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Noûs, 1998
Theists believe that God exists and is justified in permitting El and E2. Since evil is intrinsically bad, what justifies God in permitting El and E2 is something else. To simplify matters we will suppose here that the something else is a good state of affairs (perhaps a conjunctive state of affairs) that God brings about and could bring about only by ...
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Theists believe that God exists and is justified in permitting El and E2. Since evil is intrinsically bad, what justifies God in permitting El and E2 is something else. To simplify matters we will suppose here that the something else is a good state of affairs (perhaps a conjunctive state of affairs) that God brings about and could bring about only by ...
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2007
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.
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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.
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Ockham, Plantinga and the row of Ants
2018For millennia, philosophers have discussed whether divine omniscience is compatible with human freedom – conceived of in a libertarian way – or not. If libertarianism is true,some actions are free and no action is free unless it is within the agent’s power to act otherwise.
FEDRIGA, RICCARDO, Bottani, Andrea
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Plantinga and Favorable Mini-Environments
Synthese, 2003In response to a collection of essays in Jonathan Kvanvig's (1996) Warrant in Contemporary Epistemology: Essays in Honor of Plantinga's Theory of Knowledge, Alvin Plantinga notices that certain Gettier-style examples undermine his (1993b) canonical account of epistemic warrant as delineated in Warrant and Proper Function.
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Plantinga's Defence of Serious Actualism
Analysis, 1989IN a series of papers ([2], [3], [4]) Alvin Plantinga has argued for serious actualism, the thesis that necessarily everything is such that necessarily if it has a property, then it exists. In this paper I argue that Plantinga's latest argument for serious actualism is flawed in two respects.
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Plantinga on free will and evil
Religious Studies, 1979Some philosophers have argued that a world created by an omnipotent, omniscient and perfectly good being would not contain evil. Since the world contains evil in fact, it follows (so it is claimed) that the world was not created by an omnipotent, omniscient and perfectly good being. One of the replies frequently given to this argument is that the world
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Plantinga and probabilistic atheism
International Journal for Philosophy of Religion, 1991Plantinga underestimates the prospects for probabilistic atheism. He employs a flawed mathematical rendition of the atheist's crucial claim, (1) and he misunderstands the utility (1) would have for the atheist.
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Plantinga and the Ontological Argument
1985By following the admirable advice embodied in the above remarks. Alvin Plantinga has produced an original and important study of the ontological argument. Plantinga’s treatment is marked by an intriguing turn — in God and Other Minds [12] he examines a number of variants of the argument and concludes that they arc one and all unsuccessful; but in his ...
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