Alvin Carl Plantinga (born November 15, 1932) is an American analytic philosopher who works primarily in the fields of philosophy of religion, epistemology...
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Alvin Plantinga's free-will defense is a logical argument developed by the American analytic philosopher Alvin Plantinga and published in its final version...
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Religion, published in 1976, and Alvin Plantinga's "Reason and Belief in God", published in 1983. Although Plantinga's Reformed epistemology developed...
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Ontological argument (section Alvin Plantinga)
located a second, stronger ontological argument in Anselm's work; Alvin Plantinga challenged this argument and proposed an alternative, based on modal...
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philosophical naturalism simultaneously. The argument was first proposed by Alvin Plantinga in 1993 and "raises issues of interest to epistemologists, philosophers...
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contemporary philosophers of religion who defended theism include Alvin Plantinga, Yujin Nagasawa, John Hick, Richard Swinburne, and William Lane Craig...
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Naturalism (philosophy) (section Alvin Plantinga)
self-defeating or self-referentially incoherent. — Alvin Plantinga, Naturalism Defeated?: Essays on Plantinga's Evolutionary Argument Against Naturalism, "Introduction"...
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version is best represented by Alvin Plantinga. Plantinga offers a free will defense, instead of a theodicy. Plantinga begins with the Leibnizian supposition...
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Plantinga is a surname. Notable people with the surname include: Alvin Plantinga (born 1932), American analytic philosopher Cornelius Plantinga (born...
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Augustinian theodicy (section Alvin Plantinga)
The logic of Augustine's approach has been adapted by Alvin Plantinga, among others. Plantinga's adapted Augustinian theodicy, the free will defence –...
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been criticised by philosophers Brian Garvey, Peter van Inwagen and Alvin Plantinga as to its validity regarding religion. Russell's teapot has given rise...
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contemporary Molinists include William Lane Craig, Alfred Freddoso, Alvin Plantinga, Michael Bergmann, Thomas Flint, Kenneth Keathley, Dave Armstrong,...
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suggestion that we must "deny knowledge in order to make room for faith". Alvin Plantinga defines "fideism" as "the exclusive or basic reliance upon faith alone...
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Seminary in 1982. He is the brother of philosopher Alvin Plantinga and musicologist Leon Plantinga. Plantinga has written several books, including Not the Way...
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requires |journal= (help) Plantinga, Alvin (2012). Tomberlin, H.; Tomberlin, James E.; van Inwagen, P. (eds.). Alvin Plantinga "Self Profile". Springer...
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anthropodicy attempts to justify the goodness of humanity. As defined by Alvin Plantinga, theodicy is the "answer to the question of why God permits evil"....
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Warranted Christian Belief is a book written by Alvin Plantinga and published in 2000 (Oxford University Press). It constitutes, after Warrant: The Current...
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"to set the bar for 'naturalism' higher." Philosopher and theologian Alvin Plantinga, a well-known critic of naturalism in general, comments: "Naturalism...
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of the reformed epistemologists such as Alvin Plantinga, William Alston, and Nicholas Wolterstorff. Plantinga was awarded the Templeton Prize in 2017...
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or creation are responsible for fine-tuning. Christian philosopher Alvin Plantinga argues that random chance, applied to a single and sole universe, only...
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Philosophy". Plantinga, Alvin. "Does God Have a Nature?" in Plantinga, Alvin, and James F. Sennett. 1998. The analytic theist: an Alvin Plantinga reader. Grand...
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apprentice jockey Alvin Plantinga (born 1932), American philosopher Alvin Francis Poussaint (born 1934), American psychiatrist Alvin Robertson (born 1962)...
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Schema (psychology) Worldview Alvin Plantinga, Faith and Rationality, (London Notre Dame, 1983) pp. 39-44. Here Plantinga is basing his analysis on the...
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Alvin Ira Goldman (October 1, 1938 – August 4, 2024) was an American philosopher who was emeritus Board of Governors Professor of Philosophy and Cognitive...
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Other Minds is a 1967 book by the American philosopher of religion Alvin Plantinga which re-kindled philosophical debate on the existence of God in Anglo-American...
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non-evidentialists. They include fideists and reformed epistemologists. Alvin Plantinga and other reformed epistemologists are examples of philosophers who...
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emeritus faculty. He is the brother of philosopher Alvin Plantinga and theologian Cornelius Plantinga. He is the author of Beethoven's Concertos: History...
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Theistic science (section Plantinga)
scientific explanation when a natural explanation has not been found. As Alvin Plantinga acknowledges, this is a "science stopper", and these concepts lack...
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in contemporary Christian religious epistemology, as in the work of Alvin Plantinga (born 1932), William P. Alston (1921-2009), Nicholas Wolterstorff (born...
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show how this can go too far,[how?] and Alvin Plantinga deals with it.[clarification needed] While Plantinga upholds that faith may be the result of evidence...
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