Colleen Keating, who's acquaintance I recently made, commented on my post about the new Plantinga volume that there's audio of an interview here. It won't be anything new to most readers, but I wanted to draw more attention to it, so I'm posting it here top level. I listened to it and it's pretty interesting.
He gives a standard summary of EAAN and touches briefly on his more recent article contra Kim, then the interviewer asks:
"What have some of the criticisms been?"
"A lot of the criticisms have just been to say 'that's nuts' or 'that's crazy' or 'good grief'."
I can honestly say that I've heard the last one offered, not even kidding.
He refers the the reader to the volume _Has Naturalism Been Refuted?_ but says that none of the criticisms there work out and adds that he "can't think of any strong criticisms."
The epistemology is what interests me most, and I was pleased to here him give a defense of the Principle of Indifference against Bertrand's paradox. However, I'm losing confidence in his epistemically degenerative pill analogy. I'm not really sure there's a defeater there.
I was a bit miffed that though he gave a long list of precursors for EAAN--including Nietzsche an Stephen J. Gould--but not C.S. Lewis--though he footnotes Lewis in Warrant and Proper Function.
The main website is here and there is even a pretty good discussion of the argument in the forum. I think Al will be pleased.
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Trent,
glad I was not alone in catching the slight against Lewis. From the first time I ever heard of Plantinga's EAAN, let alone from his Podcast comments, I was reminded strongly of Lewis very cogent argument in his essay "The Poison of Subjectivism" (in Transpositions and Other Addresses--I think), and of course in the magnificent "Meditation in a Toolshed." (in God in the Dock) These are two of Lewis meisterwerks in my thinking.
Anyone here with an interest in the EAAN and who would like to write an encyclopedia entry on it? If so, send me an email.
Thanks for mentioning the interview. I didn't realise I had managed to score a first of type. Neat !
Thanks for the various recommendations on my request above. We now have someone writing an article on the EAAN.