A J Ayer

Biographic Data

ID960454
NAMEA J Ayer
GIVEN NAMESA J
FAMILY NAMEAyer
SIGNATUREAYER A J
AFFILIATIONSBritish Academy
VERIFIEDNo
TOTAL WORKS40
TOTAL CITATIONS29
AUTHOR COUNT40
EDITOR COUNT0
FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR1946
LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR1990
H-INDEX3

  • Language, truth and logic

    A J AyerBOOKLanguage, truth and logic1990Cited by: 12

  • Thomas Paine

    Richard Twomey, A J AyerARTICLEJournal of American History1990

    Journal Article Thomas Paine. By A.J. Ayer. (New York: Atheneum, 1988. xii + 195 pp. $19.95.) Get access Richard Twomey Richard Twomey Saint Mary's University Halifax Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 76, Issue 4, March 1990, Page 1254, https://doi.org/10.2307/2936624 Published: 01 March 1990

  • Thomas Paine

    William Randel, William J Randel et al.ARTICLEAmerican Literature1989

  • Thomas Paine

    David A Wilson, A J AyerARTICLEThe William and Mary Quarterly1989

  • Freedom and morality and other essays

    A J AyerBOOKFreedom and morality and other…1984

    This is a representative collection of the work of the late 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his Whidden lectures on freedom and morality, which were presented at McMaster University in 1983, a previously unpublished essay on J.L. Mackie's Theory of Causal Priority, and seven other essays which cover such topics as references and identity, the causal theory of perception,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-e…

  • Replies

    A J AyerCHAPTERPerception and Identity1979

    I am very grateful to Mr Graham Macdonald for conceiving the plan of this volume and for the trouble which he has taken to put it into effect, and I am pleased and honoured by the interest which his chosen contributors have displayed in my work. Nearly all of them have been in regular contact with me for many years and I have surely learned more from their writings and conversation than they can have learned from mine. It will be seen that they d…

  • Probability and Evidence

    A J AyerREVIEWThe Philosophical Review1973Cited by: 1

    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

  • Probability and Evidence

    D H Mellor, A J AyerARTICLEThe Philosophical Quarterly1973

    Journal Article Book Reviews Get access Probability and Evidence. By A. J. Ayer. (London: Macmillan 1972. Pp. x + 144. Price £3.50) D. H. Mellor D. H. Mellor Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The Philosophical Quarterly, Volume 23, Issue 92, July 1973, Pages 272–274, https://doi.org/10.2307/2218012 Published: 01 July 1973

  • Russell and Moore: The Analytical Heritage

    Alan R White, A J AyerARTICLEThe Philosophical Quarterly1972

    Book Reviews Get access Russell and Moore: The Analytical Heritage. By A. J. Ayeb. (London: Macmillan. 1971. Pp. x + 254. Price £3.90) Alan R. White Alan R. White Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The Philosophical Quarterly, Volume 22, Issue 86, January 1972, Page 68, https://doi.org/10.2307/2218597 Published: 01 January 1972

  • The Origins of Pragmatism: Studies in the Philosophy of Charles Sanders Peirce and William James

    Richard Rorty, A J AyerARTICLEThe Philosophical Review1971

  • The Origins of Pragmatism: Studies in the Philosophy of Charles Sanders Peirce and William James

    H S Thayer, A J AyerARTICLEThe Philosophical Quarterly1970

    Journal Article Book Reviews Get access The Origins of Pragmatism : Studies in the philosophy of Charles Sanders Peirce and William James. By A. J. Ayer. (London : Macmillan. 1968. Pp. 347. Price 70s. San Francisco : Freeman Cooper. 1968. Pp. vii + 336. Price $8.00.) H. S. Thayer H. S. Thayer Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The Philosophical Quarterly, Volume 20, Issue 78, January 1970, Pages 80–82, https:…

