William P. Alston (alston)

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Alston, William P. 1955. “Pragmatism and the Verifiability Theory of Meaning.” Philosophical Studies 6(5): 65–71.
Alston, William P. 1958. “Ontological Commitments.” Philosophical Studies 9(1–2): 8–16. Reprinted in Benacerraf and Putnam (1964).
Alston, William P. 1960. “The Ontological Argument Revisited.” The Philosophical Review 69(4): 452–474. Reprinted in Doney (1967, 278–302).
Alston, William P. 1964a. Philosophy of Language. Englewood Cliffs, New Jersey: Prentice-Hall, Inc.
Alston, William P. 1964b. “Linguistic Acts.” American Philosophical Quarterly 1: 138–146.
Alston, William P. 1964c. “Psychoanalytic Theory and Theistic Belief.” in Faith and the Philosophers, edited by John H. Hick, pp. 63–102. New York: St. Martin’s Press.
Alston, William P. 1964d. “On Sharing Concepts [on MacIntyre (1964)].” in Faith and the Philosophers, edited by John H. Hick, pp. 154–158. New York: St. Martin’s Press.
Alston, William P. 1965. “Expressing.” in Philosophy in America, edited by Max Black, pp. 15–34. Ithaca, New York: Cornell University Press.
Alston, William P. 1967a. “Vagueness.” in The Encyclopedia of Philosophy, edited by Paul Edwards. New York: Macmillan; the Free Press. Reprinted in the second edition (borchert:2005?).
Alston, William P. 1967b. “Wants, Actions, and Causal Explanations.” in Intentionality, Minds, and Perception: Discussions on Contemporary Philosophy. A Symposium, edited by Hector-Neri Castañeda, pp. 301–341. Detroit, Maryland: Wayne State University Press. Proceedings from the Wayne State University Symposium in the Philosophy of Mind, December 1962.
Alston, William P. 1967c. “Rejoinder [to Lehrer (1967)].” in Intentionality, Minds, and Perception: Discussions on Contemporary Philosophy. A Symposium, edited by Hector-Neri Castañeda, pp. 351–356. Detroit, Maryland: Wayne State University Press. Proceedings from the Wayne State University Symposium in the Philosophy of Mind, December 1962.
Alston, William P. 1970. “Unconscious Desires.” in Akten des 14. Internationalen Kongresses für Philosophie, 2.-9. September 1968, volume 5, edited by Leo Gabriel, pp. 95. Wien: Herder.
Alston, William P. 1971a. “Varieties of Privileged Access.” American Philosophical Quarterly 8: 223–241.
Alston, William P. 1971b. “How Does One Tell Whether a Word Has One, Several, Or Many Senses?” in Semantics: An Interdisciplinary Reader in Philosophy, Linguistics, and Psychology, edited by Danny D. Steinberg and Leon A. Jacobovits, pp. 35–47. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
Alston, William P. 1971c. “Dispositions and Occurrences.” Canadian Journal of Philosophy 1(2): 125–154. Reprinted as “Dispositions, Occurrences, and Ontology” in Tuomela (1978, 359–388).
Alston, William P. 1971d. “Comments on Kohlberg’s ‘From Is to Ought’ [on Kohlberg (1971)].” in Cognitive Development and Epistemology, edited by Theodore Mischel, pp. 269–284. New York: Academic Press.
Alston, William P. 1972. “Response to Weitz [on Weitz (1972)].” Philosophic Exchange 3: 239–247.
Alston, William P. 1974. “Conceptual Prolegomena to a Psychological Theory of Intentional Action.” in Philosophy of Psychology, edited by Curtis Brown, pp. 71–101. London: MacMillan Publishing Co.
Alston, William P. 1976a. “Self-Warrant: A Neglected Form of Privileged Access.” American Philosophical Quarterly 13(4): 125–154.
Alston, William P. 1976b. “Two Types of Foundationalism.” The Journal of Philosophy 73: 165–185.
Alston, William P. 1977. “Sentence Meaning and Illocutionary Act Potential.” Philosophic Exchange 8: 17–35.
Alston, William P. 1978. “Meta-Ethics and Meta-Epistemology.” in Values and Morals: Essays in Honor of William Frankena, Charles Stevenson, and Richard Brandt, edited by Alvin I. Goldman and Jaegwon Kim, pp. 275–298. Philosophical Studies Series n. 13. Dordrecht: D. Reidel Publishing Co.
