Knowledge and Reality

1. Front Matter

   Pages i-xii

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2. Actualism and Presentism

   • James E. Tomberlin

   Pages 1-14

3. Properties

   • Peter van Inwagen

   Pages 15-34

4. So You Think You Exist? In Defense of Nolipsism

   • Jenann Ismael, John L. Pollock

   Pages 35-62

5. Substance and Artifact in Aquinas’s Metaphysics

   • Eleonore Stump

   Pages 63-79

6. Epistemology and Metaphysics

   • William P. Alston

   Pages 81-109

7. Historicizing the Belief-Forming Self

   • Nicholas Wolterstorff

   Pages 111-135

8. A Dilemma for Internalism

   • Michael Bergmann

   Pages 137-177

9. Epistemic Internalism, Philosophical Assurance and the Skeptical Predicament

   • Richard Fumerton

   Pages 179-191

10. Scientific Naturalism and the Value of Knowledge

    • Jonathan Kvanvig

    Pages 193-214

11. Naturalism and Moral Realism

    • Michael C. Rea

    Pages 215-241

12. A Problem with Bayesian Conditionalization

    • Richard Otte

    Pages 243-255

13. Materialism and Post-Mortem Survival

    • Keith E. Yandell

    Pages 257-298

14. Split Brains and the Godhead

    • Trenton Merricks

    Pages 299-326

15. Back Matter

    Pages 327-337

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This volume was conceived as a Festschrift to surprise Alvin Plantinga on his 70th birthday. That original plan was not entirely successful. For one thing, the day came and went well before the work was complete. For another, the project wasn’t quite a surprise: Plantinga caught wind of it (though not of its details) before the unveiling. The occasion was marked, however, by a presentation of a projected table of contents and an early draft of the cover painting by Keith Lehrer. Plantinga then saw the details, and was quite taken aback that the editors and a few contributors had come to South Bend from as far Virginia, Florida, and California to celebrate. Now we are pleased to offer the essays themselves. The collection ranges widely over metaphysics and epistemology. Its wingspan testifies to the breadth both of Plantinga’s own work and of the audience that has valued it. Some of the essays deal with ontology, examining actualism, presentism, antirealism, properties, and artifacts. Several essays in epistemology raise skeptical questions, work through the implications of naturalism or int- nalism, and engage Plantinga’s own Reidian account of warrant. Other contributions consider the bearing of philosophical ideas on the Christian faith–of split brain cases on the doctrine of the Trinity, for example, and of materialism on the afterlife. The contributors are friends, colleagues, and former students of Plantinga. The editors thank all of them for their eager participation in this project.

• Analytic philosophy
• Metaphysics
• Philosophy of religion
• Plantinga
• Religion
• epistemology
• knowledge
• philosophy

• Biola University, La Mirada, USA

  Thomas M. Crisp

• California State University, San Bernardino, USA

  Matthew Davidson

• Westmont College, Santa Barbara, USA

  David Vander Laan

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