Professor Plantinga is best known for his work in the Philosophy of Religion, and he has written three books on topics in that area.
Prior to his current appointment he served on the faculty of Calvin College, Grand Rapids, Michigan. O’Brien Professor of Philosophy and the Director of the Center for Philosophy of Religion at Notre Dame University. His published works cover the philosophical areas of epistemology, metaphysics and the philosophy of religion. Over 3, 000, 000 happy customers.Alvin Plantinga is a widely published philosopher. All orders placed with expedited shipping will be cancelled. box, and APO/FPO addresses allow 4-28 business days for Standard shipping. Brand New, Perfect Condition, allow 4-14 business days for standard shipping. Clarendon Library of Logic and Philosophy. The book ends with an appendix on Quine's objection to quantified modal logic.Ĭhoose your shipping method in Checkout. The first of these, the problem of reconciling the moral perfection and omnipotence of God with the existence of evil, can, he concludes, be resolved, and the second given a sound formulation. In the final chapters Professor Plantinga applies his logical theories to the elucidation of two problems in the philosophy of religion: the Problem of Evil and the Ontological Arguement. The arguement is developed by means of the notion of possible worlds and ranges over key problems including the nature of essence, trans-world identity, negative existential propositions, and the existence of unactual objects in other possible worlds.
This book, one of the first full-length studies of the modalities to emerge from the debate to which Saul Kripke, David Lewis, Ruth Marcus and others have contributed, is an exploraton and defence of the notion of modality "de re," the idea that objects have both essential and accidental properties. The arguement is developed by means of the notion of possible worlds and ranges over key problems including the nature of essence, trans-world identity, negative existential propositions, and the existence of unactual objects in.
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