Alston, William P. 1980. “Level-Confusions in Epistemology.” in Midwest Studies in Philosophy 5: Studies in Epistemology, edited by Peter A. French, Theodore E. Uehling Jr., and Howard K. Wettstein, pp. 135–150. Minneapolis, Minnesota: University of Minnesota Press.
Alston, William P. 1983a. “What’s Wrong with Immediate Knowledge?” Synthese 55: 73–96.
Alston, William P. 1983b. “Christian Experience and Christian Belief.” in Faith and Rationality: Reason and Belief in God, edited by Alvin Plantinga and Nicholas Wolterstorff, pp. 103–134. Notre Dame, Indiana: University of Notre Dame Press.
Alston, William P. 1985a. “Concepts of Epistemic Justification.” The Monist 68(1): 57–89, doi:10.5840/monist198568116.
Alston, William P. 1985b. “Thomas Reid on Epistemic Principles.” History of Philosophy Quarterly 2(4): 435–452.
Alston, William P. 1985c. “Plantinga’s Epistemology of Religious Belief.” in Alvin Plantinga, edited by James E. Tomberlin and Peter van Inwagen, pp. 289–312. Profiles n. 5. Dordrecht: D. Reidel Publishing Co., doi:10.1007/978-94-009-5223-2.
Alston, William P. 1985d. “Divine Foreknowledge and Alternative Conceptions of Human Freedom.” International Journal for Philosophy of Religion 18(1): 19–32.
Alston, William P. 1986a. “Internalism and Externalism in Epistemology.” Philosophical Topics 14(1): 185–226. Reprinted in Alcoff (1998, 45–79).
Alston, William P. 1986b. “An Action-Plan Interpretation of Purposive Explanations of Actions.” Theory and Decision 20(3): 275–300. Reprinted, with the same page numbering, in Audi (1986).
Alston, William P. 1986c. “Quine on Meaning.” in The Philosophy of W.V. Quine, edited by Lewis Edwin Hahn and Paul Arthur Schilpp, pp. 49–72. The Library of Living Philosophers n. 18. LaSalle, Illinois: Open Court Publishing Co.
Alston, William P. 1987. “Matching Illocutionary Act Types.” in On Being and Saying: Essays for Richard Cartwright, edited by Judith Jarvis Thomson, pp. 151–165. Cambridge, Massachusetts: The MIT Press.
Alston, William P. 1988a. “The Perception of God.” Philosophical Topics 16(2): 23–52.
Alston, William P. 1988b. “The Deontological Conception of Epistemic Justification.” in Philosophical Perspectives 2: Epistemology, edited by James E. Tomberlin, pp. 257–299. Oxford: Blackwell Publishers.
Alston, William P. 1988c. “Referring to God.” International Journal for Philosophy of Religion 24(3): 113–128.
Alston, William P. 1988d. “The Indwelling of the Holy Spirit.” in Philosophy and the Christian Faith, edited by Thomas V. Morris, pp. 121–150. University of Notre Dame Studies in Religion n. 5. Notre Dame, Indiana: University of Notre Dame Press.
Alston, William P. 1988e. “An Internalist Externalism.” Synthese 74: 265–283.
Alston, William P. 1988f. “Divine and Human Action.” in Divine and Human Actions. Essays in the Metaphysics of Theism, edited by Thomas V. Morris, pp. 257–280. Ithaca, New York: Cornell University Press.
Alston, William P. 1989a. Divine Nature and Human Language. Ithaca, New York: Cornell University Press.
Alston, William P. 1989b. “Reid on Perception and Conception.” in The Philosophy of Thomas Reid, edited by Melvin Dalgarno and Eric C. Matthews, pp. 35–48. Philosophical Studies Series n. 42. Dordrecht: D. Reidel Publishing Co.
Alston, William P. 1991a. Perceiving God. The Epistemology of Religious Experience. Ithaca, New York: Cornell University Press.
Alston, William P. 1991b. “Searle on Illocutionary Acts.” in John Searle and His Critics, edited by Ernest LePore and Robert van Gulick, pp. 57–80. Philosophers and Their Critics. Oxford: Blackwell Publishers.
Alston, William P. 1991c. “The Inductive Argument from Evil and the Human Cognitive Condition.” in Philosophical Perspectives 5: Philosophy of Religion, edited by James E. Tomberlin, pp. 29–67. Atascadero, California: Ridgeview Publishing Co. Reprinted in Howard-Snyder (1996, 97–125).
