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'''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]], was a full-time [[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 first articulating 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.
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'''Philosopher Sticks Up for God''' “There are vastly more [[Christian]] [[philosopher]]s and vastly more visible or assertive Christian philosophy now than when I left graduate school,” Mr. Alvin Plantinga said in a recent telephone interview from his home in Grand Rapids, adding, with characteristic modesty, “I have no idea how it happened.”
Mr. Plantinga retired from full-time teaching last year, with more than a dozen books and a past presidency of the American Philosophical Association to his name. But he’s hardly resting on those laurels. Having made philosophy safe for theism, he’s now turning to a harder task: making theism safe for [[science]].
[http://www.nytimes.com/2011/12/14/books/alvin-plantingas-new-book-on-god-and-science.html?_r=1&ref=arts]
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==Links==
==Links==
*[http://philosophy.nd.edu/people/all/profiles/plantinga-alvin/ Notre Dame bio]
*[http://philosophy.nd.edu/people/all/profiles/plantinga-alvin/ Notre Dame bio]