WILLIAM P

WILLIAM P. ALSTON

BIBLIOGRAPHY
Current as of October 2006

BOOKS

Divine Mystery and Our Knowledge of God, a series of three lectures comprising the Taylor Lectures, Yale Divinity School, 2005. Alston hopes to convert these lectures into a book soon. Here's a description of the lectures from the Yale Divinity School website: Alston's Taylor lectures topic was Divine Mystery and Our Knowledge of God. Due to limitations on Alston's travel necessitated by health concerns, the lectures were given by Nicholas Wolterstorff, the Noah Porter Professor Emeritus of Philosophical theology at Yale Divinity School. Delivered in the form of what Alston termed “an Hegelian dialectical triad of thesis, antithesis, and synthesis,” he analyzed the writings of Thomas Merton, Thomas Keating, Paul Tillich and John Hick to probe whether human concepts can or cannot truly apply to God. What emerged was an Alston synthesis that allows for the ability of human concepts to achieve “a close approximation to truth” when applied to God — an ability that Alston called “crucial” to the Christian life.

Beyond "Justification": Dimensions of Epistemic Evaluation (Ithaca, NY: Cornell, 2004)

Realism and Antirealism (Ithaca, NY: Cornell, 2002), editor

A Sensible Metaphysical Realism: The 2001 Aquinas Lecture (Milwaukee, WI: Marquette, 2001)

Illocutionary Acts and Sentence Meaning (Ithaca, NY: Cornell, 2000)

A Realist Conception of Truth (Ithaca, NY: Cornell, 1996)

The Reliability of Sense Perception (Ithaca, NY: Cornell, 1993)

Perceiving God: The Epistemology of Religious Experience (Ithaca, NY: Cornell, 1991) Note: Alston is presently working on a second edition.

Divine Nature and Human Language: Essays in Philosophical Theology (Ithaca, NY: Cornell, 1989)

Epistemic Justification: Essays in the Theory of Knowledge (Ithaca, NY: Cornell, 1989)

The Problems of Philosophy: Introductory Readings (Boston: Allyn and Bacon, 1967; 2^nd edition 1974; 3^rd edition, 1978), co-edited with R.B. Brandt

Philosophy of Language (Englewood Cliffs, NJ: Prentice-Hall, 1964)

Religious Belief and Philosophical Thought: Readings in the Philosophy of Religion ( New York: Harcourt, Brace, and World, 1963), editor

Readings in Twentieth Century Philosophy (New York: Free Press, 1963), co-edited with G. Nakhnikian

Note: Several of the items below are included in Alston's two collections of published articles, Divine Nature and Human Language and Epistemic Justification. To facilitate access to these items, I have indicated below which ones are in these collections.

ARTICLES

"Perception and Representation", Philosophy and Phenomenological Research (2005)

"Does Religious Experience Justify Religious Belief?", debate with E. Fales in Contemporary Debates in Philosophy of Religion, eds. M. Peterson and R. Vanarrogon (Oxford: Blackwell, 2004), 135-63.

"Religious Language and Verificationism", in The Rationality of Theism, eds. P. Copan and P.K. Moser (London and New York: Routledge, 2003), 17-34.

"Historical Criticism of the Synoptic Gospels", in "Behind" the Text: History and Biblical Interpretation, eds. C. Bartholomew, C.S. Evans, M. Healy, and M. Rae (Grand Rapids, MI: Zondervan, 2003), 151-80.

"Doing Epistemology without Justification", Philosophical Topics 29 (2003), 1-18.

"Truth: Concept and Property", in What is Truth?, ed. R. Shantz (Berlin and New York: Walter de Gruyter, 2002), 11-26.

