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March 4, 2009

Knowledge of God – Plantinga vs. Tooley

Posted by Ian M. Church under Apologetics, Epistemology, Reformed Epistemology
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For those of you interested in the Plantinga vs. Dennett debate, a book that you may be interested in is Knowledge of God by Alvin Plantinga and Michael Tooley, which came out late 2008. I haven’t read all of it yet, but so far it seems like a must-have for anyone interested in Reformed Epistemology / apologetics. I’d imagine that it contains much of the same argumentation that Plantinga presented at the Dennett debate. 

The back cover reads: “Is belief in God justified? That’s the fundamental question at the heart of this volume of the Great Debates in Philosophy series. Alvin Plantinga and Michael Tooley each tackle the matter with distinctive arguments from opposing perspectives. The book opens with an explanation of the philosopher’s viewpoints, followed by a lively and engaging conversation in which each directly responds to the other’s arguments.” 

 

March 2, 2009

The Plantinga / Dennett debate.

Posted by Ian M. Church under Apologetics
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At the most recent APA meeting, there was a debate of sorts between Alvin Plantinga and Daniel Dennett. A good, though admittedly biased, play by play can be found here (thanks Will for pointing this out).  Other bloggers out there came away from the debate with a different conclusion, but, according to my view, who you think won largely depends on your opinion of the matter at the start. 

 

September 20, 2008

Bahnsen for Freshers?

Posted by Ian M. Church under Apologetics
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Oh the wonders of YouTube. I found this series of videos on a couple talks the Christian Philosopher and Apologist Greg Bahnsen gave way-back-when to students starting their undergraduate career. Given that it is “Freshers Week” here at St Andrews, I found these talks quite pertinent. All I posted here are the clips from the first talk on “The Myth of Neutrality”; if you are interested in the other talks (Part 2: “Introduction to Worldviews”;  Part 3: “Worldviews in Conflict”; Part 4: “Defending the Christian Faith” ; Part 5: “Problems for Unbelieving Worldviews”) they can be easily found on YouTube.

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