William Payne Alston was an American philosopher. He is widely considered to be one of the most important epistemologists and philosophers of religion of the twentieth century, and is also known for his work in metaphysics and the philosophy of language. His views on foundationalism, internalism and externalism, speech acts, and the epistemic value of mystical experience, among many other topics, have been very influential. He earned his PhD from the University of Chicago and taught at the University of Michigan, Rutgers University, University of Illinois, and Syracuse University.

Philosophy of Language (Foundations of Philosophy)
1964
ISBN 9780136637998
Beyond "Justification"
2004
ISBN 9780801473326
Epistemology: An Anthology
1999
ISBN 9780631197249
Religious belief and philosophical thought
1963
ISBN 9780155758513
Perceiving God
1991
ISBN 9780801425974
A realist conception of truth
1996
ISBN 9780801484100
A sensible metaphysical realism
2001
ISBN 9780874621686
Realism & Antirealism
2002
ISBN 9780801487903
Readings in twentieth century philosophy
1963
ISBN 9780029005606
The problems of philosophy
1967
ISBN 0205961109
Los Orígenes de la filosofía analítica
1976
ISBN 9788430906666
Divine nature and human language
1989
ISBN 9781501733161
Epistemic justification
1989
ISBN 9780801422577
Ŏnŏ ch'ŏrhak
1992
ISBN 9788937440496
Faith, reason, and skepticism
1992
ISBN 9780877228530
The Reliability of Sense Perception
1993
ISBN 9780801428623
Illocutionary acts and sentence meaning
2000
ISBN 9781501700422
P'nei Shabbat
2002
ISBN 9780874417159
The Evidential Argument from Evil
2008
ISBN 9780253114099