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D-Index
40
Citations
10399
World Ranking
5227
National Ranking
2466

Overview

William P. Alston was affiliated with Syracuse University in the United States. Their academic and research career contributed to the field of philosophy, focusing on issues related to epistemology and the philosophy of religion.

Throughout their career, they did not have recent papers listed in the dataset. Information on specific research topics, co-authors, and publication venues collected does not show entries for this individual based on the data provided.

Similarly, no details regarding specific fields, subfields, or main topics of study were recorded in the source information for William P. Alston.

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William P. Alston is deceased. The profile reflects a neutral overview of the academic presence of the individual according to the available records.

Best Publications

  • Philosophy of Language

    William P. Alston

  • Beyond "Justification": Dimensions of Epistemic Evaluation

    William P. Alston

  • A realist conception of truth

    William P. Alston

  • The deontological conception of epistemic justification

    William P. Alston

  • Perceiving God: The Epistemology of Religious Experience

    William P. Alston

  • Internalism and Externalism in Epistemology

    William P. Alston

  • Concepts of Epistemic Justification

    William P. Alston

  • Knowledge and the Flow of Information

    J. Christopher Maloney;Fred I. Dretske

  • An internalist externalism

    William P. Alston

  • Illocutionary acts and sentence meaning

    William P. Alston

  • The Reliability of Sense Perception

    William P. Alston

  • The Inductive Argument From Evil and the Human Cognitive Condition

    William P. Alston

  • How to Think about Reliability

    William P. Alston

  • Two Types of Foundationalism

    William P. Alston

  • Level-Confusions in Epistemology

    William P. Alston

  • Traits, consistency and conceptual alternatives for personality theory.

    William P. Alston

  • What's wrong with immediate knowledge?

    William P. Alston

  • Virtue and Knowledge

    William P. Alston

  • Does God have Beliefs

    William P. Alston

  • Locke on people and substances

    William P. Alston;Jonathan Bennett

  • Divine nature and human language

    William Alston

  • The Reliability of Sense Perception.

    A. E. Pitson;William Alston

  • Epistemic Justification: Essays in the Theory of Knowledge.Divine Nature and Human Language: Essays in Philosophical Theology

    James E. Taylor;William P. Alston

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