Editing William Alston (section)

== Career ==
From 1949 until 1971, Alston was a professor at the [[University of Michigan]], and he became professor of philosophy in 1961.<ref name="Marquette">{{cite web |title=The Aquinas Lecture in Philosophy i |url=http://www.marquette.edu/mupress/Alston.shtml |publisher=[[Marquette University Press]] |access-date=December 10, 2013}}</ref> He then taught at [[Rutgers University]] for five years, followed by the [[University of Illinois at Urbana–Champaign]] from 1976 to 1980 and then [[Syracuse University]] from 1980 to 1992.<ref name="Shook2005" /> Alston's early work was on the [[philosophy of language]], later going on to focus on [[epistemology]] and the [[philosophy of religion]] from the early 1970s onwards.<ref name=":0" />

Together with [[Alvin Plantinga]], [[Nicholas Wolterstorff]], [[Robert Merrihew Adams|Robert Adams]], and Michael L. Peterson, Alston helped to found the journal ''[[Faith and Philosophy]]''.<ref name="Plantinga2009">{{cite journal |last=Plantinga |first=Alvin |author-link=Alvin Plantinga |title=In Memoriam: William J. Alston |url=http://www.andrewmbailey.com/ap/In_Memoriam_Alston.pdf |journal=[[Faith and Philosophy]] |volume=26 |issue=4 |year=2009 |pages=359–360 |issn=0739-7046 |doi=10.5840/faithphil200926434}}</ref> With Plantinga, Wolterstorff, and others, Alston was also responsible for the development of "[[Reformed epistemology]]" (a term that Alston, an [[Episcopal Church (United States)|Episcopalian]], never fully endorsed), one of the most important contributions to Christian thought in the twentieth century.<ref name="Meeker">{{cite journal |last=Meeker |first=Kevin |title=William Alston's Epistemology of Religious Experience: A 'Reformed' Reformed Epistemology? |journal=International Journal for Philosophy of Religion |date=April 1994 |volume=35 |issue=2 |pages=89–110 |jstor=40036246 |doi=10.1007/bf01318327|s2cid=170253486 }}</ref> Alston was president of the Western Division (now the Central Division) of the [[American Philosophical Association]] in 1979, the [[Society for Philosophy and Psychology]], and the [[Society of Christian Philosophers]], which he co-founded. He was widely recognized as one of the core figures in the late twentieth-century revival of the [[philosophy of religion]].<ref name="Centenary">{{cite news |title=William P. Alston |url=http://www.centenary.edu/philosophy/Alston%20obit |access-date=December 10, 2013 |newspaper=[[Centenary College of Louisiana]] |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131213075747/http://www.centenary.edu/philosophy/Alston%20obit |archive-date=December 13, 2013}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.apaonline.org/page/presidents |title=APA Divisional Presidents and Addresses |publisher=American Philosophical Association |access-date=August 11, 2018}}</ref> He was elected a Fellow of the [[American Academy of Arts and Sciences]] in 1990.<ref name="AAAS">{{cite web |title=Book of Members, 1780–2010: Chapter A |url=http://www.amacad.org/publications/BookofMembers/ChapterA.pdf |publisher=[[American Academy of Arts and Sciences]] |page=11 |access-date=December 9, 2013}}</ref>