% 0 82 9 0 82,3/#,9 43, 9 ; 3!,39 3, Alvin Plantinga has been called "the most important philosopher of religion now writing." After taking his Ph.D. from Yale in 1958, he taught at Wayne State University (1958-63), Calvin College (1963-82), and has filled the John A. O'Brien Chair of Philosophy at the University of Notre Dame since 1982. He was president of the Western Division of the American Philosophical Association during 1981-82 and president of the Society of Christian Philosophers, which he helped to found, from 1983 to 1986. He frequently directs summer seminars for the National Endowment for the Humanities. He has received numerous honors, including an Award for Distinguished Teaching from the Danforth Foundation, a fellowship from the Center for Advanced Studies in the Behavioral Sciences, a fellowship from the Guggenheim Foundation, a fellowship from the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, separate fellowships from the N.E.H., and a fellowship from the American Council of Learned Societies. He has been awarded an honorary doctorate from Glasgow University. He has been invited to deliver more distinguished lectures series at American, Canadian, and British universities than can be listed here, except to note that he was selected to give the eminent Gifford Lectures at Aberdeen University in 1987-88. He was recently honored by a volume of essays bearing his name in D. Reidel's Profiles series. Widely acclaimed for his work on the metaphysics of modality, the ontological argument, the problem of evil, and the epistemology of religious belief, he is the author or editor of seven books, including God and Other Minds, The Nature of Necessity, and Faith and Rationality. Several of his articles, which have appeared in journals such as Theoria, American Philosophical Quarterly, Philosophical Studies, Journal of Philosophy, and so forth, have been hailed as masterpieces of the metaphysician's craft. 9 04 4., 4-0.9 438949 0-0 019,99 070 88:.,507843,8 4/.420 3 2,3 ;,7 09 08% 070,70 1470,25 0 9 01,2,74-0.9 4389,99 0 82 8 8420 4 3.4 07039 9,9 9 8 3.438 89039 9 9 00 8903.0410; 9,9 9 8, 549 08 8.431 720/472, -00;03/ 8.431 720/- 9 00; /03.0 9,9 24/0738. 03.0,88420 4.,89/4:-9:543 9,3/9 0 0349 07847941 4-0.947., 28 3499,99 0 82 8 3.4 07039471, 8047574-,- 1, 80,1907, 9 070 8570. 4:8 99 0-, 41.4 039,7 :20391479,9.43. :8 43 -:99,9 9 8 38420, :370,843,- 047 77,9 43, 94-0 0;0 3 4/ 0;03 19,9-0 01
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,..47/ 3 94 4 3 4. 0,2,7 41,7,9 43, 507843 89 0349039079, 3 3,3 574548 9 43 9 70,907,88:7,3.09,39 057441 9 8-: 9:543,77,39,3/,..47/ 3 94,; / :20 802,35745479 438 8-0 01949 00; /03.0 39 03 3090039.039:7 0,;0 1147/ 9,9/0. 4:8031,399077-0,8,2,208., 0/ 2 38 89 3 9,9 9 82438974:8 2247,,3/507,58 0;03 254 9094,..059,-0 01147. 4:,;0 38:11. 0390; /03.0 Whoso would deserve well of his fellow in this matter will guard the purity of his belief with a very fanaticism of jealous care, lest at any time it should rest on an unworthy object, and catch a stain which can never be wiped away.[1] 0,//89,9 1, 3/1 3, belief has been accepted on insufficient evidence, the pleasure is a stolen one. Not only does it deceive ourselves by giving us a sense of power which we do not really possess, but it is sinful, stolen in defiance of our duty to mankind. That duty is to guard ourselves from such beliefs as from a pestilence, which may shortly master our body and spread to the rest of the town. [2] To sum up: it is wrong always, everywhere, and for anyone to believe anything upon insufficient evidence.[3] 9 8349,7/94/090.9 39 0806:49,9 438 9 094304174-:89 4:85,9 48 9.,208.70/ 98 1147/ 39 8; 0 9 0 898 9 4:90; /03.02 8, 390/ 7,3/249 07 1470,25 0,701 4:9 3 9 0 705 8902./:9 08,3//0807;04:7 / 8,5574-,9 43,3// 8,5574;, 49 07%0708, 1470,25 0 18 0,8349,7 :20398147 07-0 01 3 4/ 9 0389,3/870;0, 0/,8,847941 390 0.9:, -079 308420430 4,8 430.4397,7 94 07 390 0.9:, 4-,9 438,3/ 8 /0807; 3 417057441,3/507,580;03/ 8. 5 3,7,.9 43
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