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A thinker with this first name added epistemic “virtues” and “vices” to a theory in response to Laurence BonJour’s example of the clairvoyant Norman and developed an example in which Jones is falsely told that he had amnesia. That thinker with this first name cited perception and memory as “appropriate” connections on a knowledge-producing “chain.” A thinker with this first name abandoned the parity argument from a 1967 book in favor of (*) “warrant" as the gap between true belief and knowledge. An advocate of reliabilism with this first name wrote “A Causal Theory of Knowing,” created the “fake barns” Gettier case, and has the surname “Goldman.” A thinker with this first name wrote God and Other Minds and refuted the problem of evil in his free-will defense. For 10 points, give this first name of a developer of reformed epistemology surnamed “Plantinga.” ■END■

ANSWER: Alvin [accept Alvin Plantinga or Alvin Goldman]
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