Alvin Plantinga

Alvin Plantinga
Plantinga in 2004
Born	Alvin Carl Plantinga (1932-11-15) November 15, 1932 (age 91) Ann Arbor, Michigan, U.S.
Education	Harvard University Calvin University University of Michigan Yale University
Notable work	God and Other Minds (1967) Warranted Christian Belief (2000)
Spouse	Kathleen De Boer ​ (m. 1955)​
Awards	Rescher Prize (2012) Templeton Prize (2017)
Era	20th-century philosophy
Region	Western philosophy
School	Analytic
Institutions	Wayne State University Calvin University University of Notre Dame
Doctoral advisor	Paul Weiss
Main interests	Epistemology metaphysics philosophy of religion logic modal logic philosophy of science natural theology
Notable ideas	Reformed epistemology Free-will defense Modal ontological argument Proper functionalism Evolutionary argument against naturalism Warrant Modal metaphysics Divine attributes Internalism and externalism

Alvin Carl Plantinga^[a] (born November 15, 1932) is an American analytic philosopher who works primarily in the fields of philosophy of religion, epistemology (particularly on issues involving epistemic justification), and logic.

From 1963 to 1982, Plantinga taught at Calvin University before accepting an appointment as the John A. O'Brien Professor of Philosophy at the University of Notre Dame.^[2] He later returned to Calvin University to become the inaugural holder of the Jellema Chair in Philosophy.^[3]

A prominent Christian philosopher, Plantinga served as president of the Society of Christian Philosophers from 1983 to 1986. He has delivered the Gifford Lectures twice and was described by Time magazine as "America's leading orthodox Protestant philosopher of God".^[4] In 2014, Plantinga was the 30th most-cited contemporary author in the Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy.^[5] A fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, he was awarded the Templeton Prize in 2017.^[6]

Some of Plantinga's most influential works include God and Other Minds (1967), The Nature of Necessity (1974), and a trilogy of books on epistemology, culminating in Warranted Christian Belief (2000) that was simplified in Knowledge and Christian Belief (2015).^[7]

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