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William Alston

Philosophy

#61

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#193

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#25

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Philosophy of Religion

#3

World Rank

#3

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#3

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Epistemology

#10

World Rank

#14

Historical Rank

#9

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Metaphysics

#17

World Rank

#36

Historical Rank

#10

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PhD Philosophy University of Chicago
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According to Wikipedia, William Payne Alston was an American philosopher. He is widely considered to be one of the most important epistemologists and philosophers of religion of the twentieth century, and is also known for his work in metaphysics and the philosophy of language. His views on foundationalism, internalism and externalism, speech acts, and the epistemic value of mystical experience, among many other topics, have been very influential. He earned his PhD from the University of Chicago and taught at the University of Michigan, Rutgers University, University of Illinois, and Syracuse University.

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William Alston's Published Works

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Published Works

Knowledge and the Flow of Information (1985) (2177)
Philosophy of Language (1964) (366)
Concepts of Epistemic Justification (1985) (269)
Perceiving God: The Epistemology of Religious Experience (1991) (240)
Epistemic Justification: Essays in the Theory of Knowledge.Divine Nature and Human Language: Essays in Philosophical Theology (1989) (215)
Metaphor and Religious Language (1987) (212)
Illocutionary acts and sentence meaning (2000) (201)
An internalist externalism (1988) (193)
The Reliability Of Sense Perception (1994) (164)
Internalism and Externalism in Epistemology (1986) (158)
THE INDUCTIVE ARGUMENT FROM EVIL AND THE HUMAN COGNITIVE CONDITION (1991) (120)
Beyond "Justification": Dimensions of Epistemic Evaluation (2004) (120)
How to Think about Reliability (1995) (110)
Traits, consistency and conceptual alternatives for personality theory. (1975) (98)
Level-Confusions in Epistemology (1980) (95)
Two Types of Foundationalism (1976) (94)
A Realist Conception of Truth (1997) (89)
Back to the Theory of Appearing (1999) (76)
Does God have Beliefs? (1986) (73)
What's wrong with immediate knowledge? (1983) (62)
Ontological commitments (1958) (55)
Pragmatism and the verifiability theory of meaning (1955) (53)
Locke on people and substances (1988) (45)
Pleasures and pains : a theory of qualitative hedonism (1982) (44)
COMMENTS ON KOHLBERG'S “FROM IS TO OUGHT”1 (1971) (44)
Has foundationalism been refuted? (1976) (38)
Divine Nature And Human Language (1989) (35)
Can Psychology do Without Private Data (1973) (31)
Religious Experience and Religious Belief (1982) (31)
Meaning and Use (1963) (30)
Illocutionary acts and linguistic meaning (2002) (29)
Introduction to the philosophy of religion (1953) (28)
Realism and the Christian faith (1995) (28)
Religious Diversity and Perceptual Knowledge of God (1988) (28)
Christianity And Paradox (1958) (27)
VI.—THE QUEST FOR MEANINGS (1963) (26)
The Ontological Argument Revisited (1960) (25)
Sellars and the "Myth of the Given" (2002) (24)
Identity and cardinality: Geach and Frege (1984) (23)
God and Skepticism. (1985) (21)
Perception and Representation (2005) (21)
Some Suggestions for Divine Command Theorists (2014) (20)
Pleasure and Desire: The Case for Hedonism Reviewed. (1972) (19)
The Place of the Explanation of Particular Facts in Science (1971) (18)
Substance and the Trinity (2002) (18)
Referring to God (1988) (17)
Taking the Curse Off Language-Games: A Realist Account of Doxastic Practices (1995) (17)
The Burning Fountain; a Study in the Language of Symbolism (1956) (16)
Why Alston's Mystical Doxastic Practice Is Subjective@@@Perceiving God: The Epistemology of Religious Experience. (1994) (16)
Moral Attitudes and Moral Judgments (1968) (15)
Divine foreknowledge and alternative conceptions of human freedom (1985) (15)
Particulars--Bare and Qualified (1954) (13)
Reid on Perception and Conception (1989) (13)
Divine action, human freedom, and the laws of nature. (1993) (13)
4.3 'SOME (TEMPORARILY) FINAL THOUGHTS ON EVIDENTIAL ARGUMENTS FROM EVIL' (2001) (12)
Meta-Ethics and Meta-Epistemology (1978) (12)
Divine-Human Dialogue and the Nature of God (1985) (12)
Realism/Antirealism and Epistemology (1997) (12)
Externalist Theories of Perception (1990) (11)
A sensible metaphysical realism (2001) (10)
Pragmatism and the Theory of Signs in Peirce (1956) (10)
Psychoanalytic Theory and Theistic Belief (1964) (10)
