Full name: God and Other Minds: A Study of the Rational Justification of Belief in God

Author: Alvin Plantinga Year: 1968 Rank: Rating: Original Rating: Pop Rating: Genres/categories: Philosophy, Religion, Non Fiction Purchase/reserch links: LibraryThing Goodreads Amazon ISBNs: 9780801497353 0801497353

In this book Alvin Plantinga wrestles with one of the central issues in the philosophy of religion: can belief in God be rationally justified? Plantinga reviews in detail the traditional and modern arguments for and against the existence of God and concludes that all fail. He then turns to the related philosophical problem of the existence of other minds and defends the so-called analogical argument against current criticisms. He goes on to show, however, that although this argument affords us the best reasons we have for belief in other minds, it finally succumbs to the same problems that beset the teleological argument for God. In his brilliantly resoned conclusion, the author holds that "belief in other minds and belief in God are in the same epistemological boat; hence if either is rational, so is the other. But obviously the former is rational; so, therefore, is the latter." Similar books: God, Freedom, and Evil by Alvin Plantinga The Existence of God by Richard Swinburne Philosophy of Religion by C. Stephen Evans Plato at the Googleplex by Rebecca Goldstein The World as Will and Idea by Arthur Schopenhauer Philosophy For Dummies by Tom Morris Introduction to philosophy by Jacques Maritain Modes of Thought by Alfred North Whitehead Philosophy by Philip Stokes An Inquiry Concerning Human Understanding by David Hume Major Works: Selected Philosophical Writings by Ludwig Wittgenstein The Last Word by Thomas Nagel Matter and Memory by Henri Bergson Spinoza by Roger Scruton The Heart of Philosophy by Jacob Needleman An Intelligent Person's Guide to Philosophy by Roger Scruton The Way of Zen by Alan Watts Works of Love by Soren Kierkegaard Zen in the Art of Archery by Eugen Herrigel The Unfettered Mind by Takuan Soho