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Region and scienceIn Ed Zalta (ed.), Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy, Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy. 2012.
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21Gewährleisteter Christlicher GlaubeDe Gruyter. 2015.Gewahrleisteter Christliche Glaube is the German translation of Alvin Plantinga s seminal work, Warranted Christian Belief. Plantinga was among the most influential religious philosophers of the 20th century. His notion of warrant is difficult to translate, referring to the quality that distinguishes a true belief from knowledge. Plantinga s core thesis is that religious beliefs can be warranted."
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7The incompatibility of freedom with determinism: A replyPhilosophical Forum 2 (1): 141-148. 1970.
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46Necessary and Essential ExistenceCanadian Journal of Philosophy 6 (1). 1976.First, I wish to thank Professor Carter for his comments. They do contain some misunderstandings, however, some of which I shall try to straighten out.In The Nature of Necessity I argued that every object has the property of existence essentially, but only some things — propositions, properties, perhaps God — have the property of necessary existence.
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411. Bezwinger und BezwingungIn Gewährleisteter Christlicher Glaube, De Gruyter. pp. 421-440. 2015.
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9Evolution, 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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412. Zwei Arten der BibelforschungIn Gewährleisteter Christlicher Glaube, De Gruyter. pp. 441-499. 2015.
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324Transworld depravity, transworld sanctity, & uncooperative essencesPhilosophy and Phenomenological Research 78 (1): 178-191. 2008.No Abstract
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69Functionalism 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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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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88Tooley and evil: A replyAustralasian Journal of Philosophy 60 (1). 1982.The author replies to Michael Tooley's comments ('Alvin Plantinga and the argument from evil', Australasian journal of philosophy, December 1980) on his treatment of the argument from evil in The nature of necessity; he argues that Toole's remarks constitute at best a mere galimatias
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195Is Theism Really a Miracle?Faith and Philosophy 3 (2): 109-134. 1986.In this paper I outline and discuss the central claims and arguments of J. L. Mackie’s The Miracle of Theism. Mackie argues, in essence, that none of the traditional theistic arguments is successful taken either one at a time or in tandem, that the theist does nothave a satisfactory response to the problem of evil, and that on balance the theistic hypothesis is much less probable than is its denial. He then concludes that theism is unsatisfactory and rationally unacceptable. I argue that he is m…Read more
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145Augustinian Christian PhilosophyThe Monist 75 (3): 291-320. 1992.How does Christianity bear on philosophy? Is there such a thing as Christian philosophy, or are there only Christians who are also philosophers? How should Christianity and philosophy be related? Should they be related? In “Advice to Christian Philosophers” I said that Christian philosophers should display more autonomy: they have their own fish to fry, their own projects to pursue,. Here I want to say more about what these projects are like. And the right way to think about these matters, so it…Read more
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163Divine action in the world (synopsis)Ratio 19 (4). 2006.The following is a synopsis of the paper presented by Alvin Plantinga at the RATIO conference on The Meaning of Theism held in April 2005 at the University of Reading. The synopsis has been prepared by the Editor, with the author’s approval, from a handout provided by the author at the conference. The paper reflects on whether religious belief of a traditional Christian kind can be maintained consistently with accepting our modern scientific worldview. Many theologians, and also many scientists,…Read more
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43. Rechtfertigung und das klassische BildIn Gewährleisteter Christlicher Glaube, De Gruyter. pp. 77-127. 2015.
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2Reformed EpistemologyIn Charles Taliaferro & Philip L. Quinn (eds.), A Companion to Philosophy of Religion, Wiley-blackwell. 1997.
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61On being evidentially challengedIn Daniel Howard-Snyder (ed.), The Evidential Argument from Evil, Indiana University Press. pp. 244--261. 1996.
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Coherentism and the Evidentialist Objection to Theistic BeliefIn Robert Audi & William J. Wainwright (eds.), Rationality, religious belief, and moral commitment: new essays in the philosophy of religion, Cornell University Press. 1986.
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``Reason and Belief in God"In Alvin Plantinga & Nicholas Wolterstorff (eds.), Faith and Rationality: Reason and Belief in God, University of Notre Dame Press. pp. 16-94. 1983.
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26Functionalism 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.
Notre Dame, Indiana, United States of America
Areas of Specialization
Epistemology |
Philosophy of Religion |
Areas of Interest
Philosophy of Religion |
17th/18th Century Philosophy |