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D-Index
41
Citations
10397
World Ranking
4925
National Ranking
2333

Research.com Recognitions

  • 1975 - Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences
  • 1971 - Fellow of John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation

Overview

Alvin Plantinga is affiliated with the University of Notre Dame in the United States. Their research spans various fields within social sciences and arts and humanities, with a particular focus on education, safety research, philosophy, linguistics and language, and religious studies.

The scientist's main topics of work include:

  • Education and Cultural Studies
  • Catholicism, Bioethics, Media, Education
  • Theology and Philosophy of Evil
  • Language and Culture
  • Theology and Canon Law Studies

Among recent scholarly publications, Alvin Plantinga has contributed the following papers:

  • Naturalizm metodologiczny? (2021), published in Filozoficzne Aspekty Genezy
  • Actualism and Possible Worlds (2025), published in Problemos

Their frequent co-author is Philip L. Quinn, with whom they have collaborated on at least one publication.

Alvin Plantinga's work appears in several publication venues, mostly including:

  • Filozoficzne Aspekty Genezy
  • Problemos

Their book publications include the title Racjonalność wiary w Boga, released in 2023 by Wydawnictwo Academicon eBooks.

Alvin Plantinga has received recognitions such as:

  • Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences (1975)
  • Fellow of John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation (1971)

Best Publications

  • The nature of necessity

    Alvin Plantinga

  • Warrant and proper function

    Alvin Plantinga

  • Warranted Christian Belief

    Alvin Plantinga

  • Warrant: The Current Debate

    Alvin Plantinga

  • God, Freedom, and Evil

    Alvin Plantinga

  • Where the Conflict Really Lies: Science, Religion, and Naturalism

    Alvin Plantinga

  • Actualism and possible worlds

    Alvin Plantinga

  • God and Other Minds

    Alvin Plantinga

  • Is Belief in God Properly Basic

    Alvin Plantinga

  • Does God have a nature

    Alvin Plantinga

  • Advice to Christian Philosophers

    Alvin Plantinga

  • On Ockham’s Way Out

    Alvin Plantinga

  • Proper functionalism and virtue epistemology

    Ernest Sosa

  • On existentialism

    Unknown

  • Faith and rationality: reason and belief in God

    Alvin Plantinga;Nicholas Wolterstorff

  • Knowledge of God

    Alvin Plantinga;Michael Tooley

  • Faith and Rationality

    Alvin Plantinga;Nicholas Wolterstorff

  • How to be an Anti-Realist

    Alvin Plantinga

  • God and Other Minds: A Study of the Rational Justification of Belief in God

    Unknown

  • The Boethian Compromise

    Alvin Plantinga

  • Kant's objection to the ontological argument

    Alvin Plantinga

  • The ontological argument, from St. Anselm to contemporary philosophers

    Alvin Plantinga

  • Warranted Christian Belief: A Précis by the Author

    Alvin Plantinga

  • The Nature of Necessity.

    Desmond Paul Henry;Alvin Plantinga

  • The Miracle of Theism.

    Richard Swinburne;J. L. Mackie;Alvin Plantinga;Nicholas Wolterstorff

Frequent Co-Authors

Richard Swinburne
Richard Swinburne University of Oxford
Daniel C. Dennett
Daniel C. Dennett Tufts University
Robert Audi
Robert Audi University of Notre Dame
Ernest Sosa
Ernest Sosa Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey
Anthony Kenny
Anthony Kenny University of Oxford
William P. Alston
William P. Alston Syracuse University
William G. Lycan
William G. Lycan University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Robert Wuthnow
Robert Wuthnow Princeton University

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