

I am going to go climbing this August with my friends Ric Otte and Bas van Frassen in California. Plantinga: I’m a rock climber but I’m getting a little long in the tooth for rock climbing.

PN: What do you plan on doing in retirement? Do you have any specific plans? You’re a rock climber, correct? Plantinga: We moved to Grand Rapids, Michigan where we have children and grandchildren, and a brother, and old friends, and Calvin College. PN: I believe I read in your book that you’re in a new home as well. So you just retired from Notre Dame is that correct? PN: I want to start with some personal questions. I was fortunate to spend some time with him recently and talked about his book and how he thinks about this supposed conflict. His book, Where the Conflict Really Lies, is sure to generate a lot of discussion and be the subject of much debate. Plantinga has released a new book taking on the claim that religion and science are incompatible. His most important work has been the Warrant series culminating with Warranted Christian Belief in which he argues that a person can be fully justified in believing in God’s existence even if that belief is not grounded on evidence as it’s typically understood. Plantinga taught at Calvin College in Grand Rapids Michigan and spent most of his long career at Notre Dame University. His influence on the philosophy of religion has been so extensive that Christianity Today recently called him “the greatest philosopher of the last century” and “the most important philosopher of any stripe.” Dr. He has been writing and lecturing on almost all branches of philosophy for all of his long career and has had a tremendous amount of influence on how we think about metaphysics, epistemology, logic, and faith. Alvin Plantinga is one of the foremost living philosophers.
