Alvin Plantinga, Date of Birth, Place of Birth

Alvin Plantinga

American Christian philosopher

Date of Birth: 15-Nov-1932

Place of Birth: Ann Arbor, Michigan, United States

Profession: theologian, university teacher, philosopher

Nationality: United States

Zodiac Sign: Scorpio

Alvin Carl Plantinga (born 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 College before accepting an appointment as the John A.
O'Brien Professor of Philosophy at the University of Notre Dame.
He later returned to Calvin College to become the inaugural holder of the Jellema Chair in Philosophy.A prominent Christian philosopher, Plantinga served as president of the Society of Christian Philosophers from 1983 to 1986.
He has delivered the Gifford Lectures two times and was described by Time magazine as "America's leading orthodox Protestant philosopher of God".
William Lane Craig wrote in his work Reasonable Faith that he considers Plantinga to be the greatest Christian philosopher alive.
A fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, he was awarded the Templeton Prize in 2017.Some of Plantinga's most influential works including God and Other Minds (1967), The Nature of Necessity (1974), and a trilogy of books on epistemology, culminating in Warranted Christian Belief (2000) that was simplified in Knowledge and Christian Belief (2016).