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	John Alston of early North Carolina (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		WILLIAM WILLIAMS COL was born at Bertie, North Carolina.
		WILLIAM ALSTON COL was born on 7 Oct 1747 at Edgecombe, North Carolina.
		MARY ALSTON was born on 5 Dec 1751 at Edgecombe, North Carolina.
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	Davidson/Phalin Family Tree - pafg41 - Generated by Personal Ancestral File (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		William Alston was born in 1703 in Of,, Chowan, North Carolina.
		William Alston was born on 13 Aug 1637 in Parhaven, Bedford, Eng.
		William Alston was born in 1587 in Of Suffolk,,,, England.
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	William P. Alston - Beyond "Justification": Dimensions of Epistemic Evaluation - Reviewed by Richard Feldman, ...
		Alston argues in Chapter 1 that "the widespread supposition that 'justified' picks out an objective feature of belief that is of central epistemic importance is a thoroughly misguided one."(11) His defense of this begins with a presentation of numerous passages in which philosophers present widely different views about justification.
		Alston says that "short of the basic desideratum of truth itself, no status of a belief can be more favorable vis-a-vis the goal of truth than a status that renders the belief at least likely to be true."(36) I find this a bit puzzling.
		Alston admits that the premises of a track-record argument for the reliability of perception can be adequately grounded, as he must given his view that a premise is adequately grounded if it is based on grounds that make it likely to be true.
	ndpr.nd.edu /review.cfm?id=3461 (2127 words)

	Why Alston's Mystical Doxastic Practice Is Subjective
		But Alston seems unaware that there is trouble in River City judging by his unintended humorous remark at the end of his account of M-experiences as perceptual, "So far so good," and his overlooking this problem in all of his many later efforts to neutralize challenges to MPs being a reliable objective DP.
		If Alston means to take their word for it, then he is, in effect, adding a further condition to his above analysis so that it is also necessary that S takes the state of consciousness to be perceptual.
		Alston frankly admits that this disanalogy "shows that CMP (the Christian MP) is epistemically inferior to SP," but not so much as to show that the belief outputs of an MP are not prima facie justified.
	www.infidels.org /library/modern/richard_gale/alston.html (2205 words)

	Virginia and North Carolina Genealogical Exchange - pafg17 - Generatedby Personal Ancestral File (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		William Alston [Parents] was born about 1703 in of,, Chowan, North Carolina.
		Elizabeth Alston was born 1739 and died 1779.
		William Alston Col was born 7 Oct 1747 and died 15 Jul 1795.
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	My Family
		William Alston was born in 1769 in North Carolina.
		William Alston was born between 1694 and 1723.
		Alston was born on 25 Dec 1736 in North Carolina.
	www.fortunecity.com /millennium/hindmarsh/384/d50.htm (1046 words)

	PERCEIVING GOD: THE EPISTEMOLOGY OF RELIGIOUS EXPERIENCE, by William P
		In addition, as Alston is ready to point out, there is no connection to be found between the reliability of a practice and what percentage of the population employs it, so the fact that Cedric's practice is idiosyncratic fails to show that he is epistemically irrational in forming beliefs in the fashion he does.
		Alston's confidence in the conclusion derives from a confidence I'm not sure we should share about what would be the case if it were possible to abandon or alter certain basic belief-forming practices, such as sense perception.
		Though Alston does not clarify the notion of coherence, it is common practice to assume that coherent beliefs are at least consistent.
	www.missouri.edu /~kvanvigj/papers/ALSTONperceivinggod.htm (4982 words)

	20th WCP: Circularity and Stability
		William Alston argues that there is no way to show that any of our basic sources of belief is reliable without falling into epistemic circularity, i.e.
		Alston thinks, however, that there is a way of evaluating the reliability of our sources of belief that is independent of the beliefs based on those sources and that does not therefore fall into circularity.
		Alston's new pessimism seems to derive from his interest in finding some kind of external support for the reliability of our sources of belief, a support that is independent of the outputs of those sources (1991, p.
	www.bu.edu /wcp/Papers/TKno/TKnoLamm.htm (3331 words)

	Chronicles of Oklahoma
		Alston’s great-grandfather is said to have paid Sully 1,000 guineas, about $5,000 now, but a far greater sum in those early days of the 19th century, when dollars went much farther than they do now.
		Alston also has a set of blue willow ware, made in England, that is over 100 years old, as well as many pieces of glassware and silverware of colonial times.
		Alston is a courtly gentleman of the old Southern school and recalls clearly the scenes of his youth in South Carolina and Georgia, as well as pioneer days in Oklahoma.
	digital.library.okstate.edu /Chronicles/v007/v007p329.html (688 words)

	William Alston - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		William P. Alston (born 1921) is professor emeritus at Syracuse University, and has been influential as an epistemologist.
		Alston has also done important work in philosophy of language, philosophy of religion, metaphysics, history of philosophy and other fields.
		Alston is a past president of the American Philosophical Association and was one of the core figures in the late 20th century revival of the philosophy of religion.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/William_Alston (261 words)

