Gage, Lucas: A Dual-Warrant Response to Plantinga’s Evolutionary Argument Against Naturalism

Alvin Plantinga’s Evolutionary Argument Against Naturalism (EAAN) contends that the conjunction of naturalism and evolutionary theory generates a “defeater” for the reliability of our cognitive faculties, and thereby for all our beliefs, including naturalism itself. This paper argues that the EAAN fails because it presupposes an epistemological standard—Justified True Belief (JTB)—that is structurally inaccessible to any finite agent. Drawing on a novel dual-warrant epistemological framework, th