Editing Alvin Plantinga (section)

=== Teaching career ===
Plantinga began his career as an instructor in the philosophy department at Yale in 1957, and then in 1958, he became a professor of philosophy at [[Wayne State University]] during its heyday as a major center for analytic philosophy. In 1963, he accepted a teaching job at Calvin University, where he replaced the retiring Jellema.<ref>"Self-profile", p. 30.</ref> He then spent the next 19 years at Calvin before moving to the [[University of Notre Dame]] in 1982. He retired from the University of Notre Dame in 2010 and returned to Calvin University, where he holds the first William Harry Jellema Chair in Philosophy. He has trained [[metaphysics]] and [[epistemology]]-focused philosophers including [[Michael Bergmann (philosopher)|Michael Bergmann]], [[Michael Rea]], and [[Trenton Merricks]].