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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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171Two concepts of modality: Modal realism and modal reductionismJournal of Philosophy 83 (11): 693. 1986.
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35Warrant and designing agents: A reply to James Taylor (review)Philosophical Studies 64 (2). 1991.
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13Against NaturalismIn Alvin Plantinga & Michael Tooley (eds.), Knowledge of God, Blackwell. 2008.This chapter contains sections titled: Theism Alternatives to Theism Naturalism and Its Woes Conclusion.
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22``Pluralism: A Defense of Religious Exclusivism"In Kevin Meeker & Philip Quinn (eds.), The Philosophical Challenge of Religious Diversity, Oxford University Press. pp. 172-192. 1995.
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197Does 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, Eerdmanns. 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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189Intellectual 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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149The Reformed Objection to Natural TheologyThe Christian Scholars Review 11 (n/a): 187-198. 1982.
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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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12Can Robots think : reply to Tooley's second statementIn Knowledge of God, 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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2Religious belief without evidenceIn J. Runzo & Craig Ihara (eds.), Religious Experience, Religious Belief, University Press of America. 1986.
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35Games Scientists PlayIn Michael Murray & Jeffrey Schloss (eds.), The Believing Primate: Scientific, Philosophical, and Theological Reflections on the Origin of Religion, Oxford University Press. pp. 139. 2009.Accession Number: ATLA0001788484; Hosting Book Page Citation: p 139-167.; Language(s): English; Issued by ATLA: 20130825; Publication Type: Essay
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21 On Being Evidentially Challenged 'Alvin Plantinga'In Eleonore Stump & Michael J. Murray (eds.), Philosophy of Religion: The Big Questions, Blackwell. pp. 6--176. 1999.
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14Adorno, theodor & eisler, hanns. Composing for the Films. Introduction by Graham McCann. London: Continuum Books. ISBN 9780826499028.£ 14.00 (pbk). almond, ian. The New Orientalists: Postmodern (review)British Journal of Aesthetics 48 (1). 2008.
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355Reason and Belief in GodIn Alvin Plantinga & Nicholas Wolterstorff (eds.), Faith and Rationality: Reason and Belief in God, University of Notre Dame Press. pp. 16-93. 1983.
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2The Evolutionary Anti-Naturalism ArgumentIn Eleonore Stump & Michael J. Murray (eds.), Philosophy of Religion: The Big Questions, Blackwell. pp. 6--125. 1999.
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162Materialism and Christian beliefIn Peter van Inwagen and Dean Zimmerman (ed.), Persons: Human and Divine, Oxford University Press. pp. 99--141. 2007.
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249Warranted Christian BeliefOxford University Press USA. 2000.This is the third volume in Alvin Plantinga's trilogy on the notion of warrant, which he defines as that which distinguishes knowledge from true belief. In this volume, Plantinga examines warrant's role in theistic belief, tackling the questions of whether it is rational, reasonable, justifiable, and warranted to accept Christian belief and whether there is something epistemically unacceptable in doing so. He contends that Christian beliefs are warranted to the extent that they are formed by pro…Read more
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272Précis of Where the Conflict Really LiesEuropean Journal for Philosophy of Religion 5 (3): 1. 2013.
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69. Das Zeugnis-Modell: In unserem Herzen versiegeltIn Gewährleisteter Christlicher Glaube, De Gruyter. pp. 342-381. 2015.
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