Alvin C. Plantinga Collection, 1950-2010 | Heritage Hall, Hekman Library

By Ed Gerritsen, February 2014

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Collection Overview

Abstract

Biographical Note

Administrative Information

Box and Folder Listing

Series 1: [General Materials]

Box 1

Folder 1: Curriculum Vitae

Folder 2: Paper: "Elements of Pre-Socratic Thought in "Phaedo" and the "Times" --- 1951

Folder 3: Paper: "Carlyle and the Problem of Faith" --- 1950's

Folder 4: Paper: "A.E. Taylor: Does God Exist?" --- 1950's

Folder 5: Class Notes on Ethics Courses --- 1950's

Folder 6-7: Papers Written for Class Assignments --- 1950-1954

Folder 8: Class Notes on Contemporary Psychology --- 1952

Folder 9: Class Notes on History of Psychology --- 1952-1953

Folder 10: Class Notes on Theory of Learning --- 1950-1952

Folder 11: Class Notes on 19th Century Prose --- 1952

Folder 12: Class Notes on Advanced General Psychology --- 1952

Folder 13: Paper: "Whitehead's Concept of Causality" --- 1954

Folder 14: Papers:

Item 1: “The metaphysics of Spinoza”

Item 2: “Taylor’s Theistic Arguments” --- 1955

Folder 15: Class notes for Ф of Religion Course at University of Michigan --- 1955

