id author title date pages extension mime words sentences flesch summary cache txt work_pyoqssvuabesxla7iby5phewhe Maarten Boudry Natural Selection Does Care about Truth 2014 13 .pdf application/pdf 6487 556 62 Plantinga, that true beliefs are generally better guides in the world than false ones, meaning that our cognitive systems are not completely reliable, we can still have confidence in our belief in evolutionary naturalism. In a telling passage, Plantinga (2002, 337) claims that the NP properties of a concrete belief stand to its content as a ball shattering a window stands to its being a birthday present. Plantinga's counterfactual argument assumes that any belief content can be associated with any NP state, as if it were an arbitrary label: 'would it not produce the same Belief contents are not arbitrary labels that one can tag to NP properties at will, as Plantinga supposes. From this assessment of our 'naked' and unassisted cognitive faculties, given evolutionary naturalism, Plantinga immediately jumps to the conclusion that scientific (1) Given evolutionary naturalism, our belief producing cognitive faculties are ./cache/work_pyoqssvuabesxla7iby5phewhe.pdf ./txt/work_pyoqssvuabesxla7iby5phewhe.txt