William Alston
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William Payne Alston (November 29, 1921 – September 13, 2009) was an American philosopher. He is widely considered to be one of the most important
Early life and education
Alston was born to Eunice Schoolfield and William Alston on November 29, 1921, in
Career
From 1949 until 1971, Alston was a professor at the
Together with Alvin Plantinga, Nicholas Wolterstorff, Robert Adams, and Michael L. Peterson, Alston helped to found the journal Faith and Philosophy.[8] With Plantinga, Wolterstorff, and others, Alston was also responsible for the development of "Reformed epistemology" (a term that Alston, an Episcopalian, never fully endorsed), one of the most important contributions to Christian thought in the twentieth century.[9] Alston was president of the Western Division (now the Central Division) of the American Philosophical Association in 1979, the Society for Philosophy and Psychology, and the Society of Christian Philosophers, which he co-founded. He was widely recognized as one of the core figures in the late twentieth-century revival of the philosophy of religion.[10][11] He was elected a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 1990.[12]
Death
Alston died in a nursing home in Jamesville, New York, on September 13, 2009, at the age of 87.[5]
Bibliography
- Beyond "Justification": Dimensions of Epistemic Evaluation, ISBN 978-0-8014-7332-6
- A Sensible Metaphysical Realism (The Aquinas Lecture, 2001), ISBN 978-0-8746-2168-6
- Illocutionary Acts and Sentence Meaning, Ithaca, New York: Cornell University Press, 2000. ISBN 978-0-8014-3669-7
- A Realist Conception of Truth, Ithaca, New York: Cornell University Press, 1996. ISBN 978-0-8014-8410-0
- Epistemic Justification: Essays in the Theory of Knowledge, Ithaca, New York: Cornell University Press, 1996. ISBN 978-0-8014-9544-1
- The Reliability of Sense Perception, Ithaca, New York: Cornell University Press, 1993. ISBN 978-0-8014-8101-7
- ISBN 978-0-8014-8155-0
- Divine Nature and Human Language: Essays in Philosophical Theology. Ithaca, New York: Cornell University Press, 1989. ISBN 978-0-8014-9545-8
- Philosophy of Language, Englewood Cliffs, Prentice Hall, 1964
See also
References
- ^ OCLC 927145544.
- ^ Encyclopedia of Philosophy– via Encyclopedia.com.
- ISBN 978-1-84465-679-0. Retrieved December 9, 2013.
- ^ ISBN 978-1-84371-037-0. Archived from the original(PDF) on September 6, 2021. Retrieved December 8, 2013.
- ^ a b "William Payne Alston Obituary". The Post-Standard. September 20, 2009. Retrieved December 9, 2013.
- ^ "Emeritus professor of philosophy William Payne Alston dies". Syracuse University. September 18, 2009. Archived from the original on March 5, 2016. Retrieved December 9, 2013.
- ^ "The Aquinas Lecture in Philosophy i". Marquette University Press. Retrieved December 10, 2013.
- ISSN 0739-7046.
- S2CID 170253486.
- ^ "William P. Alston". Centenary College of Louisiana. Archived from the original on December 13, 2013. Retrieved December 10, 2013.
- ^ "APA Divisional Presidents and Addresses". American Philosophical Association. Retrieved August 11, 2018.
- ^ "Book of Members, 1780–2010: Chapter A" (PDF). American Academy of Arts and Sciences. p. 11. Retrieved December 9, 2013.
Further reading
- Battaly, Heather D.; Lynch, Michael Patrick (2005). Perspectives on the Philosophy of William P. Alston. Rowman & Littlefield. ISBN 978-0-7425-1424-9.
- Feneuil, Anthony (2012). "Percevoir Dieu? Henri Bergson et William P. Alston" [Perceiving God? Henri Bergson and William P. Alston]. ThéoRèmes (in French) (2). ISSN 1664-0136.