Alvin Carl Plantinga (born November 15, 1932) is an American analytic philosopher who works primarily in the fields of philosophy of religion, epistemology...

Alvin Plantinga's free-will defense is a logical argument developed by the American analytic philosopher Alvin Plantinga and published in its final version...

Religion, published in 1976, and Alvin Plantinga's "Reason and Belief in God", published in 1983. Although Plantinga's Reformed epistemology developed...

located a second, stronger ontological argument in Anselm's work; Alvin Plantinga challenged this argument and proposed an alternative, based on modal...

self-defeating or self-referentially incoherent. — Alvin Plantinga, Naturalism Defeated?: Essays on Plantinga's Evolutionary Argument Against Naturalism, "Introduction"...

contemporary philosophers of religion who defended theism include Alvin Plantinga, Yujin Nagasawa, John Hick, Richard Swinburne, and William Lane Craig...

version is best represented by Alvin Plantinga. Plantinga offers a free will defense, instead of a theodicy. Plantinga begins with the Leibnizian supposition...

philosophical naturalism simultaneously. The argument was first proposed by Alvin Plantinga in 1993 and "raises issues of interest to epistemologists, philosophers...

Plantinga is a surname. Notable people with the surname include: Alvin Plantinga (born 1932), American analytic philosopher Cornelius Plantinga (born...

The logic of Augustine's approach has been adapted by Alvin Plantinga, among others. Plantinga's adapted Augustinian theodicy, the free will defence –...

requires |journal= (help) Plantinga, Alvin (2012). Tomberlin, H.; Tomberlin, James E.; van Inwagen, P. (eds.). Alvin Plantinga "Self Profile". Springer...

been criticised by philosophers Brian Garvey, Peter van Inwagen and Alvin Plantinga as to its validity regarding religion. Russell's teapot has given rise...

Seminary in 1982. He is the brother of philosopher Alvin Plantinga and musicologist Leon Plantinga. Plantinga has written several books, including Not the Way...

contemporary Molinists include William Lane Craig, Alfred Freddoso, Alvin Plantinga, Michael Bergmann, Thomas Flint, Kenneth Keathley, Dave Armstrong,...

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...

anthropodicy attempts to justify the goodness of humanity. As defined by Alvin Plantinga, a theodicy is "an answer to the question of why God permits evil"...

"to set the bar for 'naturalism' higher." Philosopher and theologian Alvin Plantinga, a well-known critic of naturalism in general, comments: "Naturalism...

Warranted Christian Belief is a book written by Alvin Plantinga and published in 2000 (Oxford University Press). It constitutes, after Warrant: The Current...

apprentice jockey Alvin Plantinga (born 1932), American philosopher Alvin Francis Poussaint (born 1934), American psychiatrist Alvin Robertson (born 1962)...

or creation are responsible for fine-tuning. Christian philosopher Alvin Plantinga argues that random chance, applied to a single and sole universe, only...

emeritus faculty. He is the brother of philosopher Alvin Plantinga and theologian Cornelius Plantinga. He is the author of Beethoven's Concertos: History...

and philosophy of education. In Faith and Rationality, Wolterstorff, Alvin Plantinga, and William Alston developed and expanded upon a view of religious...

in contemporary Christian religious epistemology, as in the work of Alvin Plantinga (born 1932), William P. Alston (1921-2009), Nicholas Wolterstorff (born...

Schema (psychology) Worldview Alvin Plantinga, Faith and Rationality, (London Notre Dame, 1983) pp. 39-44. Here Plantinga is basing his analysis on the...

Philosophy". Plantinga, Alvin. "Does God Have a Nature?" in Plantinga, Alvin, and James F. Sennett. 1998. The analytic theist: an Alvin Plantinga reader. Grand...

scientific explanation when a natural explanation has not been found. As Alvin Plantinga acknowledges, this is a "science stopper", and these concepts lack...

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...

agents who desire truth but use poorly suited methods to pursue it. Alvin Plantinga offers another theory of knowledge closely related to virtue epistemology...

September 2006, was on the subject of "faith, reason and the university". Alvin Plantinga upholds that faith may be the result of evidence testifying to the...

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