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Alvin Plantinga
Few thinkers have had as much impact on contemporary philosophy as has
Alvin Plantinga. The work of this quintessential analytic philosopher has in
many respects set the tone for the debate in the fields of modal metaphysics and
epistemology, and he is arguably the most important philosopher of religion
of our time. In this volume, a distinguished team of today’s leading philoso-
phers address the central aspects of Plantinga’s philosophy – his views on nat-
ural theology, his responses to the problem of evil, his contributions to the
field of modal metaphysics, the controversial evolutionary argument against
naturalism, his model of epistemic warrant and his view of epistemic defeat,
his argument for warranted Christian belief, his response to the challenge of
religious pluralism, and his recent work on mind-body dualism. Also included
is an appendix containing Plantinga’s often referred to, but previously unpub-
lished, lecture notes entitled “Two Dozen (or so) Theistic Arguments,” with
a substantial preface to the appendix written by Plantinga specifically for this
volume.
Deane-Peter Baker is a Senior Lecturer in the School of Philosophy and Ethics
at the University of KwaZulu-Natal (South Africa). He is the author of Tayloring
Reformed Epistemology: Charles Taylor, Alvin Plantinga and the De Jure Challenge
to Christian Belief.
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Contemporary Philosophy in Focus
Contemporary Philosophy in Focus offers a series of introductory volumes
to many of the dominant philosophical thinkers of the current age. Each vol-
ume consists of missioned essays that cover major contributi