University of Tehran Press Philosophy of Religion 2008-7063 17 4 2020 12 21 A Look at Alvin Plantinga's Attempt to Answer Freud's Doubt on the Origin of Belief in God A Look at Alvin Plantinga's Attempt to Answer Freud's Doubt on the Origin of Belief in God 609 633 78117 10.22059/jpht.2020.305033.1005761 FA Jalal Peykani Associate Professor, Department of Philosophy, Payame Noor University, Tehran, Iran Sadat Hosseini Student of the Department of Philosophy of Religion (Theology), Payame Noor University, Tehran, Iran Mahin Rezaei Assistant Professor, Department of Philosophy, Payame Noor University, Tehran, Iran Zeinab Shakibi Assistant Professor, Department of Philosophy, Payame Noor University, Tehran, Iran Journal Article 2020 05 24 Based on his psychoanalytic principles, Freud provided an analysis of the origin and function of religion that influenced a wide range of twentieth-century thinkers. These influences often played a negative role, so most religious people either rejected Freud's analysis or viewed it with skepticism. Plantinga is one of the thinkers who adopt a relatively special view to Freud's analysis. In this article, we first briefly describe Freud's analysis of the origin and function of religion. We then present Plantinga's view on Freud's analysis, and finally show what role Plantinga's attention to Freud plays in the formation of Plantinga's religious epistemology. That is, one of Plantinga's main motives in discussing the theory of the fundamentality of belief in God, sensus divinitatis, and the theory of warranted belief is to avoid facing the doubt raised by Freud. However, a study of Plantinga's religious epistemology shows that his solution is not adequate, and that Freud's doubt cannot be answered through the way Plantinga has adopted. Based on his psychoanalytic principles, Freud provided an analysis of the origin and function of religion that influenced a wide range of twentieth-century thinkers. These influences often played a negative role, so most religious people either rejected Freud's analysis or viewed it with skepticism. Plantinga is one of the thinkers who adopt a relatively special view to Freud's analysis. In this article, we first briefly describe Freud's analysis of the origin and function of religion. We then present Plantinga's view on Freud's analysis, and finally show what role Plantinga's attention to Freud plays in the formation of Plantinga's religious epistemology. That is, one of Plantinga's main motives in discussing the theory of the fundamentality of belief in God, sensus divinitatis, and the theory of warranted belief is to avoid facing the doubt raised by Freud. However, a study of Plantinga's religious epistemology shows that his solution is not adequate, and that Freud's doubt cannot be answered through the way Plantinga has adopted. https://jpht.ut.ac.ir/article_78117_2036d97efe3a6c5c45d914849955bb22.pdf