Category Archives: Alvin Plantinga

Pinker and Plantinga

Posted by Chris Hallquist on January 16, 2012 Comments Off

When I first got Plantinga’s latest book, I was a little unsure of what to say about the version of evolutionary argument against naturalism (EAAN) he presents there. I’ve long been irked by Plantinga’s apparent lack of curiosity about what scientists who work on the evolution of the mind would say about his argument. On [...]

I’ll take Alvin Plantinga over John Haught any day

Posted by Chris Hallquist on December 22, 2011 4 comments

Jerry Coyne, last week: Alvin Plantinga, like John Haught, is regarded as a sophisticated and serious theologian. (Although he’s formally a Christian philosopher at the University of Notre Dame, he’s published lots of books defending God, engaging in apologetics, and so on, so there’s little doubt he qualifies as a theologian.) This made me wince. [...]

Plantinga’s inexcusable faults (review of Where The Conflict Really Lies)

Posted by Chris Hallquist on December 21, 2011 15 comments

I don’t expect Plantinga’s fans to ever totally agree with my negative assessment of Plantinga. My disagreements with them are too big. For one thing, I assume most of Plantinga’s fans think that what academic philosophers do is generally worthwhile, where as I don’t think that. But I hope that even fans of academic philosophy [...]

Plantinga’s ontological argument, take three

Posted by Chris Hallquist on December 16, 2011 19 comments

Rather than respond directly to comments on my previous post, I’m rewriting it, taking the issue “from the top” so to speak. The last four paragraphs are what I’d most like people to read and comment on, but the earlier parts are changed quite a bit too by adding a discussion of William Lane Craig. [...]

Why Alvin Plantinga’s ontological argument isn’t even halfway good

Posted by Chris Hallquist on December 12, 2011 24 comments

Someone asked me to write about Alvin Plantinga, so I’ve decided to write another explanation of who his ontological argument isn’t any good, due to not being satisfied with what I’ve previously written on this. Please tell me if the following is clear enough. If people understand it, it will appear more or less as [...]