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This is a representative collection of the work of A.J. Ayer, one of the most influential contemporary philosophers. It includes his Whidden lectures on freedom and morality, which were presented at McMaster University in 1983, a previously unpublished essay on J.L. Mackie's Theory of Causal Priority, and seven other essays which cover such topics as: references and identity, the causal theory of perception, the prisoner's paradox, self-eviden...

Excerpt from The Concept of a Person: And Other EssaysBristol in April 1957, and On the Probability Of Particular Events' was published in No. 58, Fasc. 4, of the Revue Internationale de Philosophie in 1961.My thanks are due to the editors, institutions, and publishers concerned for permission to reprint this set of articles, and also to my secretary, Mrs. Rosanne Richardson.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of...

Excerpt from The Concept of a Person: And Other EssaysBristol in April 1957, and On the Probability Of Particular Events' was published in No. 58, Fasc. 4, of the Revue Internationale de Philosophie in 1961.My thanks are due to the editors, institutions, and publishers concerned for permission to reprint this set of articles, and also to my secretary, Mrs. Rosanne Richardson.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of...

First published in 1952, British Empirical Philosophers is a comprehensive picture of one of the most important movements in the history of philosophic thought.

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A. J. Ayer was one of the foremost analytical philosophers of the twentieth century, and was known as a brilliant and engaging speaker. In essays based on his influential Dewey Lectures, Ayer addresses some of the most critical and controversial questions in epistemology and the philosophy of science, examining the nature of inductive reasoning and grappling with the issues that most concerned him as a philosopher. This edition contains revise...

A. J. Ayer was one of the foremost analytical philosophers of the twentieth century, and was known as a brilliant and engaging speaker. In essays based on his influential Dewey Lectures, Ayer addresses some of the most critical and controversial questions in epistemology and the philosophy of science, examining the nature of inductive reasoning and grappling with the issues that most concerned him as a philosopher. This edition contains revise...

With extraordinary concision and clarity, A.J. Ayer gives an account of the major incidents of Betrand Russell's life and an exposition of the whole range of his philosophy.

Hume's "naturalist" approach to a wide variety of philosophical topics resulted in highly original theories about perception, self-identity, causation, morality, politics, and religion, all of which are discussed in this stimulating introduction by A.J. Ayer, himself one of the twentieth century's most important philosophers. Ayer also gives an account of Hume's fascinating life and character, and includes generous quotations from Hume's lucid...

In Probability and Evidence, one of Britain's foremost twentieth-century philosophers addresses central questions in the theory of knowledge and the philosophy of science. This book contains A.J. Ayer's John Dewey Lectures delivered at Columbia University, together with two additional essays, "Has Harrod Answered Hume?" and "The Problem of Conditionals.

?Of special value, partly because of its comprehensive authoritative introduction, partly because it translates for the first time important papers of the Vienna circle (Schlick, Carnap and Neurath). The book gives more than it promises, the text as well as the extensive bibliography including contributions of the analysts.?-Hibbert Journal

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