A.J. Ayer's Books
Authors on the Web
Australian Policy Online, February 7, 2013
...John Lenarcic of The Conversation comments on the recent Twitter war of words. Writing for Edge in 2007, Professor Martin Rees – then President of the Royal Society and ongoing Astronomer Royal – quipped: “The global village will have its village...
Guardian.co.uk, September 8, 2012
...Miriam Gross's memoir has plenty of colour but at times feels curiously detached Miriam Gross is a respected journalist who spent much of her career working on newspaper books desks – first on this paper, as Terence Kilmartin's long-serving deputy, and...
The Independent, July 28, 2012
...I think continually of those who were truly great": Stephen Spender's (sole?) oft-quoted line captures perfectly the sensibility of this 1930s writer, who flourished around WH Auden yet was eclipsed by the latter's exceptional poetical talents. In 1994,...
Open Democracy, June 21, 2012
...key combatants, among the most prominent of whom were Richard Hare, Bertrand Russell, Stuart Hampshire, Ernest Gellner and A.J. Ayer. For good measure, he interviewed contending historians too in what turned out to be a witty survey of British...
Deccan Chronicle, December 23, 2012
...pop up to remind me of the fallibility of the human intellect — Bertrand Russell, Jean-Paul Sartre and A.J. Ayer. Wonderful entertainment value, brilliant, sparkling, diamantine, but one would not turn to any of them, let alone all three together, for...
New York Times, December 14, 2012
...in the 20th century, when logical positivists of the Vienna Circle and their Anglophone admirers (W.V. Quine, A.J. Ayer) de-emphasized “philosophy’s traditional concern” with questions of metaphysics and ethics, and deferred to science as the...
New York Times, December 13, 2012
...in the 20th century, when logical positivists of the Vienna Circle and their Anglophone admirers (W.V. Quine, A.J. Ayer) de-emphasized “philosophy’s traditional concern” with questions of metaphysics and ethics, and deferred to science as the...
ABC Online, November 15, 2012
...in philosophy, only good and bad practitioners - the latter deserving of opprobrium in terms that would do A.J. Ayer's "hooray/boo" theory of moral discourse proud. Faith in Darwin is a sine qua non for Leiter's good philosophers, as Jerry Fodor learned...
Telegraph, November 7, 2012
..., who has died aged 84, was a neurobiologist who elucidated the neural mechanisms of learning and memory; from 1992 to 1999 he was Master of Sidney Sussex College, Cambridge. Horns first scientific publication, while a medical student at the University...
Irish Times, September 21, 2012
...: IN 1957, two years after Exeter University gained its royal charter, Daniel John O'Connor, who has died aged 98, set about expanding its philosophy department. Known to colleagues and students as Dan, he was a gifted communicator. His clear, precise...
Eastlondonlines, September 20, 2012
...to exercise your faculties, from the intellectual to aesthetic to the highly physical. Whether you lie at the A.J. Ayer or the Mike Tyson end of that spectrum (or span it like a superhuman!) there should be something to tickle your fancy in one of our...