"What Metaphysical Realism Is Not", in Realism and Antirealism, ed. W.P. Alston (Ithaca, NY: Cornell, 2002), 97-115

"Plantinga, Naturalism, and Defeat", in Naturalism Defeated?: Essays on Plantinga's
Evolutionary Argument Against Naturalism, ed. J. Beilby (Ithaca, NY: Cornell 2002), 176-203

"Sellars and the 'Myth of the Given'", Philosophy and Phenomenological Research 65 (2002), 69-86
Version presented at the Eastern Division APA Meeting, Washington DC, December 1998

"Truth: Concept and Property", in What Is Truth?, ed. R. Schantz (Berlin and New York: de Gruyter, 2002), 11-26

"Doing Epistemology Without Justification", Philosophical Topics 28 (2001), 1-18

"Religious Beliefs and Values", Faith and Philosophy 18 (2001), 36-49

"Literal Talk of God: Its Possibility and Function", in This is My Name Forever, ed. A.F. Kimel, Jr. (Downer's Grove, IL: InterVarsity, 2001), 136-60

"A Realist Conception of Truth", in The Nature of Truth: Classical and Contemporary Perspectives, ed. M. Lynch (Cambridge, MA: MIT, 2001), 41-66

"Realism and Antirealism", in The Oxford Companion to Christian Thought, eds. A. Hastings, A. Mason & H. Pyper (Oxford: Oxford, 2000), 593-96

"Virtue and Knowledge", Philosophy and Phenomenological Research 60 (2000), 185-89

"Substance and the Trinity", in The Trinity, eds. S.T. Davis, D. Kendall, SJ & G. O'Collins, SJ (Oxford: Oxford, 1999)

"The Distinctiveness of the Epistemology of Religious Belief", in The Rationality of Theism, eds. G. Brüntrup & R.K. Tacelli (Dordrecht: Kluwer, 1999)

"What is Distinctive About the Epistemology of Religious Belief?", Proceedings of the Twentieth World Congress of Philosophy, ed. K.L. Stoehr (Bowling Green, OH: Philosophy Documentation Center, 1999)

"Back to the Theory of Appearing", Philosophical Perspectives 13 (1999), 81-103

"Perceptual Knowledge", in The Blackwell Guide to Epistemology, eds. J. Greco & E. Sosa (Malden, MA: Blackwell 1999), 223-42

"Some Reminiscences of the Early Days of the Society of Christian Philosophers", Faith and Philosophy 15 (1998), 141-43

Articles in the Routledge Encyclopedia of Philosophy, ed. E. Craig (London: Routledge, 1998)

"Empiricism", 3:298-303

"Internalism and Externalism in Epistemology", 4:821-26

"Philosophy of Religion, History of", 8:238-48

"Religious Language", 8:255-60

"Religious Experience", 8:250-55

"God and Religious Experience", in Philosophy of Religion: A Guide to the Subject, ed. B. Davies (London: Cassell, 1998), 65-69
Reprinted in:

Philosophy of Religion: A Guide and Anthology, ed. B. Davies (Oxford: Oxford, 2000)

"Perception and Conception", in Pragmatism, Reason, & Norms, ed. K.R. Westphal (New York: Fordham, 1998)

"Swinburne and Christian Theology", International Journal for Philosophy of Religion 41 (1997), 35-57

"Realism and the Tasks of Epistemology", in Realism/Antirealism and Epistemology, ed. C.B. Kulp (Lanham, MD: Rowman & Littlefield, 1997)

"Chisholm on the Epistemology of Perception", in The Philosophy of Roderick M. Chisholm, ed. L.E. Hahn (Chicago: Open Court, 1997)

"Biblical Criticism and the Resurrection", in The Resurrection, eds. S.T. Davis, D. Kendall & G. O'Collins (Oxford: Oxford, 1997)

"The Holy Spirit and the Trinity", in Philosophy and Theological Discourse, ed. S.T. Davis (London: Macmillan, 1997)

"Belief, Acceptance, and Religious Faith", in Faith, Freedom, and Rationality, eds. J. Jordan & D. Howard-Snyder (Lanham, MD: Rowman & Littlefield, 1996), 10-27

"Religious Experience as Perception of God", in Philosophy of Religion: Selected Readings, ed M. Peterson et al (New York: Oxford, 1996).
Reprinted in:

