On fideism and Alvin Plantinga

The first version of this paper was presented at a summer workshop on Skepticism and Fideism in 1986 at the University of Notre Dame, sponsored by The Society of Christian Philosophers. Subsequent versions have been read at the Mississippi Philosophical Association and the American Academy of Religion. I would like to thank the director of the workshop, Phil L. Quinn, and the participants for providing an intellectual springboard for developing my ideas on the topic of fideism and the proper basicality of theistic belief.