Folder 16: Paper: "Explanation of Ethics" --- 1955

Folder 17: Lecture Notes on Plato-Harvard College --- 1951

Series 2: Correspondence --- 1950-2010

Box 2

Folder 1: 1950-1959

Folder 2-11: 1960-1969

Box 3

Folder 1-3: 1970-1971

Folder 4: Publication of the "The Nature of Necessity" --- 1971-1973

Folder 5-6: 1972

Folder 7: With Tyler --- 1972-1975

Box 4

Folder 1-6: 1973-1975

Box 5

Folder 1-5: 1976-1977

Folder 6: Publication of "God, Freedom and Evil" --- 1977

Folder 7-8: 1978-1979

Box 6

Folder 1-6: 1980-1982

Box 7

Folder 1-6: 1983-1985

Box 8

Folder 1-4: 1986

Box 9

Folder 1-3: 1987

Folder 4: re: Creation/ Evolution --- 1988-1993

Folder 5: Jan-Apr, 1988

Box 10

Folder 1-3: May-Dec, 1988

Folder 4: With Patrick Grimm --- 1988-1991

Folder 5-6: Jan-May, 1989

Box 11

Folder 1-5: Jun 1989-1990

Box 12

Folder 1-4: 1991

Box 13

Folder 1-5: 1992

Box 14

Folder 1-6: 1993

Folder 7: With H. Vantill and J. Stek, re: Evolution etc. --- 1993-1994

Box 15

Folder 1-5: 1994-Mar 1995

Box 16

Folder 1-4: Apr 1995-1996

Box 17

Folder 1-5: 1997-1998

Box 18

Folder 1-8: 1999-2002

Box 19

Folder 1-4: 2003-2006

Folder 5: Publication Rights --- 2005-2007

Folder 6-9: 2007-2010

Series 3: Writings --- 1963-2008, undated

Box 20

Folder 1: "Plantinga on the Free Will Defense" (Clement Dore) --- 1971

Folder 2-3: "Aquinas and Calvin on Faith and Knowledge" --- 1980

Folder 4: "Reason and Scripture Scholarship" --- 1986

Folder 5: "Comments on Plantinga" (R. Feldman) and Reply by A.C.P. --- 1986

Folder 6: "A Modest Professor" (Interview of A.C.P.) --- 1989

Folder 7: "The Necessity of Proper Function" --- 1992

Folder 8-9: "Reid, Hume, and God" --- 1995

Folder 10: Papers Given at Plantinga Symposium --- Jun 1995

Folder 11: "Darwin, Mind, and Meaning" --- 1996

Folder 12: "On Christian Scholarship" --- 1996

Folder 13: "On Being Honest to God" --- nd

Folder 14: "Do We Have a Right to Fight for Opec Oil?" --- nd

Folder 15: "On Actuality" --- nd

Folder 16: "The Paradox of the Heap" --- nd

Folder 17: "Do our Concepts Apply to God?" --- nd

Folder 18: "Precis of Christian Philosophy at End of 20th Century" --- nd

Folder 19: "Plantinga's Account of Epistemic Warrant" --- nd

Folder 20: "What's the Question?" --- nd

Folder 21: "Bonjourian Coherentism" --- nd

Folder 22: "Naturalism Defeated" --- nd

Folder 23: "Warrant and Designing Agents: A Reply to James Taylor" --- nd

Folder 24: "Reply to Sosa and Goldman" --- nd

Folder 25: "Perceiving God" --- nd

Box 21

Folder 1: "Presuppositions of Our Time" --- undated

Folder 2: "Actuality, Truth, and Trust-in" --- nd

Folder 3: "Methodological Naturalism?" --- undated

Folder 4: "On Being Evidentially Challenged" --- nd

Folder 5: "Epistemic Probability, and Evil" --- nd

Folder 6: "An Evolutionary Argument against Naturalism" --- nd

Folder 7: "Divine Knowledge" --- nd

Folder 8: "On Mereological Essentialism," (R.M. Chisholm), A.C.P. Response --- nd

Folder 9: "Existence, Self-Interest, and the Problem of Evil," (R.M.), Reply by A.C.P --- nd

Folder 10: "Reflections on a Methodology for Christian Philosophers," (J. Keller), and Replies --- nd

Folder 11: "Falsification and the Existence of God: A Discussion of Plantinga's Freewill Defense," (G. Rotterwill) --- nd

Folder 12: "Plantinga's Freewill Defense," (W. Hasker) --- nd

Folder 13: "Plantinga and Leibniz's Lapse," (R. Burch) --- nd

Folder 14: "Plantinga on Probability and Evil," (R. Swinburne) --- nd

Folder 15: "God, Plantinga and a Better World" --- nd

Folder 16: "Alvin Plantinga and the Great Pumpkin" --- nd

Folder 17: "Plantinga's Modal Freewill Defense" --- nd

Folder 18: "Can, There is a God be a Basic Belief?" (M. Stewart) --- nd

Folder 19: "Afterword" --- nd

Folder 20: "Plantinga on Functions and the Theory of Evolution" (M. Levin) --- nd

Folder 21: "Transworld Identity-The Unstated Premise of Plantinga's Reformulation of Ontological Argument," (P.M. O'Neil) --- nd

Folder 22: "Christian Theism: Ultimate Reality and Meaning in the Philosophy of Alvin Plantinga," (D, Giutebga) --- nd

Folder 23: "Taking Plantinga Seriously: More Advise to Christian Philosophers," (M. Westphall) --- nd

Folder 24: "Reid, Hume, and God" --- nd

Folder 25: "The Evidentialist Objection to Theistic Belief" --- nd

Box 22

Folder 1: Christianity Today article: "Analytic Philosophy and Christianity" --- 1963

Folder 2: Reformed Journal article: "Radical Theology" --- 1967

Folder 3: Reformed Journal article: "Why Climb Mountains?" --- 1969

Folder 4: Article: "Plantinga's Theology of Proper Names," (D.F. Austin- Notre Dame Journal of Formal Logic) --- 1983

Folder 5: Article: "The Boethian Compromise" and Reply by Diana Akerman --- 1978

Folder 6: Article: "The Probabilistic Argument from Evil" --- 1978

Folder 7: Pro Rege Article: "Modernizing the Case for God," (N. Van Til- response by A.C.P.) --- 1981

Folder 8: Reformed Journal Article: "Sheehan's Shenanigans" --- 1987

Series 4: Articles

Box 22

Folder 9: "Two Concepts of Modality: Modal Realism and Modal Reductionism" --- 1987

Folder 10: "Justification and Theism," (Faith and Philosophy) --- 1987

Folder 11: "Positive Epistemic Status and Proper Function" --- 1988

Folder 12: "The Prospects for Natural Theology" --- 1991

Folder 13: "Truth, Omniscience, and Cantorian Arguments: An Exchange," (By Plantinga and Grim) --- 1992

