The world-renowned philosopher Alvin C. Plantinga has recently received the prestigious Nicholas Rescher Prize for Contributions to Systematic Philosophy,
awarded by the University of Pittsburgh’s Departments of Philosophy,
History and Philosophy of Science Department, and the Center for the
History and Philosophy of Science. Plantinga is widely known for his
work in the philosophy of religion,
epistemology, metaphysics and
Christian apologetics, and he has revolutionized scholarly interest in
Christian theism, shown naturalism/atheism to be self-refuting and
incoherent, and set the new standards for the defense of free will,
individual agency, consciousness, rational inference, science, objective
truth and morality, and more. As a result, Plantinga has both directly
influenced the entire field of philosophy and has mentored and inspired
new generations of top scholars who are critiquing the reductionism,
relativism, materialism, collectivism, scientism, positivism,
determinism, and de-humanization of the modern era. In short, Plantinga
has devastated the prevailing view in Western elites that human beings
are merely “matter in motion” (i.e., purposeless, accidental, robotic
products of a closed, natural world ruled solely by physical laws and
that truth, reason, morality, and God are illusions).
Plantinga is the inaugural holder of the Jellema Chair in Philosophy at Calvin College, the John A. O’Brien Professor of Philosophy Emeritus at the University of Notre Dame, and a member of the Board of Advisors for the Center on Culture and Civil Society at the Independent Institute. He received his Ph.D. in philosophy from Yale University, he has served as President of the American Philosophical Association (Western Division) and Society of Christian Philosophers, and he has delivered the Gifford Lectures in Scotland three times. (continue reading at The Independent Institute, http://blog.independent.org/2013/02/02/alvin-planinga-receives-prestigious-rescher-prize/)
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