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William P. Alston (born 1921) is professor emeritus at Syracuse University, and has been influential as an epistemologist. He earned his PhD from the University of Chicago and taught for many years at the University of Michigan. His views on foundationalism and internalism versus externalism, among many other topics, have been very influential. Alston has also done important work in philosophy of language, philosophy of religion, metaphysics, history of philosophy and other fields. Alston is counted among the analytic philosophers. Syracuse University (SU) is a private research university located in Syracuse, New York. ...
Epistemology or theory of knowledge is the branch of philosophy that studies the nature and scope of knowledge. ...
The University of Chicago is a private university located principally in the Hyde Park neighborhood of Chicago. ...
UM also has campuses in Dearborn and Flint. ...
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Philosophy of language is the branch of philosophy that studies language. ...
Philosophy of religion is the rational study of the meaning and justification of fundamental religious claims, particularly about the nature and existence of God (or gods, or the divine). ...
Plato and Aristotle, by Raphael (Stanza della Segnatura, Rome). ...
The history of philosophy tracks the multitudinous theories which aim at some kind of understanding, knowledge or wisdom on fundamental matters as diverse as reality, knowledge, meaning, value, being and truth. ...
Analytic philosophy is the dominant philosophical movement in University philosophy departments in English-speaking countries and in Scandinavia, although one of its founders, Gottlob Frege, was German, and many of its leading proponents, such as Ludwig Wittgenstein, Rudolf Carnap, Kurt Gödel, Karl Popper, Hans Reichenbach, Herbert Feigl, Otto Neurath...
Together with other philosophers (Alvin Plantinga, Nicholas Wolterstorff, Richard Mouw) Alston was involved in setting up the philosophy journal Faith and philosophy and the Society of Christian Philosophers. Alston is a past president of the American Philosophical Association and was one of the core figures in the late 20th century revival of the philosophy of religion. Alvin Cornelius Plantinga (born 15 November 1932 in Ann Arbor, Michigan, of Frisian ancestry) is a contemporary American philosopher known for his work in epistemology, metaphysics, and the philosophy of religion. ...
The philosopher Nicholas Paul Wolterstorff was born January 21, 1932 in Bigelow, Minnesota. ...
Richard J. Mouw is currently President at Fuller Theological Seminary. ...
The American Philosophical Association is the main professional organization for philosophers in the United States. ...
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Further reading - Alston, William P., Beyond "Justification": Dimensions Of Epistemic Evaluation,Ithaca, N.Y.: Cornell University Press, 2005
- Alston, William P., Illocutionary Acts and Sentence Meaning, Ithaca, N.Y.: Cornell University Press, 2000
- Alston, William P., A Realist Conception of Truth, Ithaca, N.Y.: Cornell University Press, 1996
- Alston, William P., Epistemic Justification: Essays in the Theory of Knowledge, Ithaca, N.Y.: Cornell University Press, 1996
- Alston, William P., The Reliability of Sense Perception, Ithaca, N.Y.: Cornell University Press, 1993
- Alston, William P., Perceiving God: The Epistemology of Religious Experience, Ithaca, N.Y.: Cornell University Press, 1991
- Alston, William P., Philosophy of Language, Englewood Cliffs, Prentice Hall, 1964
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