	William P. Alston
		William P. Alston is a past President of the Central Division of the American Philosophical Association, of the Society for Philosophy and Psychology, and of the Society of Christian Philosophers.
		Perhaps best known for his work in the philosophy of language, epistemology, and the philosophy of religion, his impact is also felt in such areas as philosophical psychology and the history of philosophy.
		His most recent books are Perceiving God: A Study in the Epistemology of Religious Experience, (Cornell, 1991), The Reliability of Sense Perception, (Cornell, 1993), A Realist Conception of Truth (Cornell, 1995), and Illocutionary Acts and Sentence Meaning (Cornell, 2000).
	philosophy.syr.edu /FacAlston.htm (313 words)

	My Family
		She was married to William Fownes between 1441 and 1475.
		William Doyle IHNFELDT was born on 12 Jan 1939.
		William Dwayne IHNFELDT was born on 26 Aug 1962.
	www.fortunecity.com /millennium/hindmarsh/384/d521.htm (636 words)

	Can Mystical Experience be a Perception of God? (via CobWeb/3.1 planetlab2.cs.umd.edu) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		William Alston's Perceiving God argues that some mystical experiences should be regarded as perceptions of God analogous to the perception of physical objects in sense experience.
		Alston argues that M-beliefs are prima facie justified because the objects of perception are presented to the subject as such-and-such.
		Alston argues that, although it is possible for the central tenets of Christianity to come into conflict with the results of historical research, he does not think that such conflict has actually occurred.
	www.infidels.org.cob-web.org:8888 /library/modern/keith_augustine/alston.html (9219 words)

	What Is Naturalism, that We Should Be Mindful of It?
		William P. Alston, Ph.D. Dr. William P. Alston is Professor of Philosophy at Syracuse University.
		Alston’s published articles number more than one hundred and range over many topics including the problem of evil, realism, epistemic warrant and justification, divine action, and religious language to name a few.
		For example, he quotes William Dennes as saying: "There is for naturalism no knowledge except of the type ordinarily called scientific", and responds as follows.
	www.leaderu.com /aip/docs/alston-naturalism.html (8390 words)

	Alston Paper
		This latter option is exemplified in William Alston's concept of epistemic justification and in Plantinga's warrant thesis.
		Alston's version of foundationalism distinguishes between various epistemic levels built up by the introduction and iteration of pistic and epistemic operators, thereby creating multiple levels of belief, justification, and knowledge.
		Recalling Alston's concept of justification (a belief that p is justified if and only if it is based on an adequate ground), what the justification of any belief depends upon is the existence of a valid epistemic principle that applies to the belief.
	www.homestead.com /philofreligion/files/Alstonpaper.html (7929 words)

	William Alston: “An internalist externalism” (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		The question of what it is for a belief to be based on something is a hard question; Alston’s own account of the basing relation seems to involve both externalist and internalist ingredients.
		Alston starts by distinguishing the activity of justifying from the state of being justified.
		Alston points out that many of us do not reflect on the adequacy of our grounds, and that many of us might often find it very hard to figure out the adequacy of our grounds to any reasonably level of accuracy.
	www.erin.utoronto.ca /~jnagel/333h11.htm (611 words)

	Lettie Alston
		Alston went on to teach at Wayne State University in 1983, the Detroit Public School in 1986, Oakland University as a Visiting Assistant Professor in 1987 and Eastern Michigan University in 1988.
		Alston was featured as composer/pianist in the 1999 Second Symposium of Black Women Composers at Hampton University.
		Alston is a recipient of the Music Study Club of Metropolitan Detroit Award, recipient of the ASCAP Standard Award, 2001 and 2002, Fellowship Award from the Oakland University Spring/Summer Research Fellowship and numerous OU faculty special project grants.
	www.under.org /cpcc/alston.htm (576 words)

	all things William
		I suggest that the anthropomorphic god-idea is not a harmless infirmity of human thought, but a very noxious fallacy, which is largely responsible for the calamities the world is at present enduring.
		The action of a shepherd in keeping sheep, performed as I have said in his kind, is as good a work before God as is the action of a judge in giving sentence, or of a magistrate in ruling, or a minister in preaching.
		God requireth not a uniformity of religion to be enacted in any civil state; which enforced uniformity (sooner or later) is the greatest occasion of civil war, ravishing of conscience, persecution of Christ Jesus in his servants, and of the hypocrisy and destruction of millions of souls.
	allthingswilliam.com /god.html (6091 words)

	Will of William Alston
		In the name of God Amen, I, William Alston of Charleston, Planter, being of sound and disposing mind and memory but mindful of the uncertainty of life do make publish and declare this to be my last Will and Testament hereby cancelling and revoking all former or other Wills and Testaments by me heretofore made.
		Item: I give and bequeath unto my sons Thomas Pinckney Alston and Charles C. Alston absolutely all my silver plate wheresoever the same may be to be equally divided between them and also all my books both in Charleston and in the country.
		Item: I give devise and reserve to my Son Thomas Pinckney Alston in fee simple five acres on Duburdieu’s Island to be laid off so as to have their Eastern line on the Sea and the Western line on the Marsh as a place of permanent residence.
	www.rootsweb.com /~sccyauha/wills/alstonwm.htm (452 words)

