Warrant: The Current Debate

Warrant: The Current Debate

Author	Alvin Plantinga
Language	English
Subject	Epistemology
Publisher	Oxford University Press
Publication date	1993
Publication place	United States
Pages	228
ISBN	978-0-19-507862-6
Dewey Decimal	121/.6
LC Class	BD161 .P58
Followed by	Warrant and Proper Function

Warrant: The Current Debate is the first in a trilogy of books written by the philosopher Alvin Plantinga on epistemology. Plantinga introduces, analyzes, and criticizes 20th-century developments in analytic epistemology, particularly the works of Roderick Chisholm, Laurence BonJour, William Alston, Alvin Goldman, and others. ^[1] In the 1993 book, Plantinga argues specifically that the theories of what he calls "warrant" – what many others have called justification (Plantinga draws out a difference: justification is a property of a person holding a belief while warrant is a property of a belief) – put forth by these epistemologists have systematically failed to capture in full what is required for knowledge. ^[2]

See also

• Warrant and Proper Function
• Warranted Christian Belief

References

1. Plantinga 1993.
2. Plantinga 1993, p. 3.

Bibliography

• Plantinga, Alvin (1993). Warrant: The Current Debate. New York: Oxford University Press.