Plantinga’s Epistemology of Religious Belief (1985) (9)
Conceptual Prolegomena to a Psychological Theory of Intentional Action (1974) (9)
Some Remarks on Chisholm's Epistemology (1980) (8)
The autonomy of religious experience (1992) (8)
Swinburne's Argument for Dualism (1994) (8)
Whitehead's Denial of Simple Location (1951) (7)
On the Existence and Nature of God. (1993) (7)
2. The Perception of God (1988) (7)
Dispositions and Occurrences (1971) (6)
Epistemology and Metaphysics (2006) (6)
Yes, Virginia, There is a Real World (1979) (6)
Faith and Criticism (1997) (6)
Philosophy in America : essays (1965) (6)
God and the Ethics of Belief: Two Cheers for Mystery! (2005) (5)
Perception and Mystical Experience@@@Perceiving God: The Epistemology of Religious Experience. (1994) (5)
Biblical Criticism and the Resurrection (1998) (5)
Philosophical analysis and structural linguistics (1962) (5)
Mysticism and Perceptual Awareness of God (2008) (5)
Swinburne and Christian theology (1997) (4)
Perceiving God in Eighty-third Annual Meeting, American Philosophical Association, Eastern Division. (1986) (4)
Goldman on epistemic justification (1989) (4)
Conceptual analysis and psychological theory. (1992) (4)
The "Challenge" of Externalism (2004) (4)
Does religious experience justify religious belief (2004) (4)
RELIGIOUS BELIEF AND VALUES (2001) (4)
Are Positivists Metaphysicians (1954) (4)
Ziff's Semantic Analysis (1962) (3)
Doing Epistemology without Justification (2001) (3)
An action-plan interpretation of Purposive Explanations of Actions (1986) (3)
Words and Images. (1959) (3)
John Hick: Faith and Knowledge (1993) (3)
Response to Hick (1997) (3)
Precis of Perceiving God@@@Perceving God: The Epistemology of Religious Experience. (1994) (3)
Reply to Commentators (1994) (2)
Foley's Theory of Epistemic Rationality@@@The Spatial Structure of Perceptual Space. (1989) (2)
Sentence Meaning and Illocutionary Act Potential (1977) (2)
Man seeks the divine (1957) (2)
Reply to Daniels (1989) (2)
Faith, Reason, and Existence (1958) (2)
The Place of Experience in the Grounds of Religious Belief (1992) (2)
Religious Disagreements and Doxastic Practices@@@Perceiving God: The Epistemology of Religious Experience. (1994) (2)
Reference and Meaning (2012) (1)
The Problems of Philosophy Introductory Readings (1967) (1)
Dretske on knowledge (1983) (1)
Purposive Explanation in Psychology. Margaret A. Boden. Harvard University Press, Cambridge, Mass., 1972. xii, 408 pp. $13.50 (1972) (1)
Tillich on Idolatry (1958) (1)
The Distinctiveness of the Epistemology of Religious Belief (1999) (1)
Sosa on Realism (2008) (1)
Epistemic Warrant as Proper Function@@@Warrant: The Current Debate.@@@Warrant and Proper Function. (1995) (1)
Theism as theory and the problem of evil (1995) (1)
Response to Critics (1994) (1)
The Rationality of Belief & the Plurality of Faith Essays in Honor of William P. Alston (1995) (1)
The Problems of Philosophy. Edited by William P. Alston [and] Richard B. Brandt. -- (1974) (1)
Religious belief and philosophical thought : readings in the philosophy of religion (1963) (1)
Is a Sense-Datum Language Necessary? (1957) (1)
Perspectives on the Philosophy of William P. Alston (2005) (1)
Dispositions, Occurrences, and Ontology (1978) (1)
Readings In Twentieth-Century Philosophy (2015) (1)
The following books have been received, and many of them are still avail-able for review. Interested reviewers please contact the reviews editor: jim. oshea@ ucd. ie (2005) (0)
Faith, Reason, and Skepticism: Essays (1992) (0)
Problems of Philosophy (2004) (0)
Some Reflections on the Early Days of the Society of Christian Philosophers (1998) (0)
The Journal of Philosophy Internalism, Externalism, and the Architecture of Justification * (2009) (0)
Response to Weitz (1972) (0)
A New Series in Psychological Theory. (1985) (0)
1 TRUTHMAKER AND MAKING TRUE (0)
II. VARIETIES OF PRIVILEGED ACCESS (2016) (0)
Scotland Research Fellowships for the Academic Session 1991-92 Applications are invited for these Research Fellowships for the academic session 1991-92 The fellowships are intended primarily, though not exclusively, for philosophers and political theorists on study leave from their own universities (1990) (0)
Aune on Thought and Language (1969) (0)
Is Alethic Realism Compatible with Metaphysical Anti-Realism? (2002) (0)
What Is Distinctive About the Epistemology of Religious Belief (1999) (0)
The Hypothetical-Deductive Model in Personality Psychology (1986) (0)
3.6 'WHAT EUTHYPHRO SHOULD HAVE SAID' (2001) (0)
The Holy Spirit and the Trinity (1997) (0)
Reply to Pasnau (1993) (0)
Talking Points from Books (1998) (0)
This is a 3,700 word article on William P. Alston in The Dictionary of Modern American Philosophers, Thoemmes Press, forthcoming (2003) (0)

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