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154Response 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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69Precis 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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20The 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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372On 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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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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12``On Heresy, Mind, and Truth"Faith 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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14Chisholmian internalismIn D. F. Austin (ed.), Philosophical Analysis, Kluwer Academic Publishers. pp. 127--151. 1988.
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59Replies to my commentatorsIn Dieter Schönecker (ed.), Plantinga's Warranted Christian Belief: Critical Essays with a Reply by Alvin Plantinga, De Gruyter. pp. 237-262. 2015.
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172How to be an Anti-RealistProceedings and Addresses of the American Philosophical Association 56 (1). 1982.
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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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Region and scienceIn Peter Adamson (ed.), Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy, Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy. 2012.
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19Gewährleisteter 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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