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Advice to Christian Philosophers
Christian Philosophy, 1984In this foundational essay for recent Christian philosophy, Alvin Plantinga offers “advice” specifically to Christian philosophers and, by extension, to any religious philosophers who wish to find a way to integrate their faith with their philosophical ...
Alvin Plantinga
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2019
Alvin Plantinga è uno dei più importanti metafisici e filosofi della religione viventi. In questo profilo, dopo aver brevemente narrato la sua formazione intellettuale, considererò alcuni aspetti del suo pensiero: la teoria di Plantinga dei mondi possibili; la sua teoria della garanzia epistemica delle credenze, fondata sul concetto di funzione propria;
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Alvin Plantinga è uno dei più importanti metafisici e filosofi della religione viventi. In questo profilo, dopo aver brevemente narrato la sua formazione intellettuale, considererò alcuni aspetti del suo pensiero: la teoria di Plantinga dei mondi possibili; la sua teoria della garanzia epistemica delle credenze, fondata sul concetto di funzione propria;
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The SAGE Encyclopedia of the Sociology of Religion, 2020
Modern western empirical science has surely been the most impressive intellectual development since the 16 th century. Religion, of course, has been around for much longer, and is presently flourishing, perhaps as never before. (True, there is the thesis
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Modern western empirical science has surely been the most impressive intellectual development since the 16 th century. Religion, of course, has been around for much longer, and is presently flourishing, perhaps as never before. (True, there is the thesis
Alvin Plantinga
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On fideism and Alvin Plantinga
International Journal for Philosophy of Religion, 1988Recently Terence Penelhum has suggested, in God and Skepticism, that Alvin Plantinga's critique of classical foundationalism is a version of fideism. It is a fideism that exemplifies itself in what Penelhum refers to as a "permissive parity argument." Plantinga, however, rejects any label of fideism, whether it be of an extreme or moderate variety.1 He
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Metodologia nauk, 2019
sense — non-natural explanations, such as creationism or so-called intelligent design theory, are regarded as unscientific. The article analyzes the following questions: 1) Is it possible — contrary to methodological naturalism — to detect scientifically
Alvin Plantinga
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sense — non-natural explanations, such as creationism or so-called intelligent design theory, are regarded as unscientific. The article analyzes the following questions: 1) Is it possible — contrary to methodological naturalism — to detect scientifically
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Alvin Plantinga on the ontological argument
International Journal for Philosophy of Religion, 2008By taking ‘existence in reality’ to be a great-making property and ‘God’ to be the greatest possible being, Plantinga skillfully presents Anselm’s ontological argument. However, since he proves God’s existence by virtue of a premise, “God (a maximally great being) is a possible being”, that is true only if God actually exists; his argument begs the ...
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Oxford Scholarship Online, 2018
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.
Alvin Plantinga
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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.
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Alvin Plantinga and natural theology
International Journal for Philosophy of Religion, 1991Alvin Plantinga tells the story about Bertrand Russell who was once asked how he would reply "if, after dying, he were brought into the presence of God and asked why he had not been a believer. Russell's reply: 'I'd say "Not enough evidence, God! Not enough evidence!
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