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., Perceiving God: The Epistemology of Religious Experience, Ithaca, N. Y .: Cornell University Press, 1991

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

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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

Together with Alvin Plantinga, Nicholas Wolterstorff, and Robert Adams, Alston helped to found the journal Faith and Philosophy and the Society of Christian Philosophers.

Alston was made an honorary Doctor of Philosophy ( Dance ) at the University of Surrey in 1992 and in 2003 he received an honorary MA from University College Chichester.

Walter Alston was elected to the National Baseball Hall of Fame and Museum in 1983.

Others have noted that by staying with a physically fragile pitcher in an ultimate game with two runners on base, a two run lead, a rested pitcher who had performed well in the post season ready in the bullpen and the other team's MVP on deck, Little did exactly what Hall of Fame manager Walter Alston did with Sandy Koufax in Game 7 of the 1965 World Series, which Alston's Dodgers won.

Longridge is also the location of Alston Hall, a residential adult education college operated by Lancashire Adult Learning.

In 1962 when the Dodgers led the NL for most of the season ( only to find themselves tied with the hated Giants at the season's end ) it was Snider and third-base coach Leo Durocher who reportedly pleaded with Manager Walter Alston to bring in future Hall of Fame pitcher ( and Cy Young award winner that year ), Don Drysdale, in the ninth inning of the third and deciding play-off game.

The Victorian writer Frances Trollope, ( Anthony Trollope's mother ) lived for a while at a house called Carleton Hill ( not be confused with Carleton Hall ) just outside the town on the Alston road.

In, Lasorda became the third-base coach on the staff of Hall of Fame manager Walter Alston, serving for almost four seasons.

Baseball Hall of Fame manager Walter Alston is also a graduate of Miami.

Alston would go on to sign 23 one-year contracts with O ' Malley, while winning seven NL pennants, four World Series, and a berth in the Baseball Hall of Fame.