Folder 14: "Dennett's Dangerous Idea," (Books and Culture) --- 1996

Folder 15: "Twenty Years Worth of SCP," (Faith and Philosophy) --- 1998

Folder 16: "On Proper Basicality" --- 2007

Folder 17: "What is Intervention?," (Theology and Science) --- 2008

Folder 18: "Divine Knowledge" --- nd

Folder 19: "Rejecting the Theory of Common Ancestry" --- nd

Folder 20: "Truth, Omniscience, and Cantorian Arguments," (Plantinga and Grim) --- nd

Folder 21: Natural Theology: "The Esistemology of Religious Belief" --- nd

Folder 22: "Reason and Belief in God" --- nd

Folder 23: "Christian, Scholars, and Christian Scholars" --- nd

Folder 24: "Justification in the 20th Century" --- nd

Folder 25: Notes and Outlines for Oxford Lectures --- nd

Folder 26: Outlines for Glasgow Lectures --- nd

Folder 27: Lecture: "The Reformed Objection to Natural Theology" --- 1980

Folder 28: Address: "How to be an Anti-Realist" --- 1982

Folder 29: Final Draft for "Coherentism and the Evidentialist Objection to Belief in God" --- nd

Box 23

Folder 1: Syllabus for Gifford Lectures --- 1987

Folder 2: Stob Lectures: "Reformed Thinking: Christian Scholarship" and "Christian Thinking: The Twin Pillars"; The Twin Pillars of Christian Scholarship, --- 1989

Folder 3: A.C.P. Comments on Malcom's Paper-Oxford Philosophical Society --- Jan 1976

Folder 4: Draft of "God and Laws of Logic"

Folder 5: Notes and Drafts of Papers on Natural Theology --- nd

Folder 6: Review of "Faith and Rationality: Reason and Belief in God," (M.P. Levine) --- nd

Folder 7: Review of "Language, Persons, and Belief," (Commonweal Magazine) --- 1968

Folder 8: Review of "Plantinga: A Profile" --- nd

Folder 9: Review of "Science and Religion: Why Does the Debate Continued?" --- nd

Folder 10: Critique of Alvin Goldman

Folder 11: Review of "Warrant and Proper Function" --- 1993

Folder 12: Review of "God, Freedom, and Evil," (Reviewed by G. Allen) --- 1975

Folder 13: Review of "Faith and Rationality," (Reviewed by J.E. Tomberlin) --- 1986

Folder 14: Review of "The First Coming: How the Kingdom of God Became Christianity," (T. Sheean) --- nd

Folder 15: Book Reviews of "God and Other Minds" --- nd

Folder 16: Review of "How the Kingdom of God Became Christianity," (Review by A.C.P.) --- nd

Folder 17: A Critical Survey of Plantinga's "Warranted Christian Belief" --- nd

Folder 18: Critique of the Nature of Necessity and Related Material, (R.L. Purtill) --- nd

Folder 19: Critique on Plantinga's View on the Rationality of Belief in God," (A. Kenny) --- nd

Folder 20: Critique on Draper --- nd

Folder 21: Talk on Aquinas --- nd

Folder 22: Chapel Talks --- nd

Box 24

Folder 1: Summer Institute for College Teachers in Philosophy of Religion, Calvin College --- 1973

Folder 2: National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) Summer Seminar --- 1975

Folder 3: Summer Seminar in Philosophy and Religion, Calvin College --- 1978

Folder 4: Notes of Notre Dame Seminar on the Philosophy of Religion --- 1982

Folder 5: American Philosophical Association Officer Nominations --- 1983

Folder 6: Workshop on Christianity and Philosophy, Westmount College --- 1984

Folder 7: Summer Institute in Philosophy of Religion, W. Washington University --- 1985

