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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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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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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Freddie (he hated his given name Alfred) Ayer started along the path towards an extraordinary prominence with the publication in 1936 of...
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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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The novel is a narrative, fictional version of a philosophical anatomy of the satanic dimension and implication of much modern history from...
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Anscombe, Foot, Midgley, and Murdoch were the first school of philosophy led by women, ever. As they worked on their shared project, they carried a heavier...
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The daughters of the literary luminaries Joseph Heller, A. J. Ayer and William Styron have their own tales to tell — about their fathers.
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Their three-year fling — which ended when he died in her living room — has shaped my life in immeasurable ways...
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The subtitle that Richard Wolin has attached to his new book on Martin Heidegger is “Between Philosophy and Ideology,” and it pitches one of...
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