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- Over his 50 years of philosophical work, Plantinga broke new ground in philosophy of religion. He is especially noted for his work on the problem of evil and vigorous defenses of the rationality of belief in God. He received the 2017 Templeton Prize at a ceremony on Sunday, September 24 at The Field Museum James Simpson Theatre in Chicago.
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Plantinga's contribution stated that when the issue of a comprehensive doctrine of freedom is added to the discussion of the goodness of God and the omnipotence of God then it is not possible to exclude the presence of evil in the world after introducing freedom into the discussion.
His contributions returned the exploration of religious belief to the philosophical agenda. Plantinga is the John A. O'Brien Professor of Philosophy Emeritus at the University of Notre Dame, where he taught for 28 years until retiring in 2010.
- Metaphysics
- Epistemology
- Philosophy of Religion
- Bibliography
Plantinga's most influential work in metaphysics has focused primarily on the metaphysics of modality. In The Nature of Necessity (1974), as well as in various papers, a central theme is the exposition and defense of a realist and actualist construal of possible worlds and modal properties. On his view, the standard possible worlds semantics for mo...
Plantinga's major works in epistemology are the volumes that comprise his Warrant trilogy (1993a, 1993b, 2000). Warrant, according to Plantinga, is that property or quantity that distinguishes knowledge from mere true belief. The main goals of the Warrantbooks are to identify the necessary and sufficient conditions for warrant, and to defend an aff...
Plantinga's work in the philosophy of religion has focused on what is sometimes referred to as "negative apologetics": the task of showing that objections to religious belief are unsuccessful. Thus, to take just a few examples, Plantinga has argued that the proposition that God exists is logically consistent with the proposition that evil exists; t...
primary works
God and Other Minds. Ithaca, NY: Cornell UniversityPress, 1967. The Nature of Necessity. New York: Clarendon Press, 1974. God, Freedom, and Evil. Grand Rapids, MI: Eerdmans, 1977. "Reason and Belief in God." In Faith and Rationality, edited by Alvin Plantinga and Nicholas Wolterstorff, 16–93. Notre Dame: University of Notre Dame Press. 1983. Warrant: The Current Debate. New York: Oxford UniversityPress, 1993a. Warrant and Proper Function. New York: Oxford UniversityPress, 1993b. "Advice to Ch...
secondary works
Tomberlin, James, and Peter van Inwagen, eds. Alvin Plantinga. Dordrecht, Netherlands: D. Reidel, 1985. Michael C. Rea (2005)
Dec 18, 2017 · “Alvin Plantinga recognized that not only did religious belief not conflict with serious philosophical work, but that it could make crucial contributions to addressing perennial problems in philosophy.”
Apr 25, 2017 · Alvin Plantinga, an American scholar whose rigorous writings over a half century have made theism—the belief in a divine reality or god—a serious option within academic philosophy, was announced today as the 2017 Templeton Prize Laureate.
The undergraduate Plantinga found Harvard to be a most impressive and enjoyable place. He also found it to be the locus of his first real spiritual challenge. For the first time he came across serious non-Christian thought ‘in the flesh’, and like many undergraduates found his faith shaken.
Sep 24, 2017 · The story of how philosopher Alvin Plantinga, winner of the 2017 Templeton Prize, put God back on the agenda for academic philosophy. Featuring his college classmate and eminent Yale...
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