Research Catalog

Title

Two dozen (or so) arguments for God : the Plantinga project / edited by Jerry L. Walls and Trent Dougherty.

Publication

• New York, NY : Oxford University Press, [2018]
• ©2018

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Details

Additional Authors

• Dougherty, Trent
• Walls, Jerry L.
• Plantinga, Alvin

Description

xi, 484 pages : illustrations; 24 cm

Summary

"Thirty years ago, Alvin Plantinga gave a lecture called "Two Dozen (or so) Theistic Arguments," which served as an underground inspiration for two generations of scholars and students. In it, he proposed a number of novel and creative arguments for the existence of God which have yet to receive the attention they deserve. In Two Dozen (or so) Arguments for God, each of Plantinga's original suggestions, many of which he only briefly sketched, is developed in detail by a wide variety of accomplished scholars. The authors look to metaphysics, epistemology, semantics, ethics, aesthetics, and beyond, finding evidence for God in almost every dimension of reality. Those arguments new to natural theology are more fully developed, and well-known arguments are given new life. Not only does this collection present ground-breaking research, but it lays the foundations for research projects for years to come."--Back cover.

Alternative Title

• Plantinga project
• 2 dozen (or so) arguments for God
• Two dozen arguments for God

Subjects

• Plantinga, Alvin
• Faith
• Faith and reason > Christianity
• God > Proof
• Interviews

Genre/Form

Interviews.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents

• Introduction / Jerry L. Walls and Trent Dougherty -- Part 1. Half a dozen (or so) dozen ontological (or metaphysical) arguments -- The argument from intentionality (or aboutness) : propositions supernaturalized / Lorraine Juliano Keller -- The argument from collections / Christopher Menzel -- The argument from (natural) numbers / Tyron Goldschmidt -- The argument from counterfactuals : counterfactuals, vagueness, and God / Alexander R. Pruss -- The argument from physical constants : the fine-tuning for discoverability / Robin Collins -- The naïve teleological argument : an argument from design for ordinary people / C. Stephen Evans -- The ontological argument : patching Plantinga's ontological argument by making the Murdoch move / Elizabeth D. Burns -- Why is there anything at all? / Joshua Rasmussen and Christopher Gregory Weaver.
• Part 2. Half a dozen epistemological arguments -- The argument from positive epistemic status : evolutionary psychology and the argument from positive epistemic status / Justin L. Barrett -- The argument from the confluence of proper function and reliability : is God the designer of our cognitive faculties? Evaluating Plantinga's argument / Alexander Arnold -- The argument from simplicity and the argument from induction : atheistic induction by Boltzmann Brains / Bradley Monton -- The Putnamian argument (the argument from the rejection of global skepticism) [also, the argument from reference, and the argument from the confluence of proper function and reliability : Putnam's semantic skepticism and the epistemic melt-down of naturalism : how defeat of Putnam's puzzle provides a defeater for Plantinga's self-defeat argument against naturalism / Evan Fales --The Putnamian argument, the argument from reference, and the Kripke-Wittgenstein argument from plus and quus : arguments from knowledge, reference, and content / Robert C. Koons.
• Part 3. Moral arguments -- Moral arguments : an abductive moral argument for God / David Baggett -- The argument from evil : felix culpa! / Hud Hudson.
• Part 4. Other arguments -- The argument from colors and flavors : the argument from consciousness / Richard Swinburne -- The argument from love and the argument from the meaning of life : the God of love and the meaning of life / Jerry L. Walls -- The Mozart argument and the argument from play and enjoyment : the theistic argument from beauty and play / Philip Tallon -- Arguments from providence and from miracles : of miracles : the state of the art and the uses of history / Timothy McGrew -- C. S. Lewis's argument from nostalgia : a new argument from desire / Todd Buras and Michael Cantrell -- The argument from (A) to (Y) : the argument from so many arguments / Ted Poston.
• Part 5. "Or so" : three more arguments -- The Kalam cosmological argument / William Lane Craig -- The argument from possibility / Brian Leftow -- The necessity of sufficiency : the argument from the incompleteness of nature / Bruce L Gordon -- Afterword: Trent Dougherty and Alvin Plantinga : an interview on faith and reason -- Appendix: Plantinga's original "Two dozen (or so) theistic arguments" : lecture notes / by Alvin Plantinga.

Call Number

JFE 19-517

ISBN

• 0190842229
• 9780190842222
• 0190842210
• 9780190842215

OCLC

1020864445

Title

Two dozen (or so) arguments for God : the Plantinga project / edited by Jerry L. Walls and Trent Dougherty.

Publisher

New York, NY : Oxford University Press, [2018]

Copyright Date

©2018

Type of Content

text

Type of Medium

unmediated

Type of Carrier

volume

Bibliography

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Added Author

Dougherty, Trent, editor, interviewer. Editor

Walls, Jerry L., editor. Editor

Plantinga, Alvin, writer of supplementary textual content, interviewee.

Research Call Number

JFE 19-517