324 Pages
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Routledge
324 Pages
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Routledge
324 Pages
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Routledge
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First Published in 1999. The purpose of this series is to provide a contemporary assessment and history of the entire course of philosophical thought. Each book constitutes a detailed, critical introduction to the work of a philosopher of major influence and significance. Alfred Jules Ayer was born on 29 October 1910 and still flourishes. Ayer’s philosophical writings to date include fourteen... Read more
Part I Meaning and Verification 1 The criterion of significance 2 The a priori and the analytic 3 The principle of verification 4 Is there a rationale for the verification principle? 5 Empirical atomism 6 Ayer’s reductionism 7 The relativity-factor 8 Ayer’s critique of ethics Part II Knowledge and Scepticism 1 Introduction 2 Ayer’s definition of knowledge 3 The truth-reliability thesis 4 Specifying the mode of arrival 5 The reason-furnishing thesis 6 The furnishing of reasons 7 The nature of scepticism 8 The four possible solutions 9 Perception 10 The nature of perceptual experience 11 Sense-experience and the physical world 12 Scepticism reconsidered Part III Man and Nature 1 The problem of induction 2 Hume’s argument 3 A priori probability 4 Ayer’s own position 5 The nomological-explanatory solution 6 Ayer’s account of causation 7 The reducibility thesis 8 The unity of the mind 9 Free will
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