Carl plantinga biography

ALVIN CARL PLANTINGA (born November 15, 1932, Ann Arbor, Michigan) is an American analytic philosopher, the John A. O'Brien Professor of Philosophy Emeritus at the University of Notre Dame and the inaugural holder of the Jellema Chair in Philosophy at Calvin College.
Alvin Carl Plantinga (born November 15, 1932) is an American analytic philosopher who works primarily in the fields of philosophy of religion, epistemology.
Alvin Carl Plantinga is an American analytic philosopher who works primarily in the fields of philosophy of religion, epistemology, and logic.

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Carl R. Plantinga

Carl Plantinga, Senior Research Fellow at Calvin University and former Arthur H. DeKruyter Chair of Communication, writes about topics in film and media theory. He has a Ph.D. in Communication (Film) from the University of Wisconsin-Madison, where wrote his dissertation under under David Bordwell and Noël Carroll. He also has an M.A. from the University of Iowa and a B.A. from Calvin University, where he majored in philosophy and studied with aesthetician Nicholas Wolterstorff. Plantinga has written extensively about film and emotion, film and ethics, documentary film, and cognitive film theory generally. He is the past president of the Society for Cognitive Studies of the Moving Image and is the recipient of major grants from the Templeton Religion Trust. He has written four books and edited three more. He is currently at work on a monograph entitled "Narrative/Character Engagement and the Moral Imagination."

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Alvin Plantinga

Alvin Carl Plantinga is an American analytic philosopher, the John A. O’Brien Professor of Philosophy Emeritus at the University of Notre Dame and the inaugural holder of the Jellema Chair in Philosophy at Calvin College.

Plantinga is widely known for his work in philosophy of religion, epistemology, metaphysics and Christian apologetics. He is the author of numerous books including God and Other Minds, The Nature of Necessity, and a trilogy of books on epistemology, culminating in Warranted Christian Belief. He has delivered the Gifford Lectures three times and was described by Time Magazine as “America’s leading orthodox Protestant philosopher of God”.

During his first semester at Calvin College, Plantinga was awarded a scholarship to attend Harvard University, where he spent two semester. Plantinga attended a few philosophy classes at Calvin College, and was so impressed with Calvin philosophy professor William Harry Jellema that he returned to study philosophy under him. Plantinga began his graduate studies at the University

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Alvin Plantinga

American Christian philosopher

Alvin Carl Plantinga^[a] (born November 15, 1932) is an American analytic philosopher who works primarily in the fields of philosophy of religion, epistemology (particularly on issues involving epistemic justification), and logic.

From 1963 to 1982, Plantinga taught at Calvin University before accepting an appointment as the John A. O'Brien Professor of Philosophy at the University of Notre Dame.^[2] He later returned to Calvin University to become the inaugural holder of the Jellema Chair in Philosophy.^[3]

A prominent Christian philosopher, Plantinga served as president of the Society of Christian Philosophers from 1983 to 1986. He has delivered the Gifford Lectures twice and was described by Time magazine as "America's leading orthodox Protestant philosopher of God".^[4] In 2014, Plantinga was the 30th most-cited contemporary author in the Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy.^[5] A fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, he was awarded the Templeton Prize in 2017.