Alvin Plantinga
Datos Biográficos
| ID | 956555 |
|---|---|
| NOMBRE | Alvin Plantinga |
| NOMBRES | Alvin |
| APELLIDO | Plantinga |
| FIRMA | PLANTINGA A |
| AFILIACIONES | University of Notre Dame |
| VERIFICADO | No |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 53 |
| TOTAL DE CITAS | 68 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 54 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMER AÑO DE PUBLICACIÓN | 1961 |
| AÑO MÁS RECIENTE DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2018 |
| ÍNDICE H | 4 |
Scientism
This chapter surveys several possible versions of scientism and argues that most of them are false. It also suggests that its most obvious motivation, empiricism in either scientism’s classical or positivistic guise, has little to recommend itself. The chapter then homes in on a more moderate version of scientism: the idea that when any nonscientific belief comes into conflict with a scientific belief, it is always the scientific belief that shou…
Scientism
The Religion and Science Debate
Eighty-one years after America witnessed the Scopes trial over the teaching of evolution in public schools, the debate between science and religion continues. In this book scholars from a variety of disciplines—sociology, history, science, and theology—provide new insights into the contemporary dialogue as well as some perspective suggestions for delineating the responsibilities of both the scientific and religious spheres. Why does the tension b…
Supralapsarianism, or “O Felix Culpa”
Law, Cause, and Occasionalism
This chapter argues that there are such things as natural laws, and that they enjoy a sort of necessity. The necessity of natural laws is not a "broadly logical" necessity, but instead a sort of creaturely inviolability: natural laws are such that no creature (as opposed to the Creator) can change or abrogate them. The chapter goes on to consider three ways in which the laws are related to God: secondary causalism, decretalism, and as counterfact…
Where the Conflict Really LiesScience, Religion, and Naturalism
This book is a long-awaited major statement by a pre-eminent analytic philosopher, on one of our biggest debates—the compatibility of science and religion. The last twenty years has seen a cottage industry of books on this divide, but with little consensus emerging. This book's author, as a top philosopher but also a proponent of the rationality of religious belief, has a unique contribution to make. The theme of this short book is that the confl…
When Faith and Reason Clash
Content and Natural Selection
Transworld Depravity, Transworld Sanctity, & Uncooperative Essences
Knowledge of God (Great Debates in Philosophy)
Is belief in God justified? That's the fundamental question at the heart of this book. Alvin Plantinga and Michael Tooley each tackle the matter with distinctive arguments from opposing perspectives. The book opens with an explanation of the philosophers' viewpoints, followed by a lively debate in which each directly responds to the other's arguments
On “Proper Basicality”
Evolution, Epiphenomenalism, Reductionism
Essays in the Metaphysics of Modality
This book is a collection of my essays, dating from 1969, concerning the metaphysics of modality. The first two chapters are a defense of the idea of modality de re against criticisms from William Kneale and W. V. Quine, and an elaboration on the notions of possible worlds and essences. In the third chapter, I conclude that the Theory of Worldbound Individuals is false, even when fortified with Counterpart Theory. Chapter 4 contains an argument f…
Essays in the metaphysics of modality
Warranted Christian Belief
Rationality and public evidence
First, my thanks to Richard Swinburne for his probing and thoughtful review of my book Warranted Christian Belief ( WCB ). His account of the book's mainline of argument is accurate as far as it goes; it does contain an important lacuna, however. The focus of the book is twofold; it is aimed in two directions. First, just as Swinburne says, I argue that there are no plausible de iure objections to Christian belief that are independent of de facto…
Swinburne and Plantinga on internal rationality
I took it that the definitions Swinburne quotes imply that all of a person's basic beliefs are (privately) rational; Swinburne demurs. It still seems to me that these definitions have this consequence. Let me briefly explain why. According to Swinburne, a person's evidence consists of his basic beliefs, weighted by his confidence in them. So presumably we are to think of S's evidence as the set of the beliefs he takes in the basic way, together w…
