The Verification Principle was created to separate meaningful discourse from non-meaningful discourse. Ayer by Geoff Howard, 1978, via National Portrait Gallery Ayer and What Was the Verification Principle? Portrait of A. Ayer: Still More of My Lifeīibliography of the Writings of A.J.Who Was A. Postscript to the Intellectual Autobiography of A.J. Sprigge: Ayer on Other Minds Barry Stroud: Ayer's Hume David Wiggins: Ayer on Morality and Feeling: From Subjectivism to Emotivism and Back?Ī.J. Ayer's Achievements: Some Fifty Years Later Hilary Putnam: Is It Necessary that Water is H20? Francisco Miró Quesada C.: Ayer's Philosophy of Logic and Mathematics Anthony Quinton: Ayer and Ontology Emanuele Riverso: Ayer's Treatment of Russell Ernest Sosa: Ayer on Perception and Reality T.L.S. Pears: Ayer's Views on Meaning-Rules Azarya Polikarov/Dimitri Ginev: Remarks on Logical Empiricism and Some of A.J. O'Connor: Ayer on Free Will and Determinism Désirée Park: Ayerian Qualia and the Empiricist Heritage David F. Ayer's Philosophical Method John Foster: The Construction of the Physical World Paul Gochet: On Sir Alfred Ayer's Theory of Truth Martin Hollils: Man as a Subject for Social Science Ted Honderich: Causation: One Thing Just Happens After Another Tscha Hung: Ayer and the Vienna Circle Peter Kivy: Oh Boy! You Too!: Aesthetic Emotivism Reexamined Arne Naess: Ayer on Metaphysics, a Critical Commentary by a Kind of Metaphysician D.J. Clarke, Jr.: On Judging Sufficiency of Evidence Michael Dummett: The Metaphysics of Verificationism Elizabeth R.
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Most of the critical papers for this volume are answered directly and in detail by Sir Alfred-he completed his replies to 21 of the 24 papers before his death. In his subsequent writings, he displayed a rare capacity for self-criticism, manifested in a readiness to admit that his earlier arguments had been inadequate. The ensuing vogue for "ordinary language" philosophy was not admired by Ayer, who became one of its most telling critics.
Yet inside a few years, philosophers were retreating from the position set forth in Language, Truth, and Logic, with Ayer himself leading the retreat. Ayer burst like a supernova upon the Anglo-American philosophical world in 1936, with Language, Truth, and Logic, an eloquent manifesto for Logical Positivism which transformed the thinking of a generation.
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