in the twentieth century. 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. He was widely recognized as one of the core figures in the late twentieth-century revival of the philosophy of religion. He was elected a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 1990. Death Alston died in a nursing home in Jamesville, New York, on September 13, 2009, at the age of 87. Bibliography Beyond "Justification": Dimensions of Epistemic Evaluation, Ithaca, New York: Cornell University Press, 2005. A Sensible Metaphysical Realism (The Aquinas Lecture, 2001), Milwaukee, Wisconsin: Marquette University Press, 2001. Illocutionary Acts and Sentence Meaning, Ithaca, New York: Cornell University Press, 2000. A Realist Conception of Truth, Ithaca, New York: Cornell University Press, 1996. Epistemic Justification: Essays in the Theory of Knowledge, Ithaca, New York: Cornell University Press, 1996. The Reliability of Sense Perception, Ithaca, New York: Cornell University Press, 1993. Perceiving God: The Epistemology of Religious Experience, Ithaca, New York: Cornell University Press, 1991. Divine Nature and Human Language: Essays in Philosophical Theology. Ithaca, New York: Cornell University Press, 1989. Philosophy of Language, Englewood Cliffs, Prentice Hall, 1964 See also American philosophy List of American philosophers References Further reading 1921 births 2009 deaths 20th-century American philosophers 21st-century American philosophers American metaphysics writers Analytic philosophers Anglican philosophers Epistemologists Epistemology of religion Fellows of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences Metaphysicians People from DeWitt, New York Philosophers from Louisiana Philosophers from New York (state) Philosophers of language Philosophers of religion Presidents of the Society of Christian Philosophers Rutgers University faculty Syracuse University faculty University of Chicago alumni University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign faculty University of Michigan faculty Writers from Shreveport, Louisiana 20th-century American Episcopalians