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"...

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

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...

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 –...

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

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

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

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...

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

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"...

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)...

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

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

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

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...

ISBN 978-1802077476. Plantinga, Alvin. "Does God Have a Nature?" in Plantinga, Alvin, and James F. Sennett. 1998. The analytic theist: an Alvin Plantinga reader. Grand...

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

non-evidentialists. They include fideists and reformed epistemologists. Alvin Plantinga and other reformed epistemologists are examples of philosophers who...

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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for his own ends would be immoral. Twentieth-century philosopher Alvin Plantinga's freewill defense argues that, while this may be the best world God...

philosophy of religion from the early 1970s onwards. Together with Alvin Plantinga, Nicholas Wolterstorff, Robert Adams, and Michael L. Peterson, Alston...