Alvin Plantinga

1. Front Matter

   Pages i-ix

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2. Part One

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 1-2

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   2. Self-Profile

      • James E. Tomberlin, Peter van Inwagen

      Pages 3-97

3. Part Two

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 99-99

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   2. Plantinga on Trans-World Identity

      • Peter van Inwagen

      Pages 101-120

   3. Plantinga on Possible Worlds

      • John L. Pollock

      Pages 121-144

   4. Plantinga on the Reduction of Possibilist Discourse

      • Kit Fine

      Pages 145-186

   5. Plantinga’s Theory of Proper Names

      • Diana F. Ackerman

      Pages 187-198

   6. Plantinga and the Philosophy of Mind

      • Carl Ginet

      Pages 199-223

   7. Plantinga on the Problem of Evil

      • Robert M. Adams

      Pages 225-255

   8. Plantinga and the Ontological Argument

      • James E. Tomberlin

      Pages 257-270

   9. Plantinga on Foreknowledge and freedom

      • Philip L. Quinn

      Pages 271-287

   10. Plantinga’s Epistemology of Religious Belief

       • William P. Alston

       Pages 289-311

   11. Replies to my Colleagues

       • Alvin Plantinga

       Pages 313-396

4. Back Matter

   Pages 399-410

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The aim of this series is to inform both professional philosophers and a larger readership (of social and natural scientists, methodologists, mathematicians, students, teachers, publishers, etc.) about what is going on, who's who, and who does what in contemporary philosophy and logic. PROFILES is designed to present the research activity and the results of already outstanding personalities and schools and of newly emerging ones in the various fields of philosophy and logic. There are many Festschrift volumes dedicated to various philosophers. There is the celebrated Library of Living Philosophers edited by P. A. Schilpp whose format influenced the present enterprise. Still they can only cover very little of the contemporary philosophical scene. Faced with a tremendous expansion of philosophical information and with an almost frightening division of labor and increasing specialization we need systematic and regular ways of keeping track of what happens in the profession. PROFILES is intended to perform such a function. Each volume is devoted to one or several philosophers whose views and results are presented and discussed. The profiled philosopher(s) will summarize and review his (their) own work in the main fields of significant contribution. This work will be discussed and evaluated by invited contributors. Relevant historical and/or biographical data, an up-to-date bibliography with short abstracts of the most important works and, whenever possible, references to significant reviews and discussions will also be included.

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`The book is uniformly excellent, not only in the quality of the individual contributions but in the balance and selection of materials, the notes, references and indices.'
International Philosophical Quarterly (September 1986)

• Dept. of Philosophy, California State University at Northridge, USA

  James E. Tomberlin

• Dept. of Philosophy, Syracruse University, USA

  Peter Inwagen

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