Ten Essential Texts in the Philosophy of Religion, ed. S. Cahn (New York: Oxford, 2004)

"Some (Temporarily) Final Thoughts on Evidential Arguments from Evil", in The Evidential Argument from Evil, ed. D. Howard-Snyder (Bloomington, IN: Indiana, 1996), 311-32

"How to think About Reliability", Philosophical Topics 23 (1995), 10-29
Reprinted in:

Epistemology: An Anthology, ed. E. Sosa and J. Kim (Oxford: Blackwell, 2000)

"Realism and the Christian Faith", International Journal for Philosophy of Religion 38 (1995), 37-60

Reprinted in:

God, Reason and Religions, ed. E.T. Long (Dordrecht: Kluwer, 1995)

"Theism as Theory and the Problem of Evil", Topoi 14 (1995), 135-48

"Epistemic Warrant and Proper Function", Philosophy and Phenomenological Research 55 (1995), 397-402

"Taking the Curse Off Language Games: A Realist Account of Doxastic Practices", in Philosophy and the Grammar of Religious Belief, eds. T. Tessin & M. von der Ruhr (New York: St. Martin's, 1995), 16-47

"Truth and Sentence Meaning", in Man, Meaning, and Morality, ed. R.S. Mishra (Indian Council of Philosophical Research, 1995), 91-110

"Reply to Critics", in a Symposium on Perceiving God in Journal of Philosophical Research 20 (1995), 67-81

"Divine Action: Shadow or Substance", in The God Who Acts: Philosophical and Theological Explorations, ed. T.F. Tracy (University Park, PA: Pennsylvania State, 1994), 41-62

"Illocutionary Acts and Linguistic Meaning", in Foundations of Speech Act Theory: Philosophical and Linguistic Perspectives, ed. S.L. Tsohatzidis (London: Routledge, 1994), 29-49

"Précis of Perceiving God" & "Reply to Commentators", in a Book Symposium on Perceiving God, in Philosophy and Phenomenological Research 54 (1994), 863-68 & 891-99

"Swinburne on Faith and Belief", in Reason and the Christian Religion: Essays in Honor of Richard Swinburne, ed. A.G. Padgett (Oxford: Clarendon, 1994), 21-37

"Response to Critics" (concerning Perceiving God), Religious Studies 30 (1994), 171-80

"Belief Forming Practices and the Social", in Socializing Epistemology: The Social Dimensions of Knowledge, ed. F.F. Schmitt (Lanham, MD: Rowman & Littlefield, 1994), 29-51

"A Philosopher's Way Back to the Faith", in God and the Philosophers: The Reconciliation of Faith and Reason, ed. T.V. Morris (New York: Oxford, 1994), 19-30

"Swinburne's Argument for Dualism", Faith and Philosophy 11 (1994), 127-33, with T.W. Smythe

"On Knowing That We Know: The Application to Religious Knowledge", in Christian Perspectives on Religious Knowledge, eds. C.S. Evans & M. Westphal (Grand Rapids, MI: Eerdmans, 1993), 15-39

"Aquinas on Theological Predication: A Look Backward and a Look Forward", in Reasoned Faith: Essays in Philosophical Theology in Honor of Norman Kretzmann, ed. E. Stump (Ithaca, NY: Cornell, 1993), 145-78

"John Hick: Faith and Knowledge", in God, Truth, and Reality: Essays in Honour of John Hick, ed. A. Sharma (New York: St. Martin's, 1993), 24-30

"Divine Action, Human Freedom, and the Laws of Nature", in Quantum Cosmology and the Laws of Nature: Scientific Perspectives on Divine Action, eds. R.J. Russell, N. Murphy, & C.J. Isham (Vatican City State: Vatican Observatory Publications, 1993), 185-207

"Epistemic Desiderata", Philosophy and Phenomenological Research 53 (1993), 527-51

