id author title date pages extension mime words sentences flesch summary cache txt en-wikipedia-org-5965 William Alston - Wikipedia .html text/html 2326 497 52 Adler, Francis Bacon, Plato, René Descartes, and John Locke.[1] After being discharged, he entered a graduate program for philosophy at the University of Chicago, even though he had never formally taken a class on the subject.[2][3] While he was there, he learned more about philosophy from Richard McKeon and Charles Hartshorne, and he received his PhD in 1951.[1] Peterson, Alston helped to found the journal Faith and Philosophy.[6] With Plantinga, Wolterstorff, and others, Alston was also responsible for the development of "Reformed epistemology" (a term that Alston, an Episcopalian, never fully endorsed), one of the most important contributions to Christian thought in the twentieth century.[7] Alston was president of the Western Division (now the Central Division) of the American Philosophical Association in 1979, the Society for Philosophy and Psychology, and the Society of Christian Philosophers, which he co-founded. Perceiving God: The Epistemology of Religious Experience, Ithaca, New York: Cornell University Press, 1991. ./cache/en-wikipedia-org-5965.html ./txt/en-wikipedia-org-5965.txt