Alvin Plantinga

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Works

279

Cited by

9,616

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5 total works indexed

1. The Norm of Reciprocity: A Preliminary Statement

   · 1960 · cited 8,044x

2. Optimal Medical Therapy with or without PCI for Stable Coronary Disease

   · 2007 · cited 3,817x

3. Machine Learning in Medicine

   · 2019 · cited 3,516x

4. The repertoire of mutational signatures in human cancer

   · 2020 · cited 3,224x

5. Guidelines for the use and interpretation of assays for monitoring autophagy

   · 2012 · cited 2,919x

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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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Official website

philosophy.nd.edu/people/alvin-plantinga

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