"Reply to Pasnau", Philosophical Studies 72 (1993), 35-43

"Literal and Non-Literal in Reports of Mystical Experience", in Mysticism and Language, ed. S.T. Katz (New York: Oxford, 1992), 80-102

"The Place of Experience in the Grounds of Religious Belief", in Our Knowledge of God, ed. K.J. Clark (Norwell, MA: Kluwer, 1992)

Articles in A Companion to Epistemology, eds. J. Dancy & E. Sosa (Oxford: Basil Blackwell, 1992):

"Foundationalism", 144-47

"Incorrigibility", 195

"Indubitability", 200

"Infallibility", 206

"Principle of Credulity", 366-67

"The Autonomy of Religious Experience", International Journal for Philosophy of Religion 31 (1992), 67-87

"Knowledge of God", in Faith, Reason, and Skepticism, ed. M. Hester (Philadelphia: Temple, 1992), 6-49

"The Fulfillment of Promises as Evidence for Religious Belief", Logos 12 (1991), 1-26

Reprinted in:

The Existence of God, in the International Research Library of Philosophy, eds. R. Gale and A.R. Pruss (Burlington, VT: Ashgate, 2003)

Faith in Theory and Practice, eds. E.S. Radcliffe & C.J. White (Chicago: Open Court, 1993), 1-34

"The Inductive Argument from Evil and the Human Cognitive Condition", Philosophical Perspectives 5 (1991), 29-67 Reprinted in:

The Existence of God, in the International Research Library of Philosophy, eds. R. Gale and A.R. Pruss (Burlington, VT: Ashgate, 2003)
The Evidential Argument from Evil, ed. D. Howard-Snyder (Bloomington, IN: Indiana, 1996), 97-125

"Higher Level Requirements for Epistemic Justification", in The Opened Curtain, eds. K. Lehrer & E. Sosa (Boulder, CO: Westview, 1991)

"Reid on Perception and Conception", in The Philosophy of Thomas Reid, eds. M. Dalgarno & E. Matthews (Dordrecht: Kluwer, 1990), 35-47

"Some Suggestions for Divine Command Theorists", in Christian Theism and the Problems of Philosophy, ed. M.D. Beaty (South Bend, IN: Notre Dame, 1990), 303-26

Reprinted in:

W.P. Alston, Divine Nature and Human Language: Essays in Philosophical Theology (Ithaca, NY: Cornell, 1989)

"How to Think About Divine Action", in Divine Action, eds. B. Hebblethwaite & E. Henderson (Edinburgh: T & T Clark, 1990), 51-70

"Searle on Illocutionary Acts", in John Searle and His Critics, eds. E. Lepore & R. Van Gulick (Oxford: Basil Blackwell, 1990), 57-80

"Externalist Theories of Perception", Philosophy and Phenomenological Research 50, Supplement (1990), 73-97

"Foley's Theory of Epistemic Rationality", Philosophy and Phenomenological Research 50 (1989), 135-47

"Reply to Daniels", Philosophy and Phenomenological Research 49 (1989), 501-06

"Goldman on Epistemic Justification", Philosophia 19 (1989), 115-31

"The Deontological Conception of Epistemic Justification", Philosophical Perspectives 2 (1988), 257-99

Reprinted in:

W.P. Alston, Epistemic Justification: Essays in the Theory of Knowledge (Ithaca, NY: Cornell, 1989)

"A 'Doxastic Practice' Approach to Epistemology", in Knowledge and Skepticism, eds. M. Clay & K. Lehrer (Boulder, CO: Westview, 1988)

"Divine and Human Action", in Divine and Human Action, ed. T. V. Morris (Ithaca: Cornell, 1988), 257-80

Reprinted in:

W.P. Alston, Divine Nature and Human Language: Essays in Philosophical Theology (Ithaca, NY: Cornell, 1989)

"The Indwelling of the Holy Spirit", in Philosophy and the Christian Faith, ed. T. V. Morris (South Bend, IN: Notre Dame, 1988), 121-50

Reprinted in:

W.P. Alston, Divine Nature and Human Language: Essays in Philosophical Theology (Ithaca, NY: Cornell, 1989)

