文档介绍：GOD AND OTHER MINDS
A Study of the Rational Justification
of Belief in God
CONTEMPORARY PHILOSOPHY
General Editor
Max Black, Cornell University
mittee
Charles A. Baylis, Duke University
William Frankena, University of Michigan
Morton White, Harvard University
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GOD AND
OTHER MINDS
A Study of the Rational Justification
of Belief in God
By Alvin Plantinga
Cornell University Press
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To Kathleen
Preface
IN this study I set out to investigate the rational justification
of belief in the existence of God as He is conceived in the
Hebrew-Christian tradition. Part I examines natural theology,
an imp