Alston, William P. 1992a. “The Place of Experience in the Grounds of Religious Belief.” in Our Knowledge of God. Essays on Natural and Philosophical Theology, edited by Kelly James Clark, pp. 87–111. Studies in Philosophy and Religion n. 16. Dordrecht: Kluwer Academic Publishers.
Alston, William P. 1992b. “The Autonomy of Religious Experience.” International Journal for Philosophy of Religion 31(2): 67–87.
Alston, William P. 1992c. “Religious Experience and Religious Belief.” in Contemporary Perspectives on Religious Epistemology, edited by R. Douglas Geivett and Brendan Sweetman, pp. 295–303. New York: Oxford University Press.
Alston, William P. 1992d. “Knowledge of God.” in Faith, Reason, and Skepticism, edited by Marcus Hester, pp. 6–49. Philadelphia, Pennsylvania: Temple University Press.
Alston, William P. 1993a. The Reliability of Sense Perception. Ithaca, New York: Cornell University Press.
Alston, William P. 1993b. “Aquinas on Theological Predication: A Look Backward and a Look Forward.” in Reasoned Faith. Essays in Philosophical Theology in Honor of Norman Kretzmann, edited by Eleonore Stump, pp. 145–178. Ithaca, New York: Cornell University Press.
Alston, William P. 1994a. “Illocutionary Acts and Linguistic Meaning.” in Foundations of Speech Act Theory: Philosophical and Linguistic Perspectives, edited by Savas L. Tsohatzidis, pp. 29–49. London: Routledge & Kegan Paul.
Alston, William P. 1994b. “Swinburne on Faith and Belief.” in Reason and the Christian Religion: Essays in Honor of Richard Swinburne, edited by Alan G. Padgett, pp. 21–38. Oxford: Oxford University Press.
Alston, William P. 1995a. “How to Think about Reliability.” Philosophical Topics 23(1): 1–29, doi:10.5840/philtopics199523122.
Alston, William P. 1995b. “Realism and the Christian Faith.” International Journal for Philosophy of Religion 38(1): 37–60. Reprinted in Long (1995, 37–60).
Alston, William P. 1996a. A Realist Conception of Truth. Ithaca, New York: Cornell University Press.
Alston, William P. 1996b. “The Inductive Argument from Evil and the Human Cognitive Condition.” in The Evidential Argument from Evil, edited by Daniel Howard-Snyder, pp. 97–125. Bloomington, Indiana: Indiana University Press.
Alston, William P. 1996c. “Some (Temporarily) Final Thoughts on Evidential Arguments from Evil.” in The Evidential Argument from Evil, edited by Daniel Howard-Snyder, pp. 311–332. Bloomington, Indiana: Indiana University Press.
Alston, William P. 1996d. “Belief, Acceptance, and Religious Faith.” in Faith, Freedom and Rationality. Philosophy of Religion Today, edited by Jeffrey Jordan and Daniel Howard-Snyder. Lanham, Maryland: Rowman & Littlefield.
Alston, William P. 1997a. “Realism and the Tasks of Epistemology.” in Realism/Antirealism in Epistemology, edited by Christopher B. Kulp, pp. 53–94. Lanham, Maryland: Rowman & Littlefield.
Alston, William P. 1997b. “Chisholm on the Epistemology of Perception.” in The Philosophy of Roderick M. Chisholm, edited by Lewis Edwin Hahn, pp. 107–125. The Library of Living Philosophers n. 25. LaSalle, Illinois: Open Court Publishing Co.
Alston, William P. 1997c. “The Holy Spirit and the Trinity.” in Philosophy and Theological Discourse, edited by Stephen T. Davis, pp. 102–123. Claremont Studies in the Philosophy of Religion. London: MacMillan Publishing Co.
Alston, William P. 1997d. “Review of Swinburne (1994).” International Journal for Philosophy of Religion 41(1): 35–57.
Alston, William P. 1998. “God and Religious Experience.” in Philosophy of Religion. A Guide to the Subject, edited by Brian Davies, pp. 65–69. Washington, D.C.: Georgetown University Press.
Alston, William P. 1999a. “Back to the Theory of Appearing.” in Philosophical Perspectives 13: Epistemology, edited by James E. Tomberlin, pp. 181–203. Oxford: Blackwell Publishers.