Warranted Christian Belief
In this book's companion volumes (Warrant: The Current Debate and Warrant and Proper Function), I examined the nature of epistemic warrant, that quantity, enough of which distinguishes knowledge from mere true belief; in this book, I turn to the question of whether Christian belief can be justified, rational, and warranted. Among objections to Christian belief, we can distinguish between de facto objections and de jure objections, i.e., between t…
On Heresy, Mind, and Truth
Warranted Christian Belief
Two (or More) Kinds Of Scripture Scholarship
Warrant
Warrant
Journal Article Book Reviews Get access Warrant: the Current Debate. By Alvin Plantinga. (Oxford UP, 1993. Pp. xii + 228. Price £32.50 h / b , £15.95 p / b .)Warrant and Proper Function. By Alvin Plantinga. ( Oxford UP, 1993. Pp. xii + 243. Price £32.50 h / b , £15.95 p / b) Christopher Hookway Christopher Hookway The University of Birmingham Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The Philosophical Quarterly, Vol…
Reliabilism, Analyses and Defeaters
I'm delighted to reply to William Alston, Carl Ginet, Matthias Steup, Richard Swinburne, and James Taylor; their challenging comments on Warrant: the Current Debate (hereafter WCD) and Warrant and Proper Function (WPF) raise issues of great interest and push the discussion well beyond where I left it. My aim is not to defend myself in a doggedly self-exculpatory fashion, but to try to make some further progress-sometimes by amending what I said, …
Response to Warrant
On existentialism
Positive Epistemic Status and Proper Function
Knowledge, so we thought for untold generations,1 is justified true belief; and even in this enlightened post-Gettier era, we still think justification and knowledge intimately related. But what sort of thing is this alleged 'justification'? How shall we understand it? Contemporary epistemologists don't often focus attention on the nature of epistemic justification (although they often ask under what conditions a given belief has it); and when th…
Two Concepts of Modality
Necessary and contingent propositions, objects with accidental and essential properties, possible worlds, individual essences-these are the phenomena of modality. I shall contrast two opposed conceptions of modal phenomena1; one of them, as I see it, is properly thought of as modal realism; the other is modal reductionism. 'Modal realism', as I use the term, has nothing to do with whether certain sentences or propositions have truth values; it ha…
Kant's Objection to the Ontological Argument
The Prospects for Natural Theology
What is natural theology, and what is it for? As to what it is, for present purposes we may take it, very simply, to be the attempt to provide proofs or arguments for the existence of God. More exactly, it is the project of producing proofs or arguments for theism, the view (roughly speaking) that there exists an all-powerful, all-knowing, wholly good person who has created the world. Clearly there are many things one might hope to accomplish by …
Content and Natural Selection
Plantinga on Epistemic Warrant
Justification in the 20th Century
It would be colossal understatement to say that Anglo-American epistemology of this century has made much of the notion of epistemic justification. First, there is the widely celebrated true belief' (JTB) account or analysis of knowledge, an analysis we imbibed with our mothers milk. According to the inherited lore of the epistemological tribe, the JTB account enjoyed the status of epistemological orthodoxy until Edmund Gettier shattered it in 19…
World and Essence
On “Proper Basicality”
Evolution, Epiphenomenalism, Reductionism
Reliabilism, Analyses and Defeaters
I'm delighted to reply to William Alston, Carl Ginet, Matthias Steup, Richard Swinburne, and James Taylor; their challenging comments on Warrant: the Current Debate (hereafter WCD) and Warrant and Proper Function (WPF) raise issues of great interest and push the discussion well beyond where I left it. My aim is not to defend myself in a doggedly self-exculpatory fashion, but to try to make some further progress-sometimes by amending what I said, …
Response to Warrant
Epistemic Warrant as Proper Function
Proper and Improper Use of Cognitive Faculties
Does God Have a Nature
A Valid Ontological Argument
Kant's Objection to the Ontological Argument
The Existence of God
De Re et De Dicto
Anselm's Discovery
World and Essence
God and Other Minds
