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EDUCATION Plantinga won a scholarship to Harvard University , but left in 1951 to study at Calvin College (Grand Rapids), where William Harry Jellema was teaching philosophy. Following his time at Calvin, Plantinga studied at the University Of Michigan from 1954-1955, alongside such future luminaries as William Alston , William Frankena and Nancy Cartwright . He received his doctorate from Yale University (1955-1958). He began teaching at Wayne State University , then spent almost 20 years at Calvin College before moving to the University Of Notre Dame . PHILOSOPHICAL VIEWS He is best known for:
In 1993 Plantinga's first two volumes of an , BonJour , Alston , Goldman and others). In the second book, ''Warrant and Proper Function'', he introduces the notion of warrant as an alternative to evidence and goes deeper into topics like self-knowledge, memories, perception, and probability. In 2000, the third volume, ''Warranted Christian belief'', was published. Plantinga expands his focus of warrant from strictly epistemological issues to examine whether theistic belief can enjoy warrant. He argues that this is plausible. Argument that evolutionary naturalism is incoherent Plantinga has argued that Evolution ary Naturalism is Incoherent {Link without Title} . To this end, he quotes Darwin as follows: Plantinga's argument contends that Natural Selection , as it is currently understood, is not thought to produce in Organism s the ability to reliably Perceive the External World — let alone construct accurate Cosmologies . He quotes contemporary Philosopher Of Mind and philosophical naturalist Patricia Churchland to buttress this claim. Since according to philosophical naturalism, the theory of philosophical naturalism itself was conceived by evolved human beings, Plantinga continues, it is highly unlikely to be an accurate perception of the external world. {Link without Title} Theistic approaches, whether evolutionary or otherwise, would not suffer the same fate. The view that naturalism undercuts its own truth claims was also argued by C. S. Lewis in the third chapter of his book '' Miracles ''. BIBLIOGRAPHY Works by Plantinga
A full bibliography of writings published before 1985 can be found in "Bibliograpy of Alvin Plantinga", James E. Tomberlin and Peter Van Inwagen (eds) ''Alvin Plantinga'', Dordrecht: Reidel, 1985, pp. 399-410. Representative Assessment
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