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Alvin Plantinga is a male American philosopher born on November 15, 1932. His academic work spans philosophy, epistemology, computer science, psychology, and economics. He has authored 279 works, which have been cited 9,616 times, resulting in an h-index of 41. Notable publications include *The Free Will Defense*, *Essays in the Metaphysics of Modality*, *God, Freedom, and Evil*, and *Nature of Necessity*.
Plantinga is recognized in the American Academy Arts Sciences collection. His writings are associated with themes of science, Christianity, evolution, and Darwinism. He has been referenced by 696 other encyclopedia articles.
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Person · Open Library
- Works
- 38
Top works
- The free will defense
- Essays in the Metaphysics of Modality
- God, Freedom, and Evil
- Nature of Necessity, the. Clarendon Library of Logic and Philosophy
- Nature of Necessity
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Music · MusicBrainz
- Type
- Person
- Gender
- Male
- Origin
- United States
- Active from
- 1932-11-15
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Listeners · Last.fm
- Listeners
- 45
- Total plays
- 126
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Alvin Carl Plantinga (born 1932) is a contemporary American philosopher known for his work in epistemology, metaphysics, and the philosophy of religion. In 1980, Plantinga was described by Time magazine as "America's leading orthodox Protestant philosopher of God." <a href="https://www.last.fm/music/Alvin+Plantinga">Read more on Last.fm</a>
Academic profile · OpenAlex
- Works
- 279
- Cited by
- 9,616
Research areas
Most cited works
- Warrant and Proper Function1993 · 1,665 cit
- Warranted Christian Belief2000 · 1,225 cit
- The Nature of Necessity1978 · 812 cit
- Where the Conflict Really LiesScience, Religion, and Naturalism2011 · 469 cit
- Warrant: The Current Debate1993 · 409 cit
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Recent publications · Crossref
5 total works indexed
- The Norm of Reciprocity: A Preliminary Statement
· 1960 · cited 8,132x
- Optimal Medical Therapy with or without PCI for Stable Coronary Disease
· 2007 · cited 3,838x
- Machine Learning in Medicine
· 2019 · cited 3,832x
- Large language models encode clinical knowledge
· 2023 · cited 3,341x
- The repertoire of mutational signatures in human cancer
· 2020 · cited 3,331x
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Quotes
- “To show that there are natural processes that produce religious belief does nothing, so far, to discredit it; perhaps God designed us in such a way that it is by virtue of those processes that we come to have knowledge of him.”
- “Like I say, you gotta have a PhD in engineering just to use your thermostat. And that seems over the top to me. [...] It’s not real nice, you know. If you live in Arizona, you get used to it, but we don’t. And it’s right after a really cold, kind of wet, spring. So we weren’t really up for that at all. [...] You know, there are worse things. I mean, if it were like, say, ten below zero, that would be worse.”
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Key facts
- Born
- Alvin Carl Plantinga , ( 1932-11-15 ) November 15, 1932 (age 93) , Ann Arbor, Michigan , U.S.
- Spouse
- Kathleen De Boer ( married</span>"}]]}'>m. 1955 )
- Awards
- Rescher Prize (2012) Templeton Prize (2017)
- Education
- Harvard University Calvin University ( BA ) University of Michigan ( MA ) Yale University ( PhD )
- Doctoral advisor
- Paul Weiss
- Era
- 20th-century philosophy
- Region
- Western philosophy
- School
- Analytic
- Institutions
- Wayne State University Calvin University University of Notre Dame
- Main interests
- Epistemology metaphysics philosophy of religion logic modal logic philosophy of science natural theology
- Notable works
- God and Other Minds (1967) The Nature of Necessity (1974) Warranted Christian Belief (2000)
- Notable ideas
- Reformed epistemology Free-will defense Modal ontological argument Proper functionalism Evolutionary argument against naturalism Warrant Modal metaphysics Divine attributes Internalism and externalism
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- human
- Given name
- Alvin
- Gender
- male
- Citizenship
- United States
- Place of birth
- Ann Arbor
- Occupation
- philosopher
- Employer
- Calvin University
- Languages spoken
- English language
- Religion
- Protestantism
- Award
- Templeton Prize
- Academic degree
- Doctor of Philosophy
- Field of work
- analytic philosophy
- Eye colour
- blue
- Movement
- Western philosophy
- Official website
- philosophy.nd.edu/people/alvin-plantinga
- Image
- AlvinPlantinga.JPG
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- date of birth
- 1932-11-15
- Commons category
- Alvin Plantinga
- influenced by
- John Calvin
- facial hair
- chin curtain
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- WikiProject Mathematics
- name in native language
- Alvin Carl Plantinga
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Encyclopedic overview
Alvin Carl Plantinga (born November 15, 1932) is an American analytic philosopher and theologian 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. He later returned to Calvin University to become the inaugural holder of the Jellema Chair in Philosophy.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Alvin Plantinga” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.