Alvin Plantinga

by Edited by Deane-Peter Baker

• ISBN13: 9780521855310
• ISBN10: 0521855314
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2007-06-18
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Summary

Few thinkers have had as much impact on contemporary philosophy as has Alvin Plantinga. The work of this quintessential analytic philosopher has in many respects set the tone for the debate in the fields of modal metaphysics and epistemology and he is arguably the most important philosopher of religion of our time. In this volume, a distinguished team of today's leading philosophers address the central aspects of Plantinga's philosophy - his views on natural theology; his responses to the problem of evil; his contributions to the field of modal metaphysics; the controversial evolutionary argument against naturalism; his model of epistemic warrant and his view of epistemic defeat; and his recent work on mind-body dualism. Also included is an appendix containing Plantinga's often referred to, but previously unpublished, lecture notes entitled 'Two Dozen (or so) Theistic Arguments', with a substantial preface to the appendix written by Plantinga specifically for this volume.

Table of Contents

Contributors	p. ix
Acknowledgements	p. xi
Introduction: Alvin Plantinga, God's Philosopher	p. 1
Natural Theology	p. 15
Evil and Alvin Plantinga	p. 48
The Modal Metaphysics of Alvin Plantinga	p. 71
Natural Theology and Naturalist Atheology: Plantinga's Evolutionary Argument Against Naturalism	p. 93
Two Approaches to Epistemic Defeat	p. 107
Plantinga's Model of Warranted Christian Belief	p. 125
Pluralism and Proper Function	p. 166
Plantinga's Replacement Argument	p. 188
Two Dozen (or so) Theistic Arguments	p. 203
Select Bibliography	p. 229
Index	p. 231
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