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Title: Warrant: The Current Debate by Alvin Plantinga ISBN: 0-19-507862-4 Publisher: Oxford University Press Pub. Date: 01 May, 1993 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $30.00 |
Average Customer Rating: 3 (1 review)
Rating: 3
Summary: Valuable reference with a lot of caveats
Comment: This book suffers from poor organization. For example, chapters 6 and 7 both deal with what Plantinga calls "Bayesian coherentism," as a theory of warrant, but it doesn't seem to me that there is such a thing. He creates a hypothetical theory of warrant out of a theory of probability associated with the 17th century clergyman Thomas Bayes. Then he spends two chapters discussing a variety of problems some of them associated with real life Bayesians (arguing over matters other than warrant) and others associated with his hypothetical Bayesianism.
Still, those who want a summary of a good part of the contemporary debate over epistemological questions will find it here, and you can use the footnotes to find other works in which to study the matters discussed with more depth.
I especially appreciatd the discussion of Laurence BonJour's version of coherentism. Plantinga finds BonJour's copmments on probability "thoroughly obscure....That precisely THAT mosquito should bite you precisely when and where it does, that on your cross-country trip on December 23 ar 4:13 PM you should be precisely where you are at that time, that there should be precisely the number of blades in your backyard that in fact adorn it...either these things are all improbable in the relevant sense or else I have no idea what that relevant sense might be."
A good point, that, and well expressed. Perhaps it was BonJour's problems with probability that stimulated the digression on Bayesianism.
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Title: Warranted Christian Belief by Alvin Plantinga ISBN: 0195131932 Publisher: Oxford University Press Pub. Date: 01 May, 2000 List Price(USD): $27.50 |
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Title: The Nature of Necessity by Alvin Plantinga ISBN: 0198244142 Publisher: Oxford University Press Pub. Date: 01 September, 1989 List Price(USD): $26.00 |
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Title: God and Other Minds: A Study of the Rational Justification of Belief in God by Alvin Plantinga ISBN: 0801497353 Publisher: Cornell University Press Pub. Date: 01 June, 1990 List Price(USD): $18.95 |
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Title: God, Freedom, and Evil by Alvin Plantinga ISBN: 0802817319 Publisher: Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing Company Pub. Date: 01 December, 1977 List Price(USD): $12.00 |
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Title: Faith & Rationality: Reason & Belief in God by Alvin Plantinga, Nicholas Wolterstorff ISBN: 0268009651 Publisher: University of Notre Dame Press Pub. Date: 01 March, 1984 List Price(USD): $17.50 |
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