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25Against NaturalismIn 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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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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404Warrant and proper functionOxford University Press. 1993.In this companion volume to Warrant: The Current Debate, Plantinga develops an original approach to the question of epistemic warrant; that is what turns true belief into knowledge. He argues that what is crucial to warrant is the proper functioning of one's cognitive faculties in the right kind of cognitive environment
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190Two concepts of modality: Modal realism and modal reductionismJournal of Philosophy 83 (11): 693. 1986.
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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 Philip L. Quinn & Kevin Meeker (eds.), The philosophical challenge of religious diversity, Oxford University Press. pp. 172-192. 2000.
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220Does 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, Eerdmans. 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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191Intellectual 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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13Can Robots think : reply to Tooley's second statementIn Alvin Plantinga & Michael Tooley (eds.), Knowledge of God, Wiley-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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Notre Dame, Indiana, United States of America
Areas of Specialization
Epistemology |
Philosophy of Religion |
Areas of Interest
Philosophy of Religion |
17th/18th Century Philosophy |