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P1:JZP 0521855310pre CUNY806B/Baker 0521855310 April30,2007 7:39 This page intentionally left blank ii P1:JZP 0521855310pre CUNY806B/Baker 0521855310 April30,2007 7:39 Alvin Plantinga Few thinkers have had as much impact on contemporary philosophy as has Alvin Plantinga. The work of this quintessential analytic philosopher has in manyrespectssetthetoneforthedebateinthefieldsofmodalmetaphysicsand epistemology, and he is arguably the most important philosopher of religion of our time. In this volume, a distinguished team of today’s leading philoso- phersaddressthecentralaspectsofPlantinga’sphilosophy–hisviewsonnat- ural 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, his argument for warranted Christian belief, his response to the challenge of religiouspluralism,andhisrecentworkonmind-bodydualism.Alsoincluded isanappendixcontainingPlantinga’softenreferredto,butpreviouslyunpub- lished, lecture notes entitled “Two Dozen (or so) Theistic Arguments,” with asubstantialprefacetotheappendixwrittenbyPlantingaspecificallyforthis volume. Deane-PeterBakerisaSeniorLecturerintheSchoolofPhilosophyandEthics attheUniversityofKwaZulu-Natal(SouthAfrica).HeistheauthorofTayloring ReformedEpistemology:CharlesTaylor,AlvinPlantingaandtheDeJureChallenge toChristianBelief. i P1:JZP 0521855310pre CUNY806B/Baker 0521855310 April30,2007 7:39 ii P1:JZP 0521855310pre CUNY806B/Baker 0521855310 April30,2007 7:39 Contemporary Philosophy in Focus ContemporaryPhilosophyinFocusoffersaseriesofintroductoryvolumes tomanyofthedominantphilosophicalthinkersofthecurrentage.Eachvol- umeconsistsofnewlycommissionedessaysthatcovermajorcontributionsof apreeminentphilosopherinasystematicandaccessiblemanner.Comparable inscopeandrationaletothehighlysuccessfulseriesCambridgeCompanions to Philosophy, the volumes do not presuppose that readers are already inti- matelyfamiliarwiththedetailsofeachphilosopher’swork.Theythuscombine expositionandcriticalanalysisinamannerthatwillappealtostudentsofphi- losophy and to professionals as well as to students across the humanities and socialsciences. forthcomingvolumes: JerryFodoreditedbyTimCrane SaulKripkeeditedbyAlanBerger DavidLewiseditedbyTheodoreSiderandDeanZimmermann BernardWilliamseditedbyAlanThomas publishedvolumes: StanleyCavelleditedbyRichardEldridge PaulChurchlandeditedbyBrianKeeley DonaldDavidsoneditedbyKirkLudwig DanielDennetteditedbyAndrewBrookandDonRoss RonaldDworkineditedbyArthurRipstein ThomasKuhneditedbyThomasNickles AlasdairMacIntyreeditedbyMarkMurphy RichardRortyeditedbyCharlesGuignonandDavidHiley JohnSearleeditedbyBarrySmith CharlesTayloreditedbyRuthAbbey iii P1:JZP 0521855310pre CUNY806B/Baker 0521855310 April30,2007 7:39 iv P1:JZP 0521855310pre CUNY806B/Baker 0521855310 April30,2007 7:39 Alvin Plantinga Edited by DEANE-PETER BAKER UniversityofKwaZulu-Natal v CAMBRIDGEUNIVERSITYPRESS Cambridge, New York, Melbourne, Madrid, Cape Town, Singapore, São Paulo Cambridge University Press The Edinburgh Building, Cambridge CB28RU, UK Published in the United States of America by Cambridge University Press, New York www.cambridge.org Information on this title: www.cambridge.org/9780521855310 © Cambridge University Press 2007 This publication is in copyright. Subject to statutory exception and to the provision of relevant collective licensing agreements, no reproduction of any part may take place without the written permission of Cambridge University Press. First published in print format 2007 ISBN-13 978-0-511-28940-8 eBook (EBL) ISBN-10 0-511-28940-5 eBook (EBL) ISBN-13 978-0-521-85531-0 hardback ISBN-10 0-521-85531-4 hardback ISBN-13 978-0-521-67143-9 paperback ISBN-10 0-521-67143-4 paperback Cambridge University Press has no responsibility for the persistence or accuracy of urls for external or third-party internet websites referred to in this publication, and does not guarantee that any content on such websites is, or will remain, accurate or appropriate. P1:JZP 0521855310pre CUNY806B/Baker 0521855310 April30,2007 7:39 Contents Contributors page ix Acknowledgements xi Introduction:AlvinPlantinga,God’sPhilosopher 1 deane-peterbaker 1 NaturalTheology 15 grahamoppy 2 EvilandAlvinPlantinga 48 richardm.gale 3 TheModalMetaphysicsofAlvinPlantinga 71 johndivers 4 NaturalTheologyandNaturalistAtheology:Plantinga’s EvolutionaryArgumentAgainstNaturalism 93 ernestsosa 5 TwoApproachestoEpistemicDefeat 107 jonathankvanvig 6 Plantinga’sModelofWarrantedChristianBelief 125 jamesbeilby 7 PluralismandProperFunction 166 kellyjamesclark 8 Plantinga’sReplacementArgument 188 petervaninwagen vii P1:JZP 0521855310pre CUNY806B/Baker 0521855310 April30,2007 7:39 viii Contents Appendix:TwoDozen(orso)TheisticArguments 203 alvinplantinga SelectBibliography 229 Index 231
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