Folder 8: 25th Philosophical Reunion, Pamplona, Spain --- 1987

Box 25

Folder 1: Dialogue with William Carter

Folder 2: Reply to Sessions and Vanhook --- 1985

Folder 3: Reply to Levine, Steuer, and Robbins --- nd

Folder 4: Reply to Gary Gutting --- nd

Folder 5: Response to William Vallicella --- nd

Folder 6: Comments on Clouser's Claims --- nd

Folder 7: Application for Sabbatical Leave --- nd

Folder 8: Council for Philosophical Studies Material --- 1972

Folder 9: E. Harris Harbison Award for Distinguished Teaching --- 1968

Folder 10: Material Endowment for the Humanities Fellowship --- 1975-1967

Folder 11: Philosophy 331 Course, Wolterstorff on Kant --- 1975

Folder 12: Thesis: "A Study of Plantinga's View about Validity of Religious Belief". (M.A. Mobini) --- nd

Folder 13: Tribute to "KK" (Ken Konyndyk) --- nd

Folder 14: Material re: Rock Climbing

Folder 15: Interview of A.P. --- nd

Folder 16: Interview with Professor A. Plantinga, (Krisis-University of Timiboara) --- nd

Folder 17: Interview with Professor A.C. Plantinga, (A. Varghese) --- 1993

Folder 18: "Parting Reflections," (On Leaving Calvin College for Notre Dame) --- nd

Series 5: Research Material

Box 26

Folder 1: "Coherentism and the Problem of the Criterion," (M.R. DePaul) --- nd

Folder 2: "Tarski's Theory of Truth" --- nd

Folder 3: "Kant's Objection to the Ontological Argument" --- nd

Folder 4: Papers by W. Palston --- nd

Folder 5: "Essays on the Philosophy of R.H. Chisholm," (E. Sosa) --- nd

Folder 6: Papers by Clement Dore

Folder 7: "What is the Theory of Meaning?," (M.A.E. Dummett) --- nd

Folder 8: Papers by K.S. Donnellan

Folder 9: "A Coherence of Truth and Knowledge," (D. Davidson) --- nd

Folder 10: Review of "Does God have a Nature?" --- nd

Folder 11: Interview of Dr. W.R. Jellema by Dr. Dirk Jellema and Herb. Brinks --- nd

Folder 12: Draft of Paper "Omniscience-Immutability Arguments," (R.M. Gale) --- nd

Folder 13: "Christianity and the Class Struggle," (Abraham Kuyper) --- nd

Folder 14: "New Wrinkles on Old Fatalisms" (A. Falk) --- nd

Folder 15: "Can Philosophical Beliefs be Rationally Justified?," (G. Gutting) --- nd

Folder 16: "Concerning the Intelligibility of "God is Timeless"," (W. Hasker) --- nd

Folder 17: "Models and Reality," (H. Putnam) --- 1980

Box 27

Folder 1: "The Philosophical Significance of One Way Speed of Light," (W.C. Salmon) --- nd

Folder 2: "Recent Work on the Mind-Body Problem" and "Mental Events, Bodies, and Persons" (J.A. Shaffer) --- nd

Folder 3: "Classical Analysis," (E. Sosa) --- nd

Folder 4: Mereological Essentialism --- nd

Series 6: Research Material; A Theory of Content and Other Essays, by Jerry Fodor, 1990 --- 1972-1981, undated

Chapters 2 and 3 have marginalia from Plantinga.

Box 27

Folder 5: "Rationality and Religious Belief" --- 1977

Folder 6: "The Sense of the Heart," (W. Edwards) --- nd

Folder 7: Frisian Thought

Folder 8: "Logic, Meaning, and Conceptual Role," Journal of Philosophy --- 1977

Folder 9: The Concept of Evil

Folder 10: "Could God Have Created us in an Idyllic World?," (R.M. Adams) --- nd

Folder 11: "The Probabilistic Problem of Evil," (R. Otte) --- nd

Folder 12: "The Intrinsic Value in Disjunctive States of Affairs" (R.M. Chisholm) --- nd

Folder 13: "Introductory Notes on the Theory of Truth," (Tyler Burge) --- 1972

Folder 14: "Carnapis Inductive Logic," (W.C. Salmon) --- nd

Folder 15: "A Good God," (Ulf Gorman) --- nd

Box 28

Folder 1: "Comments on Alston's "Religious Experience and Religious Belief"," (P. Vaninwagen) --- nd

