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93Warrant: The Current Debate.Warrant and Proper FunctionOxford University Press USA. 1993.Plantinga examines the nature of epistemic warrant; whatever it is that when added to true belief yields knowledge. This volume surveys current contributions to the debate and paves the way for his owm positive proposal in Warrant and Proper Function.
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11The Metaphysics of ModalityOxford University Press USA. 1969.These essays, dating from the late 1960's to the present, 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 non-actual objects? Can objects that do not exist exemplify properties? Plantinga gives thorough and penetrating answers to these and other questions.
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156Response to William Lane Craig’s Review of Where the Conflict Really LiesPhilosophia Christi 15 (1): 175-179. 2013.I try to clear up a couple of misunderstandings in William Craig’s review. The first has to do with the difference between what I call “Historical Biblical Criticism” and historical scholarship. I claim there is conflict between the first and Christian belief; I don’t for a moment think there is conflict between historical scholarship and Christian belief. The second has to do with Platonism, theism and causality. I point out that theism has the resources to see abstract objects as like divine t…Read more
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22Proper FunctionalismWarrant: The Current Debate.Warrant and Proper FunctionNoûs 27 (1): 34. 1993.
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48Precis of Warrant: The Current Debate and Warrant and Proper FunctionWarrant: The Current Debate.Warrant and Proper FunctionPhilosophy and Phenomenological Research 55 (2): 393. 1995.
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God and Other Minds: A Study of the Rational Justification of Belief in GodReligious Studies 4 (2): 288-291. 1969.
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181On Ockham’s Way OutFaith and Philosophy 3 (3): 235-269. 1986.In Part I, I present two traditional arguments for the incompatibility of divine foreknowledge with human freedom; the first of these is clearly fallacious; but the second, the argument from the necessity of the past, is much stronger. In the second section I explain and partly endorse Ockham’s response to the second argument: that only propositions strictly about the past are accidentally necessary, and past propositions about God’s knowledge of the future are not strictly about the past. In th…Read more
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21The Foundations of TheismFaith and Philosophy 3 (3): 298-313. 1986.Philip Quinn’s “On Finding the Foundations of Theism” is both challenging and important. Quinn proposes at least the following four theses: (a) my argument against the criteria of proper basicality proposed by classical foundationalism is unsuccessful, (b) the quasi-inductive method I suggest for arriving at criteria of proper basicality is defective, (c) even if belief in God is properly basic, it could without loss of justification be accepted on the basis of other propositions, and (d) belief…Read more
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20What’s The Question?Journal of Philosophical Research 20 19-43. 1995.Two kinds of critical questions have been asked about the propriety or rightness of Christian beliefs. The first is the de facto question: is Christian belief true? The second is the de jure question: is it rational, or reasonable, or intellectually acceptable, or rationally justifiable? This second question is much harder to locate than you’d guess from looking at the literature. In “Perceiving God” William AIston suggests that the (or a) right question here is the question of “the practical ra…Read more
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28De 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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148Science 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 Alvin Plantinga & Matthew Davidson (eds.), Essays in the metaphysics of modality, Oxford University Press. 2003.
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40Resurrecting 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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108. Das erweiterte Thomas-von-Aquin/calvin-modell– Unserem Verstand geoffenbartIn Gewährleisteter Christlicher Glaube, De Gruyter. pp. 283-341. 2015.
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137Induction 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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115On 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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Epistemology |
Philosophy of Religion |
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Philosophy of Religion |
17th/18th Century Philosophy |