Papers by Alvin Plantinga

This is a collection of philosophical papers by Alvin Plantinga. Eventually, I hope to make it complete.

Articles

(2016) "Law, Cause, and Occasionalism", in Reason and Faith: Themes from Richard Swinburne, Bergmann and Brower, eds. (video here)
(2015) "Replies to my commentators", in Plantinga's Warranted Christian Belief: Critical Essays, Dieter Schönecker, ed.
(2011) "Content and Natural Selection", Philosophy and Phenomenological Research 83: 435-458.
(2010) "Naturalism, Theism, Obligation and Supervenience", Faith and Philosophy 27: 247-272.
(2009) "Transworld Depravity, Transworld Sanctity, and Uncooperative Essences", Philosophy and Phenomenological Research 78: 178-191.
(2009) "Games Scientists Play", in The Believing Primate (Murray and Schloss, eds.).
(2008) "What is 'Intervention'?", Theology and Science 6: 369-401.
(2008) "On 'Proper Basicality'", Philosophy and Phenomenological Research 75: 612-621.
(2007/1986) "Two Dozen (or so) Theistic Arguments", Alvin Plantinga (Baker, ed.).
(2007) "Materialism and Christian Belief", in Persons: Human and Divine (van Inwagen and Zimmerman, eds.).
(2006) "Against Materialism", Faith and Philosophy 23: 3-32.
(2004) "Supralapsarianism, or 'O Felix Culpa'", Christian Faith and the Problem of Evil (van Inwagen, ed.).
(2004) "Evolution, Epiphenomenalism, Reductionism", Philosophy and Phenomenological Research 68: 602-619.
(2003) "Probability and Defeaters", Pacific Philosophical Quarterly 84: 291-298.
(2001) "Swinburne and Plantinga on Internal Rationality" (with Richard Swinburne), Religious Studies 37: 357-358.
(2001) "Rationality and Public Evidence", Religious Studies 37: 215-222.
(1999) "On Heresy, Mind, and Truth", Faith and Philosophy 16: 182-193.
(1998) "Twenty Years Worth of the SCP", Faith and Philosophy 15: 151-155.
(1998) "Degenerate Evidence and Rowe's New Evidential Argument from Evil", Nous 32: 531-544.
(1997) "Ad Hick", Faith and Philosophy 14: 295-298.
(1997) "Warrant and Accidentally True Belief", Analysis 57: 140-145.
(1996) "Science: Augustinian or Duhemian?", Faith and Philosophy 13: 368-394.
(1996) "Respondeo", Warrant in Contemporary Epistemology: Essays in Honor of Plantinga’s Theory of Knowledge (Kvanvig, ed.).
(1995) "Pluralism: A Defense of Religious Exclusivism", The Rationality of Belief and the Plurality of Faith (Senor, ed.).
(1995) "What's the Question?", Journal of Philosophical Research 20: 19-43.
(1995) "Precis of Warrant: The Current Debate and Warrant and Proper Function", Philosophy and Phenomenological Research 60: 393-396
(1995) "Reliabilism, Analyses, and Defeaters", Philosophy and Phenomenological Research 60: 427-464.
(1993) "A Christian Life Partly Lived", in Philosophers Who Believe (Kelly James Clark, ed.)
(1993) "Divine Knowledge", in Christian Perspectives on Religious Knowledge (C. Stephan Evans and Merold Westphal, eds.)
(1993) "Truth, Omniscience, and Cantorian Arguments: An Exchange" (with Patrick Grim) Philosophical Studies 71: 267-306.
(1993) "Why We Need Proper Function" Nous 27: 66-82.
(1992) "Augustinian Christian Philosophy" The Monist 75: 291-320.
(1991) "The Prospects for Natural Theology" Philosophical Perspectives 5: 287-315.
(1991) "Warrant and Designing Agents" Philosophical Studies 64: 203-215.
(1991) "Ad Walls" Philosophy and Phenomenological Research 51: 621-624.
(1990) "Justification in the Twentieth Century" Philosophy and Phenomenological Research 50: 45-71.
(1988) "Positive Epistemic Status and Proper Function" Philosophical Perspectives 2: 1-50.
(1988) "Method and Christian Philosophy", Faith and Philosophy 5: 159-164.
(1988) "Justification and Theism", Faith and Philosophy 4: 403-426.
(1987) "Two Concepts of Modality: Modal Realism and Modal Reductionism", Philosophical Perspectives 1: 189-231.
(1986) "The Foundations of Theism", Faith and Philosophy 3: 298-313.
(1993) "Epistemic Justification" Nous 27: 3-18.
(1986) "Is Theism Really a Miracle?", Faith and Philosophy 3: 109-134.
(1986) "On Ockham's Way Out", Faith and Philosophy 3: 235-269.
(1985) "Self-Profile", in Alvin Plantinga (Tomberlin and van Inwagen, eds.)
(1984) "Advice to Christian Philosophers", Faith and Philosophy 1: 253-271.
(1983) "On Existentialism", Philosophical Studies 44: 1-20.
(1983) "How to Be An Anti-Realist" (Presidential Address), Proceedings of the American Philosophical Association 80: 47-70.
(1981) "Tooley and Evil", Australasian Journal of Philosophy 60: 66-75.
(1981) "Is Belief in God Properly Basic?" Nous 15: 41-52.
(1981) "The Reformed Objection to Natural Theology" Proceedings of the American Catholic Philosophical Association 15: 49-62.
(1981) "Response to Van Til" Pro Rege 9, 3: 29-30.
(1978) "The Probablistic Argument from Evil" Philosophical Studies 35: 1-53.
(1978) "The Boethian Compromise" American Philosophical Quarterly 15: 129-138.
(1976) "Actualism and Possible Worlds" Theoria 42: 139-160.
(1976) "Necessary and Essential Existence" Canadian Journal of Philosophy 6: 105-111.
(1975) "On Mereological Essentialism" Review of Metaphysics 28: 468-476.
(1973) "Which Worlds Could God Have Created?" Journal of Philosophy 70: 539-552.
(1970) "What George Could Not Have Been" Nous 5: 227-232.
(1970) "World and Essence" Philosophical Review 79: 461-492.
(1969) "De Re et De Dicto" Nous 3: 235-258.
(1968) "Induction and Other Minds, II" Review of Metaphysics 21: 524-533.
(1966) "Pike and Possible Persons" Journal of Philosophy 63: 104-108.
(1966) "Kant's Objection to the Ontological Argument" Journal of Philosophy 63: 537-545.
(1966) "Induction and Other Minds" Review of Metaphysics 19: 441-461.
(1965) "On Paul Ziff's 'The Simplicity of Other Minds'" Journal of Philosophy 19: 585-586.
(1963) "Analytic Philosophy and Christianity", Christianity Today 8, 2: 17-20.
(1962) "The Perfect Goodness of God", Australasian Journal of Philosophy 40: 70-75.
(1962) "It's Actual, So It Must Be Possible", Philosophical Studies 12: 61-64.
(1961) "A Valid Ontological Argument?" Philosophical Review 70: 93-101.
(1961) "Things and Persons" Review of Metaphysics 14: 493-519.
(1958) "An Existentialist's Ethics" Review of Metaphysics 12: 235-256.

