Going down Plantinga Lane

The (mis)use of a Bayesian inference framework has always seemed to me to be a problem with Plantinga: Bad priors in, bad posteriors out.

This explains something about Alvin Plantinga:

He says many people wonder why he left his faculty position at Calvin College to go to Notre Dame. “It’s actually quite simple,” he said, “I wanted to become Pope, and there has never been a pope from any university with the name Calvin.” He said he thought it would be fun to be the first Protestant Pope, and the University of Notre Dame would help him get closer to that goal. But he said he quickly found out that “becoming Pope is harder than you might think,” so his dream is still not realized.
blog.drwile.com/?p=4316

What are the odds?

Plantinga is a foundationalist (who happens to be a theist), and many of those who argue against Plantinga's approach are other foundationalists (who are atheists). They are playing on the same field (of foundationalism). But the antifoundationalist would likely find other arguments to counter Plantinga.


Foundationalism vs. Antifoundationalism
   cwrl.utexas.edu/~longaker/rhe330d/foundationalismvsantifoundationalism.ppt
Christian apologist[s] in the news (William Craig Lane, Alvin Plantinga) July 5, 2013
   patheos.com/blogs/geneveith/2013/07/christian-apologist-in-the-news/