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Knowledge and Reality

Essays in Honor of Alvin Plantinga

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  • © 2006

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Editors:
  1. Thomas M. Crisp

    1. Biola University, La Mirada, USA

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  2. Matthew Davidson

    1. California State University, San Bernardino, USA

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  3. David Vander Laan

    1. Westmont College, Santa Barbara, USA

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  • Contains top-notch essays by some of today's best philosophers
  • Written for one of America's most important philosophers and most important philosopher of religion

Part of the book series: Philosophical Studies Series (PSSP, volume 103)

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Table of contents (13 chapters)

  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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About this book

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.

Editors and Affiliations

  • 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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