Reviews

(in progress)

Misc.

(2011) "Response to Nick Wolterstorff", Faith and Philosophy 28: 267-268.
(2011) Audio Interview with Brian Auten
(2009) "In Memoriam: William P. Alston", Faith and Philosophy 26: 359-360.
(2008) Audio Interview with Unbelievable

Books

(2015) Knowledge and Christian Belief
(2011) Where the Conflict Really Lies: Science, Religion, and Naturalism
(2010) Are Science And Religion Compatible? (with Daniel Dennett)
(2008) Knowledge of God (with Michael Tooley)
(2003) Essays in the Metaphysics of Modality (Matthew Davidson, ed.)
(2000) Warranted Christian Belief
(1998) The Analaytic Theist (James Sennett, ed.)
(1993) Warrant and Proper Function
(1993) Warrant: The Current Debate
(1990) The Twin Pillars of Christian Scholarship
(1983) Faith and Rationality (ed., with Nicholas Wolterstorff)
(1980) Does God Have a Nature?
(1974) God, Freedom, and Evil
(1974) The Nature of Necessity
(1967) God and Other Minds
(1965) The Ontological Argument (ed.)
(1964) Faith and Philosophy (ed.)

Maintained by Andrew M. Bailey. I maintain similar collections of papers by John Martin Fischer, David Lewis, and Peter van Inwagen.

(Last updated: 10 January 2025)