Alvin Carl Plantinga[a] (born November 15, 1932) is an American analytic philosopher who works primarily in the fields of philosophy of religion, epistemology (particularly on issues involving epistemic justification), and logic.
From 1963 to 1982, Plantinga taught at Calvin University before accepting an appointment as the John A. O'Brien Professor of Philosophy at the University of Notre Dame.[2] He later returned to Calvin University to become the inaugural holder of the Jellema Chair in Philosophy.[3]
A prominent Christian philosopher, Plantinga served as president of the Society of Christian Philosophers from 1983 to 1986. He has delivered the Gifford Lectures twice and was described by Time magazine as "America's leading orthodox Protestant philosopher of God".[4] In 2014, Plantinga was the 30th most-cited contemporary author in the Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy.[5] A fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, he was awarded the Templeton Prize in 2017.[6]
Some of Plantinga's most influential works include God and Other Minds (1967), The Nature of Necessity (1974), and a trilogy of books on epistemology, culminating in Warranted Christian Belief (2000) that was simplified in Knowledge and Christian Belief (2015).[7]
^"Emeritae and Emeriti // Department of Philosophy // University of Notre Dame". Archived from the original on 2013-08-31.
^"The 267 Most-Cited Contemporary Authors in the Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy". Retrieved 2020-06-27.
^"Templeton Prize – Current Winner". templetonprize.org. Archived from the original on 2009-03-19. Retrieved 2017-07-27.
^"Reformed Epistemology". The Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy.
Cite error: There are <ref group=lower-alpha> tags or {{efn}} templates on this page, but the references will not show without a {{reflist|group=lower-alpha}} template or {{notelist}} template (see the help page).
Alvin Carl Plantinga (born November 15, 1932) is an American analytic philosopher who works primarily in the fields of philosophy of religion, epistemology...
Religion, published in 1976, and AlvinPlantinga'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; AlvinPlantinga challenged this argument and proposed an alternative, based on modal...
philosophical naturalism simultaneously. The argument was first proposed by AlvinPlantinga in 1993 and "raises issues of interest to epistemologists, philosophers...
"to set the bar for 'naturalism' higher." Philosopher and theologian AlvinPlantinga, a well-known critic of naturalism in general, comments: "Naturalism...
contemporary philosophers of religion who defended theism include AlvinPlantinga, Yujin Nagasawa, John Hick, Richard Swinburne, and William Lane Craig...
version is best represented by AlvinPlantinga. Plantinga offers a free will defense, instead of a theodicy. Plantinga begins with the Leibnizian supposition...
The logic of Augustine's approach has been adapted by AlvinPlantinga, among others. Plantinga's adapted Augustinian theodicy, the free will defence –...
Plantinga is a surname. Notable people with the surname include: AlvinPlantinga (born 1932), American analytic philosopher Cornelius Plantinga (born...
Seminary in 1982. He is the brother of philosopher AlvinPlantinga and musicologist Leon Plantinga. Plantinga has written several books, including Not the Way...
contemporary Molinists include William Lane Craig, Alfred Freddoso, AlvinPlantinga, Michael Bergmann, Thomas Flint, Kenneth Keathley, Dave Armstrong,...
Warranted Christian Belief is a book written by AlvinPlantinga and published in 2000 (Oxford University Press). It constitutes, after Warrant: The Current...
(Oxford University Press 2010) (ISBN 0-199-73842-4), co-authored with AlvinPlantinga Intuition Pumps and Other Tools for Thinking (W. W. Norton & Company...
suggestion that we must "deny knowledge in order to make room for faith". AlvinPlantinga defines "fideism" as "the exclusive or basic reliance upon faith alone...
Other Minds is a 1967 book by the American philosopher of religion AlvinPlantinga which re-kindled philosophical debate on the existence of God in Anglo-American...
anthropodicy attempts to justify the goodness of humanity. As defined by AlvinPlantinga, theodicy is the "answer to the question of why God permits evil"....
emeritus faculty. He is the brother of philosopher AlvinPlantinga and theologian Cornelius Plantinga. He is the author of Beethoven's Concertos: History...
those of the reformed epistemologists like AlvinPlantinga, William Alston, and Nicholas Wolterstorff. Plantinga was awarded the Templeton Prize in 2017...
knowledge and justification have included Alvin Goldman, Marshall Swain, Kent Bach and more recently, AlvinPlantinga. Goldman's article "A Causal Theory of...
agents who desire truth but use poorly suited methods to pursue it. AlvinPlantinga offers another theory of knowledge closely related to virtue epistemology...
His philosophical colleagues at Wayne State included, among others, AlvinPlantinga and Héctor-Neri Castaneda. In the academic year of 1964–65, he held...
and philosophy of education. In Faith and Rationality, Wolterstorff, AlvinPlantinga, and William Alston developed and expanded upon a view of religious...
Philosophy". Plantinga, Alvin. "Does God Have a Nature?" in Plantinga, Alvin, and James F. Sennett. 1998. The analytic theist: an AlvinPlantinga reader. Grand...
philosophy of religion from the early 1970s onwards. Together with AlvinPlantinga, Nicholas Wolterstorff, Robert Adams, and Michael L. Peterson, Alston...
Global Information