In the late 1920s Alston joined Bearden and other black artists who refused to exhibit in William E. Harmon Foundation shows, which featured all-black artists in their traveling exhibits.

The collapse of logical positivism renewed interest in philosophy of religion, prompting philosophers like William Alston, John Mackie, Alvin Plantinga, Robert Merrihew Adams, Richard Swinburne, and Antony Flew not only to introduce new problems, but to re-open classical topics such as the nature of miracles, theistic arguments, the problem of evil, ( see existence of God ) the rationality of belief in God, concepts of the nature of God, and many more.

William Payne Alston ( November 29, 1921, Shreveport, Louisiana – September 13, 2009, Jamesville, New York ) was an American philosopher.

* 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., Divine Nature and Human Language: Essays in Philosophical Theology.

* Alston, William P., Philosophy of Language, Englewood Cliffs, Prentice Hall, 1964

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* William P. Alston: ' Illocutionary Acts and Sentence Meaning '.

In 1954, Plantinga began his graduate studies at the University of Michigan where he studied under William Alston, William Frankena, and Richard Cartwright, among others.

* William J. Alston, United States Representative to the Thirty-first Congress

Currently named the William H. Alston Municipal Public Library, it is one of two municipal public libraries in the state.

American philosopher William Alston attempted to defend divine command from the Euthyphro dilemma by considering what it means for God to be morally good.

Nathaniel Macon is the great-grandfather of Congressman Charles Martin, the uncle of Willis Alston and Micajah Thomas Hawkins, great-uncle of Matt Whitaker Ransom, Robert Ransom and Thomas Jefferson Green, great-great-uncle of Wharton Jackson Green, John Pegram, William Ransom Johnson Pegram, and David Harrison Macon, great-great-great-great-uncle of Claude Kitchin and William Walton Kitchin, and the great-great-great-great-great-uncle of Alvin Paul Kitchin.

* William Alston

He married Eleanor Kearney, the youngest daughter of William Kinchen Kearney and Benjamin Hardee James Marie Alston Kearney, in 1860 and was the father of six children: Dr. William Kearney Carr, John Buxton Carr, Mary Elizabeth Carr, Elias Carr, Eleanor Kearney Carr, and Annie Bruce Carr.

* Winterton, G, " Limits to the Use of the Treaty Power " in P Alston & M Chiam ( eds ), Treaty-Making and Australia: Globalisation versus Sovereignty ?, Federation Press ( 1995 ), 29-51.

Thus William P. Alston writes, " since the standards of moral goodness are set by divine commands, to say that God is morally good is just to say that he obeys his own commands ... that God practises what he preaches, whatever that might be ", and Hutcheson deems such a view " an insignificant Tautology, amounting to no more than this, ' That God wills what he wills.

This response is found in Francisco Suárez's discussion of natural law and voluntarism in De legibus, and has been very prominent in contemporary philosophy of religion, appearing in the work of Robert M. Adams, Philip L. Quinn, and William P. Alston.

Others awarded have included R. P. Alston Memorial Prize for developments in flight-testing, Edward Busk prize for applied aerodynamics, an Orville Wright Prize.

* Alston, William P .. Illocutionary Acts and Sentence Meaning.

* Alston, William P. ( 1991 ).

* Alston, William P. ( 1996 ).

* Alston, William P. " Aquinas and Hartshorne: A Via Media ", in Divine Nature and Human Language.

For example, Atlanta-based Alston & Bird acquired 50-lawyer German-focused corporate boutique Walter, Conston, Alexander & Green, P. C.

* Chase, Alston, In a Dark Wood: The Fight over Forests & the Myths of Nature, New Brunswick, N. J., Transaction Publishers, 2001 ISBN 0-7658-0752-1

* de Jong, Cees W., Alston W. Purvis, Martijn F. Le Coultre, Richard B. Doubleday and Hans Reichart.

Meggs, Philip B., Purvis, Alston W. History of Graphic Design.

* An Essay towards an Investigation of the Origin and Elements of Language and Letters, London, Printed by T. Spilsbury for S. Leacroft ( 1772 ); reprinted: R. C. Alston, ed., English Linguistics, 1500-1800: a Collection of Facsimile Reprints, No. 354.

* Rossie D. Alston, Jr., Judge

If divine command theory is accepted, it implies that God is good because he obeys his own commands ; Alston argued that this is not the case and that God's goodness is distinct from abiding by moral obligations.

He suggested that a moral obligation implies that there is some possibility that the agent may not honour their obligation ; Alston argued that this possibility does not exist for God, so his morality must be distinct from simply obeying his own commands.

Alston contented that God is the supreme standard of morality and acts according to his character, which is necessarily good.

If one asks why God is identified as the ultimate standard for goodness, Alston replies that this is " the end of the line ", with no further explanation available, but adds that this is no more arbitrary than a view which invokes some fundamental moral standard.

In the philosophy of religion, reformed epistemology is a school of thought regarding the epistemology of belief in God put forward by a group of Protestant Christian philosophers, most notably, Alvin Plantinga, William Alston, Nicholas Wolterstorff and Michael C. Rea.