Alvin Plantinga is remembered for arguments the next generation could not ignore.
The record lists Alvin Plantinga as American Christian philosopher.
Alvin Plantinga was born at Ann Arbor in 1932. His recorded nationality is United States. He studied at Harvard University and University of Michigan.
Twentieth-century philosophy was marked by war, exile and ideology; many of its central figures wrote in flight or under censorship.
His academic posts were held at Wayne State University, University of Notre Dame and Calvin University.
The recorded fields of work are philosophy, epistemology and analytic philosophy.
Among his principal works are God and Other Minds and Warranted Christian Belief. A philosophical position survives not by being proved but by resisting every attempt to dispose of it.
The honours record reads: Nicholas Rescher Prize for Systematic Philosophy (2012) and Templeton Prize.
That the work was done from United States matters: philosophical traditions, institutions and the language of publication have never been evenly distributed.
Achievements
- Nicholas Rescher Prize for Systematic Philosophy — 2012
- Templeton Prize
- Notable work: God and Other Minds
- Notable work: Warranted Christian Belief
- Held posts at Wayne State University, University of Notre Dame and Calvin University
- Fields: philosophy, epistemology and analytic philosophy