"The Perception of God", Philosophical Topics 16 (1988)

Reprinted in:

The Existence of God, in the International Research Library of Philosophy, eds. R. Gale and A.R. Pruss (Burlington, VT: Ashgate, 2003)

"Referring to God", International Journal for Philosophy of Religion 24 (1988), 113-28

Reprinted in:

W.P. Alston, Divine Nature and Human Language: Essays in Philosophical Theology (Ithaca, NY: Cornell, 1989)

"Religious Diversity and the Perceptual Knowledge of God", Faith and Philosophy 5 (1988), 433-48

"Justification and Knowledge", Proceedings of the XVIIth World Congress of Philosophy (Montreal: Editions Montmorency, 1988)

Reprinted in:

W.P. Alston, Epistemic Justification: Essays in the Theory of Knowledge (Ithaca, NY: Cornell, 1989)

"An Internalist Externalism", Synthese 74 (1988), 265-83

Reprinted in:

W.P. Alston, Epistemic Justification: Essays in the Theory of Knowledge (Ithaca, NY: Cornell, 1989)
Knowledge: Readings in Contemporary Epistemology, eds. S. Bernecker and F. Dretske (New York: Oxford, 2000)
Epistemology: The Big Questions, ed. L. Alcoff (Oxford: Blackwell, 1998)

"Locke on People and Substances", with J. Bennett, Philosophical Review 97 (1988), 25-46

"Does God Have Beliefs?", Religious Studies 22 (1987), 287-306

Reprinted in:

W.P. Alston, Divine Nature and Human Language: Essays in Philosophical Theology (Ithaca, NY: Cornell, 1989)

"Matching Illocutionary Act Types", in On Being and Saying, ed. J. J. Thomson (Cambridge, MA: MIT, 1987), 151-63

"Perceiving God", Journal of Philosophy 83 (1986), 655-65

Reprinted in:

God Matters: Readings in the Philosophy of Religion, eds. R. Martin and C. Bernard (New York: Longman, 2003)
Readings in the Philosophy of Religion, ed. K. Clark (Toronto: Broadview, 2000)
Philosophy of Religion: The Big Questions, eds E. Stump and M. Murray (Oxford: Blackwell, 1999)
Philosophy of Religion: Toward a Global Perspective, ed. G.E. Kessler (Belmont, CA: Wadsworth, 1999)
Readings in the Philosophy of Religion: An Analytic Approach, 2nd edition, ed. B.A. Brody (Englewood Cliffs, NJ: Prentice-Hall, 1992)

"Is Religious Belief Rational?", in The Life of Religion, eds. S.M. Harrison & R.C. Taylor (Lanham, MD: University Press of America, 1986), 1-15

"Epistemic Circularity", Philosophy and Phenomenological Research 47 (1986), 1-30

Reprinted in:

W.P. Alston, Epistemic Justification: Essays in the Theory of Knowledge (Ithaca, NY: Cornell, 1989)

"An Action-Plan Interpretation of Purposive Explanations of Actions", Theory and Decision 20 (1986), 275-99

"Internalism and Externalism in Epistemology", Philosophical Topics 14 (1986), 179-221

Reprinted in:

W.P. Alston, Epistemic Justification: Essays in the Theory of Knowledge (Ithaca, NY: Cornell, 1989)

Epistemology: The Big Questions, ed. L. Alcoff (Oxford: Blackwell, 1998)

"The Hypothetical-Deductive Model in Personality Psychology", Annals of Theoretical Psychology 4 (1986), 199-206

"Religious Experience as a Ground of Religious Belief", in Religious Experience and Religious Belief, eds. J. Runzo & C.K. Ihara (University Press of America, 1986), 31-51

"Quine on Meaning", in The Philosophy of W. V. O. Quine, ed. L.E. Hahn (Open Court, 1986), 49-72

"God's Action in the World", in Evolution and Creation, ed. E. McMullin (South Bend, IN: Notre Dame, 1985), 197-220

