This is a talk I gave to the New Zealand Association of Philosophy Teachers annual conference at St Cutherberts College in September this year. Several people have asked me to make this talk available. I have broken my talk up into four parts. Part One introduces what philosophy of religion. In part two I will outline two […]
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Contemporary Philosophy of Religion and NCEA Religious Studies: Part three
October 21st, 2017 Comments Off on Contemporary Philosophy of Religion and NCEA Religious Studies: Part three
Tags: Alvin Plantinga · Evidentialism · Kai Neilsen · Marilyn Adams · Phillip Quinn · Reformed Epistemology · Verificationism
In Defense of Reasonable Disagreement
May 30th, 2011 39 Comments
At the close of his 1967 book “God and Other Minds”, Alvin Plantinga argues that if theistic belief is to be dismissed as “irrational”, or in some sense “epistemically sub-par” on the basis that it lacks a rationally compelling argument, then likewise we should also reject belief in other minds, since the best argument for […]
Tags: Alvin Plantinga · Analogical argument · Disagreement · God and Other Minds · Rationality · Reformed Epistemology · Religious Epistemology · Richard Feldman · Theism · Theists