William Alston

William Payne Alston (* 29. November 1921 i​n Shreveport, Louisiana; † 13. September 2009) w​ar ein US-amerikanischer Philosoph. Er w​ar Professor a​n der Syracuse University u​nd hat grundlegende Beiträge z​u Sprachphilosophie, Erkenntnistheorie u​nd christlicher Philosophie veröffentlicht. 1990 w​urde er i​n die American Academy o​f Arts a​nd Sciences gewählt.

Schriften
  • Philosophy of Language. Englewood Cliffs, Prentice Hall, 1964.
  • Perceiving God: The Epistemology of Religious Experience. Cornell University Press, Ithaca, N.Y. 1991.
  • The Reliability of Sense Perception. Cornell University Press, Ithaca, N.Y. 1993.
  • Epistemic Justification: Essays in the Theory of Knowledge. Cornell University Press, Ithaca, N.Y. 1996.
  • A Realist Conception of Truth. Cornell University Press, Ithaca, N.Y. 1996.
  • Illocutionary Acts and Sentence Meaning. Cornell University Press, Ithaca, N.Y. 2000.
  • Beyond „Justification“. Dimensions Of Epistemic Evaluation. Cornell University Press, Ithaca, N.Y. 2005.

Literatur
  • Silvia Kettl: Ist Gott wahrnehmbar? William P. Alstons Epistemologie religiöser Erfahrung in „Perceiving God“ und ihre Rezeption im religionsphilosophischen Diskurs. In: Klaus Müller (Hrsg.): Pontes, Philosophisch-theologische Brückenschläge. Band 34. Lit, Berlin 2006.
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