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Also known as Alvin Carl Plantinga

American Christian philosopher

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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

Tags

sciencechristianevolutionphilosophydarwinsim

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>

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Academic profile · OpenAlex

41h-index
Works
279
Cited by
9,616

Research areas

PhilosophyEpistemologyComputer sciencePsychologyEconomics

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Recent publications · Crossref

5 total works indexed

  1. The Norm of Reciprocity: A Preliminary Statement

    · 1960 · cited 8,132x

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

    · 2007 · cited 3,838x

  3. Machine Learning in Medicine

    · 2019 · cited 3,832x

  4. Large language models encode clinical knowledge

    · 2023 · cited 3,341x

  5. 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
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Given name
Alvin
Gender
male
Citizenship
United States
Place of birth
Ann Arbor
Occupation
philosopher
Languages spoken
English language
Academic degree
Doctor of Philosophy
Field of work
analytic philosophy
Eye colour
blue
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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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.

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