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Warrant and Proper Function

By: Alvin Plantinga

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Paperback | 27 May 1993

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Professor Plantinga is known for distinguished work in the fields of epistemology and philosophy of religion. In this companion volume to Warrant: The Current Debate, Plantinga develops an original approach to the question of what justifies belief and makes it knowledge. He argues that what is crucial to turning true belief into knowledge is the "proper functioning" of one''s cognitive faculties, and this clears the way for the proposal that a belief is warranted whenever it is the product of properly functioning cognitive processes. Although this is in some sense a sequel to the companion volume, the arguments in no way presuppose those of the first book and it can therefore stand alone.

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"A must for all epistemologists and philosophers of religion. Seldom is sustained philosophical argument such a joy to read."--Religious Studies Review "...will undoubtedly generate extensive debate because of the breadth of scope, meticulous detail and resourceful argument that are so characteristic of Plantinga's work."--International Studies in Review "The present volume and its two companions raise larger issues and promise to significantly broaden the scope and influence of this epistemological project....There is much that is provocative and of great interest in this new book from Plantinga....readers of the first two volumes will find much food for thought here, and will have their appetites whetted for the third, forthcoming volume of the trilogy."--Mind "A must for all epistemologists and philosophers of religion. Seldom is sustained philosophical argument such a joy to read."--Religious Studies Review "...will undoubtedly generate extensive debate because of the breadth of scope, meticulous detail and resourceful argument that are so characteristic of Plantinga's work."--International Studies in Review "The present volume and its two companions raise larger issues and promise to significantly broaden the scope and influence of this epistemological project....There is much that is provocative and of great interest in this new book from Plantinga....readers of the first two volumes will find much food for thought here, and will have their appetites whetted for the third, forthcoming volume of the trilogy."--Mind

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Warrant: A First Approximation	p. 3
Proper Function	p. 4
The Design Plan	p. 11
Reliability	p. 17
Warrant: Objections and Refinements	p. 21
The Design Plan	p. 21
Two Concluding Comments	p. 42
Exploring the Design Plan: Myself and My Past	p. 48
Knowledge of Myself	p. 48
Memory	p. 57
Other Persons and Testimony	p. 65
Other Persons	p. 65
Testimony	p. 77
Perception	p. 89
Perceptual Belief as Knowledge	p. 89
Perceptual Experience	p. 91
Perceptual Beliefs as Basic	p. 93
Perceptual Beliefs Formed on the Basis of Experience	p. 98
Nature, Nurture, and Perceptual Judgments	p. 99
A Priori Knowledge	p. 102
A Priori Knowledge Initially Characterized	p. 103
A Priori Knowledge Is Knowledge	p. 108
Fallibilistic A Priorism	p. 110
A Priori Knowledge and the Causal Requirements	p. 113
Why Propositions Cannot Be Concrete	p. 117
Back to the Causal Requirement	p. 120
Induction	p. 122
The Old Riddle of Induction	p. 124
The New Riddle of Induction	p. 128
Epistemic Probability: Some Current Views	p. 137
Epistemic Probability and Statistical Probability	p. 139
Theories of Epistemic Probability	p. 142
Epistemic Conditional Probability: The Sober Truth	p. 159
The Two Faces of Epistemic Probability	p. 159
An Account of the Normative Component	p. 165
Replies and Comments	p. 168
Coherence, Foundations, and Evidence	p. 176
Coherence and Foundations	p. 177
Evidentialism	p. 185
Naturalism versus Proper Function?	p. 194
Naturalistic Analyses of Proper Function	p. 199
So What's a Poor Naturalist to Do?	p. 211
Is Naturalism Irrational?	p. 216
The Problem	p. 216
Darwin's Doubt	p. 219
A Preliminary Argument against Naturalism	p. 228
The Main Argument Against Naturalism	p. 229
Index	p. 239
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