What is Alvin Plantinga?
[[File:Alvin Plantinga.jpg|thumb|Alvin Plantinga in 2004]] '''Alvin Plantinga''' (born November 15, 1932, [[Ann Arbor, Michigan]]<ref name=gifford /> ) is an [[Americans|American]] [[epistemology|epistemologist]], [[philosophy|philosopher]] of [[religion]] and [[professor]] at the [[University of Notre Dame]]. He is a founding member of the [[Society of Christian Philosophers]]. Plantinga's aim in philosophy is to defend believing in [[God]] as rational. His epistemology is one that tries to say that [[knowledge]] is only possible if you accept the possibility of some form of [[intelligent design]] by God. ==References== {{reflist|refs= <ref name=gifford>{{cite web|title=Gifford Lecture Series - Biography - Alvin Plantinga|url=http://www.giffordlectures.org/Author.asp?AuthorID=206|access-date=17 February 2013|archive-date=29 May 2013|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130529010240/http://www.giffordlectures.org/Author.asp?AuthorID=206|url-status=dead}}</ref> }} {{authority control}} {{us-bio-stub}} {{DEFAULTSORT:Plantinga, Alvin}} [[Category:1932 births]] [[Category:Living people]] [[Category:20th-century American philosophers]] [[Category:21st-century American philosophers]] [[Category:Academics from Indiana]] [[Category:American Calvinists]] [[Category:American theologians]] [[Category:People from Ann Arbor, Michigan]]