Alston, William P. 1999b. “Perceptual Knowledge.” in The Blackwell Guide to Epistemology, edited by John Greco and Ernest Sosa, pp. 223–242. Blackwell Philosophy Guides. Oxford: Blackwell Publishers, doi:10.1002/9781405164863.
Alston, William P. 1999c. “Substance and the Trinity.” in The Trinity: An Interdisciplinary Symposium on the Trinity, edited by Stephen T. Davis, Daniel Kendall, and Gerald O’Collins, pp. 179–202. Oxford: Oxford University Press.
Alston, William P. 1999d. “The Distinctiveness of the Epistemology of Religious Belief.” in The Rationality of Theism, edited by Godehard Brüntrup and Ronald K. Tacelli, pp. 237–254. Studies in Philosophy and Religion n. 19. Dordrecht: Kluwer Academic Publishers.
Alston, William P. 2000a. Illocutionary Acts and Sentence Meaning. Ithaca, New York: Cornell University Press.
Alston, William P. 2000b. “Review of Zagzebski (1996).” Philosophy and Phenomenological Research 60(1): 185–189.
Alston, William P. 2001a. A Sensible Metaphysical Realism. Milwaukee, Wisconsin: Marquette University Press. The Aquinas Lecture, 2001.
Alston, William P. 2001b. “Doing Epistemology without Justification.” Philosophical Topics 29(1–2): 1–18.
Alston, William P., ed. 2002a. Realism and Antirealism. Ithaca, New York: Cornell University Press.
Alston, William P. 2002b. “Truth: Concept and Property.” in What is Truth?, edited by Richard Schantz, pp. 11–26. Current Issues in Theoretical Philosophy n. 1. Berlin: de Gruyter.
Alston, William P. 2002c. “Plantinga, Naturalism, and Defeat.” in Naturalism Defeated? Essays on Plantinga’s Evolutionary Argument against Naturalism, edited by James K. Beilby, pp. 176–203. Ithaca, New York: Cornell University Press.
Alston, William P. 2002d. “Sellars and the ‘Myth of the Given’ .” Philosophy and Phenomenological Research 65(1): 69–86.
Alston, William P. 2004a. “Religious Experience Justifies Religious Belief.” in Contemporary Debates in the Philosophy of Religion, edited by Michael L. Peterson and Raymond J. VanArragon, pp. 135–144. Contemporary Debates in Philosophy n. 1. Boston, Massachusetts: Blackwell Publishers.
Alston, William P. 2004b. “The ‘Challenge’ of Externalism.” in The Externalist Challenge, edited by Richard Schantz, pp. 37–52. Current Issues in Theoretical Philosophy n. 2. Berlin: de Gruyter, doi:10.1515/9783110915273.
Alston, William P. 2004c. “Sosa on Realism.” in Ernest Sosa and His Critics, edited by John Greco, pp. 201–214. Philosophers and Their Critics. Oxford: Blackwell Publishers, doi:10.1002/9780470756140.
Alston, William P. 2005a. Beyond “Justification”: Dimensions of Epistemic Evaluation. Ithaca, New York: Cornell University Press, doi:10.7591/9781501720574.
Alston, William P. 2005b. “Perception and Representation.” Philosophy and Phenomenological Research 70(2): 253–289.
Alston, William P. 2005c. “Religious Language.” in The Oxford Handbook of Philosophy of Religion, edited by William J. Wainwright, pp. 220–244. Oxford Handbooks. Oxford: Oxford University Press, doi:10.1093/0195138090.001.0001.
Alston, William P. 2005d. “Mysticism and Perceptual Awareness of God.” in The Blackwell Guide to the Philosophy of Religion, edited by William E. Mann, pp. 198–219. Blackwell Philosophy Guides. Oxford: Blackwell Publishers, doi:10.1002/9780470756638.
Alston, William P. 2005e. “Two Cheers for Mystery!” in God and the Ethics of Belief. New Essays in Philosophy of Religion, edited by Andrew Dole and Andrew Chignell, pp. 99–115. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
Alston, William P. 2006. “Epistemology and Metaphysics.” in Knowledge and Reality. Essays in Honor of Alvin Plantinga, edited by Thomas M. Crisp, Matthew Davidson, and David A. Vander Laan, pp. 81–110. Philosophical Studies Series n. 103. Dordrecht: Springer.
