| | '''Alvin Carl Plantinga''', born November 15, 1932 (age {{age|1932|11|15}}), in Ann Arbor, [[Michigan]], is a current [[professor]] of [[philosophy]] at the [[University of Notre Dame]], South Bend, [[Indiana]]. He is known for his lectures in the debate over divine sovereignty and providence, as well as works on the existence of [[God]], including a version of the [[Ontological argument]] based on possible-worlds modality. He is a [[Christian]], and has rebutted many of the arguments of [[Richard Dawkins]]. | | '''Alvin Carl Plantinga''', born November 15, 1932 (age {{age|1932|11|15}}), in Ann Arbor, [[Michigan]], is a current [[professor]] of [[philosophy]] at the [[University of Notre Dame]], South Bend, [[Indiana]]. He is known for his lectures in the debate over divine sovereignty and providence, as well as works on the existence of [[God]], including a version of the [[Ontological argument]] based on possible-worlds modality. He is a [[Christian]], and has rebutted many of the arguments of [[Richard Dawkins]]. |
| − | Plantinga is also credited, along with Wolterstorff (1976) for the the argument that belief in [[God]] can be defended as properly basic. | + | Plantinga is also credited, along with Wolterstorff (1976) for first articulating the argument that belief in [[God]] can be defended as properly basic. |