William Payne Alston was an American philosopher.
11 Facts About William Alston
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William Alston is widely considered to be one of the most important epistemologists and philosophers of religion of the twentieth century, and is known for his work in metaphysics and the philosophy of language.
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William Alston 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 graduated from high school when he was 15 and went on to Centenary College of Louisiana, graduating in 1942 with a Bachelor of Music in piano.
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William Alston's dissertation was on the subject of the philosophy of Alfred North Whitehead.
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From 1949 until 1971, William Alston was a professor at the University of Michigan, and he became professor of philosophy in 1961.
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Together with Alvin Plantinga, Nicholas Wolterstorff, Robert Adams, and Michael L Peterson, Alston helped to found the journal Faith and Philosophy.
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William Alston was president of the Western Division of the American Philosophical Association in 1979, the Society for Philosophy and Psychology, and the Society of Christian Philosophers, which he co-founded.
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William Alston was widely recognized as one of the core figures in the late twentieth-century revival of the philosophy of religion.
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William Alston was elected a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 1990.
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William Alston died in a nursing home in Jamesville, New York, on September 13,2009, at the age of 87.