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Alvin Plantinga

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Alvin Plantinga Cornelius (born 15 November 1932 in Ann Arbor in Michigan ) is a philosopher U.S.. He is particularly known for arguments against the metaphysical and epistemological naturalism and in favor of religious belief. This led him to defend intelligent design against certain philosophical interpretations of the scientific theory of evolution ^Bibliography

God and Other Minds: A Study In The Rational Justification of Belief in God, Ithaca, NY, Cornell University Press , 1967.
The Nature of Necessity, Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1974.
'Reason and Belief in God', in Faith and Rationality: Reason and Belief in God, ed. Alvin Plantinga and Nicholas Wolterstorff, Notre Dame, University of Notre Dame Press, 1983.
Warrant: the Current Debate, New York, Oxford University Press, 1993.
Warrant and Proper Function, New York, Oxford University Press, 1993.
The Analytic Theist: An Alvin Plantinga Reader, Grand Rapids, Michigan, William B. Eerdmans Publishing, 1998 (collection of essays, book excerpts and articles, covering the period 1967-1995, edited by James Sennett).
Warranted Christian Belief, New York, Oxford University Press, 2000.
Knowledge of God (with Michael Tooley), Oxford, Blackwell Publishing, 2008.

"Two concepts of modality: modal realism and modal reductionism" ("Two Concepts of Modality: Modal Realism and Modal Reductionism", trans. F. Nef) in E. Garcia and F. Nef (eds) Contemporary Metaphysics (Collection: Key Texts), Paris, Vrin, 2007, pp. 269-307.

James E. Tomberlin and Peter van Inwagen (ed.), Alvin Plantinga, Dordrecht, Kluwer Academic Publishers, 1985.
James Beilby, Epistemology as Theology: An Evaluation of Alvin Plantinga's Religious Epistemology, Aldershot, Ashgate, 2005.
Keith A. Mascord, Alvin Plantinga and Christian Apologetics, Eugene, Oregon, Wipf and Stock Publishers, 2006.
Deane-Peter Baker (ed.), Alvin Plantinga, Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 2007.
Deane-Peter Baker, Reformed Epistemology Tayloring: Charles Taylor, Alvin Plantinga & the de jure Challenge to Christian Belief, London, SCM Press, 2007.