Plantinga famously argues against evidentialism that belief in God can be properly basic. But the epistemology of cognitive faculties such as perception and memory which produce psychologically non-inferential beliefs shows that various inferentially justified theoretical beliefs are epistemically prior to ...
John Hick discusses in his essay The Problem of Evil, the objections to the belief in the existence of God is the presence of evil in the world. He begins by posing the traditional challenge to theism in the form of the dilemma: That if God was perfectly loving, he must wish to abolis...
Kierkegaard and Plantinga on Belief in God: Subjectivity as the Ground of Properly Basic Religious Beliefs." Faith and Philosophy 1, no.1 (January 1988): 25-39.Kierkegaard and Plantinga on Belief in God: Subjectivity as the Ground of Properly Basic Beliefs', Faith and Philosophy, 5/1 (...
In his early woks such as God and other Minds, quotIs Belief in God Rationalquot, quotIs Belief in God Properly Basicquot andquotReformed Epistemology and Christian Apologeticsquot, he endeavored to prove the rationality and justificationof believing in God and tried to offer certain and ...
Second, following Thomas Aquinas' thought, Plantinga's justification negates his claim that belief in God is properly basic because the said justification-conferring conditions seem to function as an evidence for belief in God. I will conclude the work by claiming that although evidence ...
I shall be concentrating on this recent attempt to do so. The essays in question are 'Is Belief in God Rational?' [4], 2 'The Reformed Objection to Natural Theology ' [5], and 'Is Belief in God Properly Basic?' [6].doi:10.1007/978-94-009-5223-2_10William P. Alston...
comparative analysis of Zen Buddhism, we show that an extension of Plantinga's argumentation can be shown to produce Warranted Zen Buddhist Belief, where Zen Buddhism, is considered 'properly basic' for the Zen Buddhist believer, producing a defeater for warranted Christian belief that may not be...
, "Is Belief in God Properly Basic?" and"Reformed Epistemology and Christian Apologetics", he endeavored to prove the rationality and justificationof believing in God and tried to offer certain and compelling arguments to prove the existence of God. In these works, Plantinga has adopted an ...
comparative analysis of Zen Buddhism, we show that an extension of Plantinga's argumentation can be shown to produce Warranted Zen Buddhist Belief, where Zen Buddhism, is considered 'properly basic' for the Zen Buddhist believer, producing a defeater for warranted Christian belief that may not be...
More technically, Reformed epistemology is the view that belief in God can be, and often is, "properly basic.".;Plantinga's religious epistemology can be conveniently divided into two stages: the early stage, which is best represented by his 1983 essay "Reason and Belief in God"; and the ...