{"id":9358,"date":"2012-09-17T14:02:40","date_gmt":"2012-09-17T14:02:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2012\/09\/17\/thomas-nagel-reviews-alvin-plantinga\/"},"modified":"2012-09-17T14:02:40","modified_gmt":"2012-09-17T14:02:40","slug":"thomas-nagel-reviews-alvin-plantinga","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2012\/09\/17\/thomas-nagel-reviews-alvin-plantinga\/","title":{"rendered":"Thomas Nagel Reviews Alvin Plantinga"},"content":{"rendered":"

Plantinga's latest is entitled, Where the Conflict Really Lies: Science, Religion, and Naturalism<\/em>. Here<\/a> is Nagel's review.  Like everything Nagel publishes, it is well worth careful reading.  The review ends as follows:<\/span><\/p>\n

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The interest of this book, especially for secular readers, is its presentation from the inside of the point of view of a philosophically subtle and scientifically informed theist\u2014an outlook with which many of them will not be familiar. Plantinga writes clearly and accessibly, and sometimes acidly\u2014in response to aggressive critics of religion like Dawkins and Daniel Dennett. His comprehensive stand is a valuable contribution to this debate.<\/span><\/p>\n

I say this as someone who cannot imagine believing what he believes. But even those who cannot accept the theist alternative should admit that Plantinga\u2019s criticisms of naturalism are directed at the deepest problem with that view\u2014how it can account for the appearance, through the operation of the laws of physics and chemistry, of conscious beings like ourselves, capable of discovering those laws and understanding the universe that they govern. Defenders of naturalism have not ignored this problem, but I believe that so far, even with the aid of evolutionary theory, they have not proposed a credible solution. Perhaps theism and materialist naturalism are not the only alternatives.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

I didn't finish my series of detailed posts on Plantinga's Where the Conflict Lies<\/em>, but here are  the ones I posted:<\/span><\/p>\n

Notes on the Preface<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n

Notes on Chapter One<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n

Plantinga Versus Dawkins: Organized Complexity<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n

Can God Break a Law of Nature<\/a>?<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Plantinga's latest is entitled, Where the Conflict Really Lies: Science, Religion, and Naturalism. Here is Nagel's review.  Like everything Nagel publishes, it is well worth careful reading.  The review ends as follows: The interest of this book, especially for secular readers, is its presentation from the inside of the point of view of a philosophically … Continue reading “Thomas Nagel Reviews Alvin Plantinga”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[238,448],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9358","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-naturalism","category-science-and-religion"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9358","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9358"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9358\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9358"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9358"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9358"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}