Katalin Farkas (eds.), Metaphysics: a guide and anthology, Oxford University Press. 2004.
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    Essays in the metaphysics of modality
    Oxford 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
  • Why propositions cannot be concrete
    In Alvin Plantinga & Matthew Davidson (eds.), Essays in the metaphysics of modality, Oxford University Press. 2003.
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    Reply
    Analytic Philosophy 43 (2): 124-135. 2002.
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    Faith 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.