Alvin Plantinga

John A. O'Brien Professor of Philosophy

Contact Information

Mailing Address:
Department of Philosophy
University of Notre Dame
100 Malloy Hall
Notre Dame, IN 46556

Phone: (574) 631-6254
E-Mail: plantinga.1@nd.edu

Office: 420 Malloy Hall
Office Hours: By Appointment

Curriculum Vitae

Education:

Ph.D., Yale.

Areas of Interest:

Epistemology, Metaphysics, Philosophy of Religion.

Selected Bibliography

Recent Articles:

• "Methodological Naturalism?" in Facets of Faith and Science, ed. J. van der Meer (1995)
• "Justification in the Twentieth Century" in Philosophy and Phenomenological Research, vol. L, Supplement, 45-71 (Fall 1990)
• "Justification and Theism," Faith and Philosophy (1987)
• "Two Concepts of Modality: Modal Realism and Modal Reductionism," in Philosophical Perspectives, I, Metaphysics ed. James Tomberlin (1987)
• "Advice to Christian Philosophers," Faith and Philosophy (1984)
• "Reason and Belief in God," Faith and Rationality, ed. by A. Plantinga and N. Wolterstorff (1983)
• "How to be an Anti-Realist," Proceedings of the American Philosophical Association (1982)

Books:

• Warranted Christian Belief (2000)
• Warrant and Proper Function (1993)
• Warrant: the Current Debate (1993)
• Does God Have a Nature? (1980)
• God, Freedom & Evil (1974)
• The Nature of Necessity (1974)
• God and Other Minds (1967)

Online Papers :

• “Content and Natural Selection”, Philosophy and Phenomenological Research, forthcoming.
• "Religion and Science," Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy, 2007.
• "Against Materialism," in Faith and Philosophy, 23:1 (January 2006), 3-32.
• "Supralapsarianism or 'O Felix Culpa' " in Christian Faith and the Problem of Evil, ed. Peter van Inwagen (Grand Rapids, MI: Eerdmans, 2004), 1-25.
• "Probability and Defeaters", Pacific Philosophical Quarterly, 84(3), 291-298, September 2003.
• "Two (or More) Kinds of Scripture Scholarship", Modern Theology, 14:2, April 1998, pp. 243-78.
• "Methodological Naturalism?", Facets of Faith and Science, vol. 1, ed. J. van der Meer (Lanham, MA: University Press of America, 1996), pp. 177-221.
• How to be an Anti-Realist, Proceedings and Addresses of the American Philosophical Association, Vol. 56, No. 1 (Sep., 1982),
  pp. 47-70
• Reason and Belief in God,Faith and Rationality, ed. A. Plantinga and N. Wolterstorff (Eerdmans, 1983)
• Advice to Christian Philosophers, published by the University of Notre Dame and in Faith and Philosophy I, 3 (July, 1984)
• Two Concepts of Modality: Modal Realism and Modal Reductionism, in Philosophical Perspectives, I, Metaphysics, ed. James Tomberlin (Atascadero: Ridgeview Publishing Co., 1987); reprinted in Essays in the Metaphysics of Modality, ed. Matthew Davidson (New York: Oxford Univ. Press, 2003)
• "An Evolutionary Argument Against Naturalism", Logos 12 (1991). Online (audio) at: http://www.hisdefense.org/OnlineLectures/tabid/136/Default.aspx
• Justification and Theism, Faith and Philosophy, (Vol. 4, No. 4, Oct. 1987), pp. 403-426
• Justification in the Twentieth Century, Philosophy and Phenomenological Research, Vol. L, Supplement (Fall, 1990), 45-71