Folder 2: "The Meaning of a Proper Name," (J. L. Pollock) --- nd

Folder 3: "The Resurrection Hope," (H.S. Strandness) --- nd

Folder 4: "The Problem of Other Minds," (S. Shoemaker) --- nd

Folder 5: "Possible Worlds" and "Propositional Modalities," (J.L. Pollock) --- nd

Folder 6: "A Problem about the Dynamics of Belief" (J. Perry) --- nd

Folder 7: "Explaining the Paradoxes: The Cantorian Way Out," (C. Menzel) --- nd

Folder 8: "Paradoxes, Large Sets, and Proper Classes," (C. Menzel) --- nd

Folder 9: "Could God have Created a Perfect World?," (P. Mellema) --- nd

Folder 10: "A New Actualist Model Semantics," and "A problem for Actualism on Possible Worlds," (A. McMichael) --- nd

Folder 11: "Reflections on Christian Philosophy," (R. McInerny) --- nd

Folder 12: Chapters of Book on the Divine, (R.M. Adams) --- nd

Folder 13: Article: "Leibnz on Possible Worlds" (B. Mates), Paper: "Individuals and Modality in the Philosophy of Leibnz" --- nd

Folder 14: "Bar-on Spinoza's Ontological Proof," (R.B. Marcus) --- nd

Folder 15: "A Proposed Solution to a Puzzle about Belief," (Marcus on Kripke) --- nd

Folder 16: "Space, Yes; Time, No," (Frederick Manfred) --- 1981

Folder 17: "The Virtue of Faith" and "Involuntary Sins," (R.M. Adams) --- nd

Folder 18: "Possible Worlds" and "Plantinga on Possible Worlds," (J.L. Pollock), reply by A.C.P. --- nd

Box 29

Folder 1: "Ratzsch on Kuyper" --- nd

Folder 2: "Fates and Faces of Epistemology," (E. Sosa) --- nd

Folder 3: "A Puzzle about Belief," (S.A. Kripke) --- nd

Folder 4: "Proper Names and Direct Reference on Proper Names in Belief and Ascriptions," (T. McKay) --- nd

Folder 5: "Divine Simplicity," (W.E. Mann) --- nd

Folder 6: "Simplicity and Immutability," (W.E. Mann) --- nd

Folder 7: "Identity and Survival and Related Material" (D. Lewis) --- nd

Folder 8: "Exposition of the Gospel of John," (St. Thomas Aquinas) --- nd

Folder 9: "Sketch of a Theory of Language" "Thinking about an Object," (J.L. Pollock) --- nd

Folder 10: "The Propositional Theory of Language" "Lotteries, Horseraces, Probability and Projection," (J.L. Pollock) --- nd

Folder 11: "Putnam's Paradox," (D. Lewis) --- nd

Folder 12: Articles on Evolution --- nd

Folder 13: "Works and Worlds of Art," (Wolterstorff) --- nd

Folder 14: "Decisional Learning," (N. Wolterstorff) --- nd

Folder 15: Wolterstorff's Writings on Ontology --- nd

Folder 16: "Meaning and Being in Art," (N. Wolterstorff) --- nd

Box 30

Folder 1: Propositional Attitudes, (Diana Akerman) --- nd

Folder 2: Diana Ackerman --- nd

Folder 3: H. Pietersma --- nd

Folder 4: B.C. Van Fraassen --- nd

Folder 5: Richard Foley --- nd

Folder 6: T.P. Flint --- nd

Folder 7: "Accidental Necessity," (A.J. Freddoso) --- nd

Folder 8: "Snapshot Ockhamism," (J. Fischer) --- nd

Folder 9: R.J. Feenstra --- 1977

Folder 10: R.M. Adams --- nd

Folder 11: W.P. Alston --- nd

Folder 12: David Kaplan --- nd

Box 31

Folder 1: Kit Fine --- nd

Folder 2: Thomas Jager --- nd

Folder 3: R.W. Gale --- nd

Folder 4: David Kaplan --- nd

Folder 5: A Theory of Content and Other Essays --- 1990