  • Metaphysics and Common Sense

    A J AyerCHAPTERMetaphysics and Common Sense1969

  • Metaphysics and Common Sense

    Open AccessA J AyerBOOKMetaphysics and Common Sense1969

  • On Pragmatism

    Douglas Greenlee, A J Ayer et al.ARTICLEJournal of the History of Ideas1969

  • The Concept of a Person and Other Essays

    V C Chappell, Vere Chappell et al.ARTICLEThe Philosophical Review1968

  • The Revolution in Philosophy

    John M Hems, A J AyerARTICLEPhilosophy and Phenomenological…1968Cited by: 4

  • Has Austin refuted the sense-datum theory

    Open AccessA J AyerARTICLESynthese1967

  • Can There be a Private Language?

    A J AyerCHAPTERWittgenstein1966

  • The Concept of a Person, and Other Essays

    W H Walsh, A J AyerARTICLEThe Philosophical Quarterly1965

    Journal Article Book Reviews Get access The Concept of a Person, and other essays. By A. J. Ayer. (London : Macmillan. 1963. Pp. viii + 272. Price 30s). W. H. Walsh W. H. Walsh Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The Philosophical Quarterly, Volume 15, Issue 58, January 1965, Pages 76–78, https://doi.org/10.2307/2218637 Published: 01 January 1965

  • Names and Descriptions

    A J AyerCHAPTERThe Concept of a Person1963

    In the ordinary way, we do not talk of the meaning of a proper name. If I say ‘Napoleon died at St. Helena’ and someone fails to understand me because he does not know what the word ‘died’ means, he may be said to be ignorant of the English language. But if it is my reference to Napoleon or St. Helena that he fails to understand, he is thought to display ignorance, not of English, but of history or geography. We say that he does not know who Napo…

  • Truth

    A J AyerCHAPTERThe Concept of a Person1963

    At first sight there is nothing very puzzling about the concept of truth. It is not clear why there should be any need to look further than the straightforward account which Aristotle gave of it; ‘ To say of what is that it is not, or of what is not that it is, is false, while to say of what is that it is, or of what is not that it is not, is true.’ 1 In modern dress, this has developed into Tarski’s formula: ‘“ p ” is true in L if and only if p …

  • What is a law of nature?

    A J AyerCHAPTERThe Concept of a Person1963

    There is a sense in which we know well enough what is ordinarily meant by a law of nature. We can give examples. Thus it is, or is believed to be, a law of nature that the orbit of a planet around the sun is an ellipse, or that arsenic is poisonous, or that the intensity of a sensation is proportionate to the logarithm of the stimulus, or that there are 303,000,000,000,000,000,000,000 molecules in one gram of hydrogen. It is not a law of nature, …

  • Privacy

    A J AyerCHAPTERThe Concept of a Person1963

    In spite of the misgivings of philosophers, it is still a common practice to distinguish fairly sharply between mind and matter; and one of the principal features of this distinction is that a privacy which is denied to matter is attributed to mind. There are, however, many sorts of privacy: the word ‘private’ is used in a number of different ways, and the sense in which the contents of our minds are supposed to be private requires to be made cle…

  • Can There be a Private Language ?

    A J AyerCHAPTERThe Concept of a Person1963

    In a quite ordinary sense, it is obvious that there can be private languages. There can be, because there are. A language may be said to be private when it is devised to enable a limited number of persons to communicate with one another in a way that is not intelligible to anyone outside the group. By this criterion, thieves’ slang and family jargons are private languages. Such languages are not strictly private, in the sense that only one person…

  • Two Notes on Probability

    A J AyerCHAPTERThe Concept of a Person1963

    There is a fairly widespread view that, at least in one important sense of the term, probability is most properly attributed to statements: and that what is being asserted when it is said that a statement is probable, in this sense, is that it bears a certain relation to another statement, or set of statements, which may also be described as confirming, or supporting, or providing evidence for it. There are some, indeed, who maintain that this is…