Some of you may have missed this debate between Richard Gale and Alvin Plantinga held at University of Tennessee, October 2008, The Existence of Evil and the Problem of God. It gets informal pretty quickly with Gale speculating on what’s in the water at Notre Dame and insisting (again) on a “modal intuition bowl”.
Gale & Plantinga on God and Evil
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Thanks for the link, MIke.
If there's a modal intuition bowl, PvI should be invited to straighten everyone out. ;-)
Gale is very funny, I think, and refreshingly frank. It's an entertaining discussion. Incidentally, the first time Gale proposed a modal intuition bowl (in his CUP book, I believe), I'm pretty sure it was directed to van Inwagen. I'm not sure how modally conservative PvI was at the time, though! The world in dispute (if you haven't listened ot it all) between Gale and Plantinga is one in which everyone spends his life with his head just above water, always on the verge of drowning, and chanting "nobody make waves". Maybe I shouldn't find that as funny as I do.