This study explores how successful Alvin Plantinga is in his contention that belief in God can be obtained and maintained in a basic way that attains and retains rationality for reflective persons. Plantinga indeed calls into question any confident presumption that theistic belief is epistemically irresponsible. He not only seriously challenges the necessity for propositional evidence to be available for such belief to be justified, he also supplies significant support for the conclusion that it remains legitimate even if it faces a preponderance of contrary considerations. However, Plantinga does not convincingly demonstrate that basic theistic belief merits privileged status by virtue of a character sufficiently analogous to paradigmatic perceptual, memory and ascriptive beliefs. Nor does he adequately argue its independence from the bearing of evidentialist concerns, especially regarding its background moorings. He needs to do more work to show the full warrant for theistic belief.

Der Komponist und Klangkünstler Alvin Lucier ist einer der Mitbegründer der Live Electronic Music-Szene der 60er Jahre in den USA. Vergangenes Jahr feierte er seinen 80. Geburtstag. Im Dezember 2009 widmete sich das SOLOLALA Festival, eine Veranstaltungsreihe des ausland Berlin unter der Leitung von Gregor Hotz, Alvin Luciers Solo-Stücken. Fünf seiner Stücke wurden hierfür von fünf Performerinnen neu interpretiert, darunter zwei seiner bekanntesten, "Music for Solo Performer" (1965) und "I Am Sitting in a Room" (1970). Der Beitrag führt Interviews und Statements der Beteiligten – Performerinnen, Techniker, Lichtdesignerin und Kurator – zusammen. In dieser Vielstimmigkeit wirft er den Blick auf das Solo als Teamarbeit, die Aufführungspraxis in Musik und Performancekunst und fragt nach der inspirierenden Essenz von Luciers langjährigem Schaffen.

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