Reprinted in:

W.P. Alston, Divine Nature and Human Language: Essays in Philosophical Theology (Ithaca, NY: Cornell, 1989)

"Thomas Reid on Epistemic Principles", History of Philosophical Quarterly 2 (1985), 435-52

"Functionalism and Theological Language", American Philosophical Quarterly 22 (1985), 221-30

Reprinted in:

W.P. Alston, Divine Nature and Human Language: Essays in Philosophical Theology (Ithaca, NY: Cornell, 1989)
Self, Cosmos, God, eds. D. Kolak and R. Martin (New York: Rinehart and Winston, 1992)

"Divine-Human Dialogue and the Nature of God", Faith and Philosophy 2 (1985), 5-20

Reprinted in:

W.P. Alston, Divine Nature and Human Language: Essays in Philosophical Theology (Ithaca, NY: Cornell, 1989)

"Concepts of Epistemic Justification", The Monist 68 (1985), 57-89

Reprinted in:

W.P. Alston, Epistemic Justification: Essays in the Theory of Knowledge (Ithaca, NY: Cornell, 1989)
Empirical Knowledge: Readings in Contemporary Epistemology, ed. P.K. Moser (Totawa, NJ: Rowman & Littlefield, 1986)

"Divine Foreknowledge and Alternative Conceptions of Human Freedom", International Journal for Philosophy of Religion 18 (1985), 18-32
Reprinted in:

Self, Cosmos, God, eds. D. Kolak and R. Martin (New York: Rinehart and Winston, 1992)
God, Foreknowledge, and Freedom, ed. J.M. Fischer (Stanford, CA: Stanford, 1989)
W.P. Alston, Divine Nature and Human Language: Essays in Philosophical Theology (Ithaca, NY: Cornell, 1989)

"Why I am a Christian", Truth 1 (1985), 97-98

"Plantinga's Religious Epistemology", in Alvin Plantinga, eds. J.E. Tomberlin and P. van Inwagen (Dordrecht: Reidel, 1985), 287-309

"Identity and Cardinality: Geach and Frege", Philosophical Review 93 (1984), 553-67, with J. Bennett

"Hartshorne and Aquinas: A Via Media", in Existence and Actuality, eds. J.B. Cobb, Jr. & F.I. Gamwell (Chicago: University of Chicago, 1984), 78-98

Reprinted in:

W.P. Alston, Divine Nature and Human Language: Essays in Philosophical Theology (Ithaca, NY: Cornell, 1989)

"Being-Itself and Talk About God", Center Journal 3 (1984), 9-25

"Psychology and Philosophy", Psychology and Its Allied Disciplines, ed. M.H. Bornstein (Hillsdale, NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum Associates, 1984), 195-239, with N. Block

"Christian Experience and Christian Belief", in Faith and Rationality, ed. A. Plantinga & N. Wolterstorff (South Bend, IN: Notre Dame, 1983), 103-34

"Conceptual Analysis and Psychological Theory", in A Century of Psychology as Science, ed. S. Koch (New York: McGraw-Hill, 1983)

"Comments on Fred I. Dretske, Knowledge and the Flow of Information", Brain and Behavior Sciences 6 (1983), 63-64

"What's Wrong With Immediate Knowledge?", Synthese 55 (1983), 73-95

Reprinted in:

W.P. Alston, Epistemic Justification: Essays in the Theory of Knowledge (Ithaca, NY: Cornell, 1989)

"The Role of Reason in the Regulation of Belief", in Rationality in the Calvinian Tradition, ed. H. Hart, J. Van Der Hoeven & N. Wolterstorff (Lanham, MD: University Press of America, 1983), 135-70

"Religious Experience and Religious Belief", Nous 16 (1982), 3-12

Reprinted in:

Einfuhrung in Die Analytische Religionsphilosophie, ed. C. Jager (Schoningh Verlag, 1996)
Philosophy of Religion: An Anthology of Contemporary Views, ed. M.Y. Stewart (Sudbury, MA: Jones and Bartlett, 1996)
Philosophy of Religion: An Anthology, ed. L. Pojman (Belmont, CA: Wadsworth, 1987)

