A.J. Ayer was a British philosopher and educator and a leading representative of logical positivism through his widely read work Language,...
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Anthony Smith reviews A.J. Ayer: A Life in Philosophy.
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Ayer at last secured an Oxford fellowship. One year later, in 1946, he was appointed Grote Professor of Mental Philosophy at University College, London.
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Andrew Brown and I both seem to agree that science cannot tell us if the soul exists or what it's like. As a source of self-knowledge, the brain has limits.
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Philosophically, Sir Alfred Ayer was in a very awkward position: it was 1988, he was seventy-seven, and he was dead. Indeed, he'd 'passed to the other side'...
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