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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.
Alvin Plantinga
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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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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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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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2018
The purpose of this study is to examine the dominant view in the contemporary analytic philosophy of religion that: Alvin Plantinga's Free Will Defense is successful and John L. Mackie s Logical Problem of Evil is outdated. Therefore, this study explores all the relevant works of these philosophers and selectively the majority of closely related ...
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The purpose of this study is to examine the dominant view in the contemporary analytic philosophy of religion that: Alvin Plantinga's Free Will Defense is successful and John L. Mackie s Logical Problem of Evil is outdated. Therefore, this study explores all the relevant works of these philosophers and selectively the majority of closely related ...
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Alvin Plantinga's Warranted Christian Belief
Noûs, 2003Book reviewed in this article:Alvin Plantinga, Warranted Christian ...
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