"Can We Speak Literally of God?", in Is God GOD, ed. A. Steuer & J. McClendon (Nashville, TN: Abingdon, 1981), 146-77 Reprinted in:

W.P. Alston, Divine Nature and Human Language: Essays in Philosophical Theology (Ithaca, NY: Cornell, 1989)

"The Christian Language-Game", in The Autonomy of Religious Belief, ed. F.J. Crosson (South Bend, IN: Notre Dame, 1981), 128-62

"Level Confusions in Epistemology", Midwest Studies in Philosophy 5 (1980), 135-50

Reprinted in:

W.P. Alston, Epistemic Justification: Essays in the Theory of Knowledge (Ithaca, NY: Cornell, 1989)

"Irreducible Metaphors in Theology", in Experience, Reason, and God, ed. E.T. Long (Washington, DC: Catholic University, 1980), 129-48

Reprinted in:

W.P. Alston, Divine Nature and Human Language: Essays in Philosophical Theology (Ithaca, NY: Cornell, 1989)

"The Bridge Between Semantics and Pragmatics", in The Signifying Animal, ed. I. Rauch & G. Carr (Bloomington, IN: Indiana, 1980), 123-34

"Some Remarks on Chisholm's Epistemology", Nous 14 (1980), 565-86

"Yes, Virginia, There is a Real World", in Proceedings and Addresses of the American Philosophical Association 52 (1979), 779-808

Reprinted in:

Metaphysics: An Anthology, eds. J. Kim and E. Sosa (Oxford: Blackwell, 1999)
Reality in Focus: Contemporary Readings in Metaphysics, ed. P.K. Moser (Englewood Cliffs, NJ: Prentice-Hall, 1989)

"Meta-Ethics and Meta-Epistemology", in Values and Morals, eds. A.I. Goldman & J. Kim (Dordrecht, Holland: D. Reidel, 1978), 275-97

"Self-Intervention and the Structure of Motivation", in The Self: Psychological and Philosophical Issues, ed. T. Mischel (Oxford: Basil Blackwell, 1977), 65-102

"Sentence Meaning and Illocutionary Act Potential", Philosophical Exchange 2 (1977), 17-35

"Has Foundationalism Been Refuted?", Philosophical Studies 29 (1976), 287-305

Reprinted in:

W.P. Alston, Epistemic Justification: Essays in the Theory of Knowledge (Ithaca, NY: Cornell, 1989)
The Epistemology Reader, ed. M. Huemer (New York: Routledge, 2001)
Contemporary Readings in Epistemology, eds. M.F. Goodman and R.A. Snyder (Englewood Cliffs, NJ: Prentice-Hall, 1993)

"Two Types of Foundationalism", Journal of Philosophy LXXIII (1976), 165-185

Reprinted in:

Philosophical Entrees, ed. D. Jacquette (Lake Ann, MI: McGraw-Hill, 2000)
Readings in Epistemology, ed. J.S. Crumley II (Toronto: McGraw-Hill, 1999)
The Theory of Knowledge, ed. L.P. Pojman (Belmont, CA: Wadsworth, 1992)
W.P. Alston, Epistemic Justification: Essays in the Theory of Knowledge (Ithaca, NY: Cornell, 1989)
Analytische Philosophie der Erkenntnis, ed. P. Bieri (Frankfurt: Athenaum Verlag GMBH, 1987)
Empirical Knowledge: Readings in Contemporary Epistemology, ed. Paul K. Moser (Totawa, NJ: Rowman & Littlefield, 1986)

"Self-Warrant: A Neglected Form of Privileged Access", American Philosophical Quarterly 13 (1976), 257-73

Reprinted in:

W.P. Alston, Epistemic Justification: Essays in the Theory of Knowledge (Ithaca, NY: Cornell, 1989)