Alston, William P. 2007a. “Audi on Nondoxastic Faith.” in Rationality and the Good. Critical Essays on the Ethics and Epistemology of Robert Audi, edited by Mark Timmons, John Greco, and Alfred R. Mele, pp. 123–141. Oxford: Oxford University Press, doi:10.1093/acprof:oso/9780195311952.001.0001.
Alston, William P. 2007b. “Illocutionary Acts and Truth.” in Truth and Speech Acts: Studies in the Philosophy of Language, edited by Dirk Greimann and Geo Siegwart, pp. 9–30. Routledge Studies in Contemporary Philosophy n. 6. London: Routledge.
Alston, William P. 2012. “Reference and Meaning.” in Prospects for Meaning, edited by Richard Schantz, pp. 35–60. Current Issues in Theoretical Philosophy n. 3. Berlin: de Gruyter.
Alston, William P., Audi, Robert, Penelhum, Terence and Popkin, Richard Henry. 1992. “Concluding Reactions.” in Faith, Reason, and Skepticism, edited by Marcus Hester, pp. 155–174. Philadelphia, Pennsylvania: Temple University Press.
Alston, William P. and Bennett, Jonathan. 1984. “Identity and Cardinality: Geach and Frege.” The Philosophical Review 93(4): 553–567.
Alston, William P. and Bennett, Jonathan. 1988. “Locke on People and Substances.” The Philosophical Review 97(1): 25–46.
Alston, William P. and Smythe, Thomas W. 1994. “Swinburne’s Argument for Dualism.” Faith and Philosophy 11: 127–133.

Further References

Alcoff, Linda Martı́n. 1998. Epistemology: the Big Questions. Oxford: Blackwell Publishers.
Audi, Robert, ed. 1986. Action, Decision, and Intention: Studies in the Foundation of Action Theory as an Approach to Understanding Rationality and Decision. Dordrecht: D. Reidel Publishing Co. Reprinted from Theory and Decision, 20(3), 1986.
Benacerraf, Paul and Putnam, Hilary, eds. 1964. Philosophy of Mathematics: Selected Readings. Englewood Cliffs, New Jersey: Prentice-Hall, Inc. Second edition: Benacerraf and Putnam (1983).
Benacerraf, Paul and Putnam, Hilary, eds. 1983. Philosophy of Mathematics: Selected Readings. 2nd ed. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. First edition: Benacerraf and Putnam (1964), doi:10.1017/cbo9781139171519.
Doney, Willis, ed. 1967. Descartes: A Collection of Critical Essays. Garden City, New York: Doubleday & Co.
Howard-Snyder, Daniel, ed. 1996. The Evidential Argument from Evil. Bloomington, Indiana: Indiana University Press.
Kohlberg, Lawrence. 1971. “From Is to Ought: How to Commit the Naturalistic Fallacy and Get Away with It in the Study of Moral Development.” in Cognitive Development and Epistemology, edited by Theodore Mischel, pp. 151–235. New York: Academic Press.
Lehrer, Keith. 1967. “Comments [on Alston (1967b)].” in Intentionality, Minds, and Perception: Discussions on Contemporary Philosophy. A Symposium, edited by Hector-Neri Castañeda, pp. 342–350. Detroit, Maryland: Wayne State University Press. Proceedings from the Wayne State University Symposium in the Philosophy of Mind, December 1962.
Long, Eugene Thomas, ed. 1995. God, Reason and Religions. New Essays in the Philosophy of Religion. Studies in Philosophy and Religion n. 18. Dordrecht: Kluwer Academic Publishers.
MacIntyre, Alasdair C. 1964. “Is Understanding Religion Compatible with Believing?” in Faith and the Philosophers, edited by John H. Hick, pp. 115–133. New York: St. Martin’s Press.
Swinburne, Richard. 1994. The Christian God. Oxford: Oxford University Press, doi:10.1093/0198235127.001.0001.
Tuomela, Raimo. 1978. Dispositions. Synthese Library n. 113. Dordrecht: D. Reidel Publishing Co., doi:10.1007/978-94-017-1282-8.
Weitz, Morris. 1972. “The Concept of Human Action.” Philosophic Exchange 3: 201–237.
Zagzebski, Linda Trinkaus. 1996. Virtues of the Mind. An Inquiry into the Nature of Virtue and the Ethical Foundations of Knowledge. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, doi:10.1017/cbo9781139174763.