The Evolutionary Argument against Naturalism

This is the most powerful defense to date of Alvin Plantinga’s Evolutionary Argument Against Naturalism. Slagle deftly shows that our modern belief in naturalism conflicts with belief content, truth-value, and relevance thus rendering our cognitive processes unreliable. We can rationally accept evolution only by rejecting naturalism. A hugely important study. * Paul Herrick, Professor of Philosophy, Shoreline Community College, USA *
In this book, Slagle offers a careful and well thought out reconstruction and defense of Plantinga’s proper function epistemology and, especially, his Evolutionary Argument Against Naturalism (EAAN). He defends various versions of the EAAN against a broad array of objections, including mine. In doing so, he makes the most thorough defense of Plantinga’s EAAN that I know of. I highly recommend this book to anyone seriously interested in Plantinga’s EAAN. * William J. Talbott, Professor of Philosophy, University of Washington, Seattle, USA *
Like Anselm’s ontological argument, McTaggart’s argument for the unreality of time and many other celebrated philosophical arguments, Plantinga’s Evolutionary Arguments Against Naturalism is as intriguing as it is controversial. Jim Slagle shows why. But he is not an innocent by-stander. He ably discusses many objections that have been brought against it. In defence of it. A must-read for everyone who is seriously interested in philosophical naturalism. * Rene van Woudenberg, Department of Philosophy, Vrije Universiteit, the Netherlands *