Knowledge and reality Essays in Honor of Alvin Plantinga /

• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Other Authors: Crisp, Thomas M. (Editor), Davidson, Matthew (Editor), Vander Laan, David (Editor)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Dordrecht : Springer Netherlands, 2006.
• Subjects: Philosophy.; Epistemology.; Metaphysics.; Religion > Philosophy.; Philosophy, general.; Philosophy of Religion.

This volume comprises essays presented to Alvin Plantinga on the occasion of his 70th birthday. Plantinga is one of the leading figures in Anglo-American metaphysics, epistemology and philosophy of religion; his work in these areas has been the focus of wide scholarly attention. This collection of e...

Table of Contents:

• Actualism and Presentism
• Properties
• So You Think You Exist? In Defense of Nolipsism
• Substance and Artifact in Aquinas’s Metaphysics
• Epistemology and Metaphysics
• Historicizing the Belief-Forming Self
• A Dilemma for Internalism
• Epistemic Internalism, Philosophical Assurance and the Skeptical Predicament
• Scientific Naturalism and the Value of Knowledge
• Naturalism and Moral Realism
• A Problem with Bayesian Conditionalization
• Materialism and Post-Mortem Survival
• Split Brains and the Godhead.