Alvin Plantinga | |
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 Plantinga in 2004 | |
| Born | Alvin Carl Plantinga November 15, 1932 Ann Arbor, Michigan, U.S. |
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Kathleen De Boer (m. 1955) |
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| Era | 20th-century philosophy |
| Region | Western philosophy |
| School | Analytic |
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| Doctoral advisor | Paul Weiss |
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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.
From 1963 to 1982, Plantinga taught at Calvin University before accepting an appointment as the John A. O'Brien Professor of Philosophy at the University of Notre Dame.[2] He later returned to Calvin University to become the inaugural holder of the Jellema Chair in Philosophy.[3]
A prominent Christian philosopher, Plantinga served as president of the Society of Christian Philosophers from 1983 to 1986. He has delivered the Gifford Lectures twice and was described by Time magazine as "America's leading orthodox Protestant philosopher of God".[4] In 2014, Plantinga was the 30th most-cited contemporary author in the Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy.[5] A fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, he was awarded the Templeton Prize in 2017.
Some of Plantinga's most influential works include God and Other Minds (1967), The Nature of Necessity (1974), and a trilogy of books on epistemology, culminating in Warranted Christian Belief (2000) that was simplified in Knowledge and Christian Belief (2015).[6]
- ^ Christian, Evolutionist, or Both? on YouTube
- ^ "Alvin Plantinga". veritas-ucsb.org.
- ^ "Plantinga Wins Prestigious Rescher Prize". calvin.edu.
- ^ "Emeritae and Emeriti // Department of Philosophy // University of Notre Dame". Archived from the original on 2013-08-31.
- ^ "The 267 Most-Cited Contemporary Authors in the Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy". Retrieved 2020-06-27.
- ^ "Reformed Epistemology". The Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy.
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