A study on the rational justification of belief in god, cornell university press, ithaca 1967. With minds and gods, tremlin offers a roadmap to a fascinating and growing field of study, one that is sure to generate interest and debate and provide readers with a better understanding of themselves and their beliefs. Ebook god and other minds as pdf download portable. Alvin plantinga god and other minds chapters 56 optional. A study of the rational justification of belief open epub for god and other minds. A study of the rational justification of belief in god. Pdf mulla sadra and the problem of other minds researchgate.
Alvin plantinga god and other minds existence of god argument. This result, and the distinctive path that leads to it, will interest students and scholars in philosophy of religion and theology. I reconsider the idea that there is an analogy between belief in other minds and belief in god, and examine two approaches to the relevant beliefs. Can belief in god be rational because of something other than arguments and evidence. A study of anselms proslogion argument on the existence of god.
He makes a strong case that when this parity claim is appropriately restricted to a single, sound otherminds belief, belief in god and belief in other minds do prove epistemically comparable. Read download god and other minds pdf pdf download. God and other minds by alvin plantinga, 1967, cornell university press edition, in english. Article information, pdf download for god and other minds. What links here related changes upload file special pages permanent link page.
Whereas the latter part of the text argues that belief in god is rational along the lines that belief in other minds is rational. Pdf download terror in the mind of god fourth edition free. God and other minds a study of the rational justification. Those who take a skep tical stance concerning our purported knowledge of other minds do so by argu ing that one is never justified in attributing mental states to. Gods machines are incompara bly better arranged, and possess move ments which are much more admirable, than any of those which can be in.
God and other minds a study of the rational justification of belief in god cornell paperbacks page. Richard james campbell 1976 faculty of arts, australian national university. Pdf evolution and the problem of other minds researchgate. It is one of the hallowed, if nowadays unfashionable, problems in philosophy.
God and other minds is a 1967 book by the american philosopher of religion alvin plantinga. He makes a strong case that when this parity claim is appropriately restricted to a single, sound other minds belief, belief in god and belief in other minds do prove epistemically comparable. A study of the rational justification of belief in god cornell paperbacks plantinga, alvin on. Then i was implicitly accepting some variety of classical foundation alism. Cornell university press 1967 authors alvin plantinga university of notre dame abstract this article has no associated abstract. The first part of the book discusses the classic arguments for and against the existence of god.
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