	Amazon.com: The Reliability of Sense Perception: Books: William P. Alston (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		The author, William Alston, reviews the contemporary philosophical literature and analyzes arguments purporting to demonstate that sense perception is reliable; he can find none, whether a priori or experiential, that doesn't fall into circularity by tacitly assuming that sense perception is reliable.
		Alston means a "doxastic practice" of belief formation which goes from sense perception to beliefs about the physical and social environment.) As he notes, many of the arguments in favor of the reliability of sense perception can be broken down into "a priori" and empirical arguments.
		Alston closes the book with his own argument in favor of the reliability of sense perception (which I confess I didn't understand very well) and an evaluation of the arguments offered.
	amazon.com /Reliability-Sense-Perception-William-Alston/dp/0801481015 (1888 words)

	Philosophy of Religion Reading List
		Alston taught at Syracuse and is one of the most important living philosophers of religion.
		This small book is a collection of four essays on faith and reason: "Knowledge of God" by William Alston, "Rationality and Religious Commitment" by Robert Audi, "Parity is not enough," by Terence Penelhum, and "Fideism, Quietism, and Unbelief: Skepticism for and against Religion in the Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries," by Richard Popkin.
		William James (1842-1910), the famous American psychologist and pragmatist philosopher, appreciately approaches the subject of religion from the perspective of the scientist and the philosopher.
	www3.baylor.edu /~Scott_Moore/Phil_Rel_Reading_list.html (2367 words)

	FAMILY GENEALOGY SITE
		Jesse Alston Robinson was born on Jan 26 1885 in Silas, Al..
		William Thomas (Jr) Rowe was born on Jul 21 1968.
		She was married to William Mackey Helms on Feb 2 1902 in Dale County, Al..
	www.aeriano.com /genealogy/d47.html (610 words)

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		WILLIAM HOWELL of Sussex Co., Va, to his sister MARY HOWELL of Warren Co., N.C. Wit: JAMES NICHOLSON (Jurat) and FRANCIS RIGGON.
		WILLIAM EDMONDS of Halifax Co, N.C. to WILLIAM GREEN of Warren Co. $133.
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	alston (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		The first two things to note about this website are that, as its title suggests, it is about William P. Alston, and it is under construction.
		A brief overview of Alston's philosophy of language, epistemology, metaphysics, and philosophy of religion.
		Two bibliographies, one on writings by Alston and one on writings about his work.
	www.ac.wwu.edu /~howardd/alston/alston.html (116 words)

	Perspectives on the Philosophy of William P. Alston Reference & Research Book News - Find Articles (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		Perspectives on the philosophy of William P. Alston.
		Alston, who retired from Syracuse University in 2000, responds to each of ten perspectives by fellow American scholars of philosophy on his ideas about epistemology, the philosophy of religion, and meaning and truth.
		Among the topics are epistemic justification, disagreement in philosophy, whether his response to religious diversity is an overstated case, more suggestions for divine command theorists, and a theory of assertives.
	www.findarticles.com /p/articles/mi_m0QLQ/is_3_20/ai_n15334363 (150 words)

	CSP - 'Perceiving God: The Epistemology of Religious Experience' by William Alston (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		Alston, William P. Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press.
		Note: As bizarre as it seems, someone can write a book on this topic in 1991 and not cite Pahnke, Leary, Huxley, Wasson, Huston Smith, Stace or other scholars on entheogens.
		The fact that hallucinatory experiences can exactly mimic the real thing certainly complicates the philosophy and psychology of perception, but it does not imply a general skepticism about perception.
	www.csp.org /chrestomathy/perceiving_god.html (447 words)

	Why I am a Christian
		William James made a famous distinction between once-born and twice-born religiosity.
		I was raised as a Methodist and then I went through the usual adolescent revolt.
		This site is part of the Telling the Truth Project.
	www.leaderu.com /truth/1truth23.html (795 words)

	Episode 11 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		Extrovertive experiences are described then William Lane Craig gives a description of his extrovertive experience on a September evening in 1965.
		Others like William Lane Craig claim that such experiences are self-authenticating while Richard Swinburne's Principle of Credulity, which shifts the burden of proof to the person discrediting the experience, is discussed.
		While many have found problems with Swinburne's Principle, it is suggested that perhaps William James' view that such metaphysical positions come not from our rational understanding but from our passional nature is closer to the truth.
	www.cpesbcc.net /ExaminedLife/Episode11.htm (734 words)

	Alston - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Alston is also a name, coming from Old_English and meaning from the old manor (or maybe Elf Stone).
		There are a number of people with the surname Alston:
		Walter Alston - Major League Baseball player and manager
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Alston (121 words)

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