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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.
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Alvin Plantinga was born in Ann Arbor, Michigan. Raised in the Christian Reformed Church, he has theological roots in the Dutch Reformed tradition. As the son of a philosophy and psychology professor, Plantinga evidenced a knack for and interest in philosophy early on.1 Plantinga studied philosophy at Harvard, Calvin College, the University of Mich...
In God and Other Minds(1967), Plantinga argues that since there are no successful arguments for the existence of other minds, yet we all believe such things, and rationally so, there need not be successful arguments for God’s existence (who himself is, at least, another Mind) for us rationally to believe in him. The development of this argument too...
In Warranted Christian Belief, Plantinga first wants to show theism to be a rationally held belief and then from there to argue that Christiantheism is also itself rationally held, even if one has no evidence for such. In this volume, Plantinga sets out to answer the question, “Is Christian belief intellectually acceptable?” In attempting to answer...
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.
May 24, 2023 · Who Is Alvin Plantinga? Alvin Plantinga is one of contemporary Christian philosophy’s most recognized and cited authors. He has spent five decades teaching, writing, and crafting philosophical arguments from a Christian worldview.
PLANTINGA, ALVIN (1932 –) Born in Ann Arbor, Michigan, Alvin Plantinga is one of the most important and influential philosophers of the twentieth and early twenty-first centuries. His publications range over a wide variety of fields, but his most enduring contributions have been in metaphysics, epistemology, and, especially, the philosophy of ...
Dec 18, 2017 · Plantinga, who spent his career as a Christian philosopher in long and productive teaching stints at his alma mater, Calvin College in Grand Rapids, Mich., and at the University of Notre Dame in South Bend, Ind., joins the roster of such distinguished and diverse Templeton Prize laureates as Mother Teresa, Archbishop Desmond Tutu, Rabbi Lord Jon...
Sep 23, 2017 · Alvin Plantinga is an American philosopher whose rigorous scholarship over a half century has made theism – the belief in a divine reality or god – a serious option within the academy.