Journal Article Book Reviews Get access God and Other Minds : A study of the rational justification of belief in God. By Alvin Plantinga. (Cornell University Press; London : Oxford University Press. 1968. Pp. xi + 277. Price 81s) I. M. Crombie I. M. Crombie Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The Philosophical Quarterly, Volume 20, Issue 80, July 1970, Pages 312–313, https://doi.org/10.2307/2218439 Published: …
Philosophical Theology
The Ontological Argument
The Nature of Necessity
Journal Article Book Reviews Get access The Nature of Necessity. By Alvin Plantinga. (Oxford: Clarendon Press. 1974. Pp. x + 255. Price £4.50) Desmond Paul Henry Desmond Paul Henry Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The Philosophical Quarterly, Volume 25, Issue 99, April 1975, Pages 178–180, https://doi.org/10.2307/2217641 Published: 01 April 1975
Actualism and possible worlds
The Nature of Necessity
Does God Have a Nature
Does God Have a Nature
On existentialism
Two Concepts of Modality
Necessary and contingent propositions, objects with accidental and essential properties, possible worlds, individual essences-these are the phenomena of modality. I shall contrast two opposed conceptions of modal phenomena1; one of them, as I see it, is properly thought of as modal realism; the other is modal reductionism. 'Modal realism', as I use the term, has nothing to do with whether certain sentences or propositions have truth values; it ha…
Positive Epistemic Status and Proper Function
Knowledge, so we thought for untold generations,1 is justified true belief; and even in this enlightened post-Gettier era, we still think justification and knowledge intimately related. But what sort of thing is this alleged 'justification'? How shall we understand it? Contemporary epistemologists don't often focus attention on the nature of epistemic justification (although they often ask under what conditions a given belief has it); and when th…
On Christian Philosophy
Journal Article On Christian Philosophy Get access Alvin Plantinga Alvin Plantinga University of Notre Dame Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of the American Academy of Religion, Volume LVII, Issue 3, Fall 1989, Pages 617–621, https://doi.org/10.1093/jaarel/LVII.3.617 Published: 01 October 1989
Justification in the 20th Century
It would be colossal understatement to say that Anglo-American epistemology of this century has made much of the notion of epistemic justification. First, there is the widely celebrated true belief' (JTB) account or analysis of knowledge, an analysis we imbibed with our mothers milk. According to the inherited lore of the epistemological tribe, the JTB account enjoyed the status of epistemological orthodoxy until Edmund Gettier shattered it in 19…
The Prospects for Natural Theology
What is natural theology, and what is it for? As to what it is, for present purposes we may take it, very simply, to be the attempt to provide proofs or arguments for the existence of God. More exactly, it is the project of producing proofs or arguments for theism, the view (roughly speaking) that there exists an all-powerful, all-knowing, wholly good person who has created the world. Clearly there are many things one might hope to accomplish by …
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Augustinian Christian Philosophy
Journal Article Augustinian Christian Philosophy Get access Alvin Plantinga Alvin Plantinga University of Notre Dame Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic PubMed Google Scholar The Monist, Volume 75, Issue 3, 1 July 1992, Pages 291–320, https://doi.org/10.5840/monist199275319 Published: 08 December 2014
Warrant and Proper Function
In this book and in its companion volumes, Warrant: The Current Debate and Warranted Christian Belief, I examine the nature of epistemic warrant, that quantity enough of which distinguishes knowledge from mere true belief. In Warrant: The Current Debate, the first volume in this series, I considered some of the main contemporary views of warrant. In this book, the second in the series, I present my own account of warrant, arguing that the best wa…
Warrant
In this book and in its sequels, Warrant and Proper Function and Warranted Christian Belief, I examine the nature of epistemic warrant, that quantity, enough of which distinguishes knowledge from mere true belief. Contemporary epistemologists seldom focus attention on the nature of warrant; and when they do, they display deplorable diversity: some claim that what turns true belief into knowledge is a matter of epistemic dutifulness, others that i…
Proper Functionalism and Virtue Epistemology
Reflexions sur quelques aspects des deux volumes du traite d'Alvin Platinga sur la justification (La justification: vues actuelles et Justification et fonction propre).
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