"Traits, Consistency And Conceptual Alternatives for Personality Theory", Journal for the Theory of Social Behavior 5 (1975), 17-48

Reprinted in:

Personality, ed. R. Harre (Oxford: Blackwell, 1977)

"Conceptual Prolegomena to a Psychological Theory of Intentional Action", in Philosophy of Psychology, ed. S.C. Brown (London: MacMillan, 1974), 71-101

"Semantic Rules", in Semantics and Philosophy, eds. M.K. Munitz & P.K. Unger (New York: New York University, 1974), 17-48

"Can Psychology Do Without Private Data?", Behaviorism 1 (1972), 71-102

Reprinted in:

Images, Perception, and Knowledge, ed. J.J. Nicholas (Dordrecht: Reidel, 1977)

"Response to Weitz", Philosophic Exchange 1 (1972), 239-47

"Dispositions and Occurences", Canadian Journal of Philosophy 1 (1971), 125-154 Reprinted in:

What is Mysticism?, ed. H. Guerry (Westport, CT: Greenwood Press, 1986)
Dispositions, ed. R. Toumela (Dordrecht: Reidel)

"How Does One Tell Whether a Word Has One, Several, or Many Senses?", in Semantics: An Interdisciplinary Reader in Philosophy, Linguistics, and Psychology, eds. D.D. Steinberg & L.A. Jakobovits (Cambridge: Cambridge, 1971), 35-57

"Comments on Kohlberg's 'From Is to Ought'", in Cognitive Development and Epistemology, ed. T. Mischel (New York: Academic, 1971), 269-84

Reprinted in:

Theories of Moral Development, ed. S. Nago (Japanese translation) (Tokyo: Shinyosha)

"The Place of the Explanation of Particular Facts in Science", Philosophy of Science 38 (1971), 13-34

"Varieties of Privileged Access", American Philosophical Quarterly 8 (1971), 223-41

Reprinted in:

Empirical Knowledge: Readings from Contemporary Sources, eds. R.M. Chisholm & R.J. Swartz (Englewood Cliffs, NJ: Prentice-Hall, 1973)

W.P. Alston, Epistemic Justification: Essays in the Theory of Knowledge (Ithaca, NY: Cornell, 1989)

"Toward a Logical Geography of Personality: Traits and Deeper Lying Personality Characteristics", in Mind, Science, and History, Vol. 2 of Contemporary Philosophic Thought (Albany, NY: State University of New York, 1970), 59-92

"Aune on Thought and Language", Nous 3 (1969), 169-83

"Unconscious Intellectual Dishonesty in Religion", in Intellectual Honesty and the Religious Commitment, eds. A.J. Bellinzoni, Jr. & T.V. Litzenberg, Jr. (Philadelphia: Fortress, 1969), 25-44

"Comments on ‘Creativity in Hartshorne's World View’, by Lewis E. Hahn", in Philosophy of Creativity, Monograph Series, Vol. I (Carbondale, IL: Foundations for Creative Philosophy, 1969), 15-18

"Feelings", Philosophical Review 78 (1969), 3-34

"Moral Attitudes and Moral Judgments", Nous 2 (1968), 1-23

"Wants, Actions, and Causal Explanation", in Intentionality, Minds, and Perception, ed. H.N. Castaneda (Detroit: Wayne State University Press, 1967), 301-41

Articles in the Encyclopedia of Philosophy, ed. P. Edwards (New York: MacMillan and Free Press, 1967)

"Emotion and Feeling", 2:479-86

"Emotive Meaning", 2:486-93

"Language", 4:384-86

"Language, Philosophy of", 4:386-90

"Meaning", 5:233-41

"Motives and Motivation", 5:399-409

"Philosophy of Religion, Problems of", 6:285-89

"Pleasure", 6:341-47

"Psychoanalytic Theories, Logical Status of", 6:512-16

"Religion", 7:140-45

"Religion, Naturalistic Reconstructions of", 7:145-47

"Religion, Psychological Explanations of", 7:148-50

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