The philosophy of A.J. Ayer /
This, the 21st volume in the Library of Living Philosophers, is more than Sir Alfred Ayer's final word on the philosophical issues that preoccupied him for more than sixty years; the list of contributors is a roll-call of some of the greatest living figures in philosophy, each expertly addressi...
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Chicago, IL :
Open Court,
1992
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Table of Contents:
- Reply to Arne Naess. Ayer on free will and determinism / D.J. O'Connor
- Reply to D.J. O'Connor. Ayerian Qualia and the Empiricist Heritage / Desiree Park
- Reply to Desiree Park. Ayer's views on meaning-rules / David F. Pears
- Reply to David Pears. Remarks on Locical Empiricism and some of A.J. Ayer's achievements : some fifty years later / Azarya Polikarov and Dimitri Ginev
- Reply to Professors Polikarov and Ginev. Is it necessary that water is H2O? / Hilary Putnam
- Reply to Hilary Putnam. Ayer's philosophy of logic and mathematics / Francisco Miro Quesada C.
- Reply to F. Miro Quesada. Ayer and ontology / Anthony Quinton
- Reply to Lord Quinton. Ayer's treatment of Russell / Emanuele Riverso
- Reply to Emanuele Riverso. Ayer on perception and reality / Ernest Sosa
- Reply to Ernest Sosa. Ayer on other minds / T.L.S. Sprigge
- Reply to T.L.S. Sprigge. Ayer's Hume / Barry Stroud
- Ayer on morality and feeling : from subjectivism to emotivism and back? / David Wiggins
- pt. 3. Bibliography of the writings of A.J. Ayer / Compiled by Guida Crowley
- pt. 1. Intellectual autobiography of A.J. Ayer. My mental development / A.J. Ayer
- pt. 2. Descriptive and critical essays on the philosophy of A.J. Ayer, with replies. Varieties of meaning and truth / Evandro Agazzi
- Ayer and pragmatism / James Campbell
- Reply to James Campbell. On judging sufficiency of evidence / David S. Clarke, Jr.
- Reply to David S. Clarke, Jr. The metaphysics of verificationism / Michael Dummett
- Reply to Michael Dummett. A.J. Ayer's philosophical method / Elizabeth R. Eames
- Reply to Elizabeth R. Eames. The construction of the physical world / John Foster
- Reply to John Foster. On Sir Alfred Ayer's theory of truth / Paul Gochet
- Reply to Paul Gochet. Man as a subject for social science / Martin Hollis
- Reply to Martin Hollis. Causation : one thing just happens after another / Ted Honderich
- Reply to Ted Honderich. Ayer and the Vienna Circle / Tscha Hung
- Reply to Tscha Hung. "Oh boy! You too!": Aesthetic emotivism reexamined / Peter Kivy
- Reply to Peter Kivy. Ayer on metaphysics, a critical commentary by a kind of metaphysican / Arne Naess