Ayer Writings in Philosophy

A. J. AYER (1910-1989) studied philosophy with members of the Vienna Circle in the 1920s before teaching philosophy at Oxford and London universities. He became Wykeham Professor of Logic at Oxford in 1959. He was highly influential in the development of analytical philosophy,and a great populariser of the subject. Among his many books, Language, Truth and Logic, written in 1936, is the best known, and still widely studied by philosophy students. - TED HONDERICH is Grote Professor of Philosophy of Mind and Logic Emeritus, University of London. He is Editor of the Oxford Companion to Philosophy.

• VOLUME 1 - Introduction; T.Honderich - Language, Truth and Logic (1936), 254pp - VOLUME 2 - Foundations of Empirical Knowledge ( 1940), 276pp - VOLUME 3 - The Problem of Knowledge (1953), 223pp - and - Probability and Evidence (1972), 144pp - VOLUME 4 - The Concept of the Person, and Other Essays (1963), 272pp - VOLUME 5 - The Origins of Pragmatism (1968), 346pp - VOLUME 6 - Bertrand Russell and G.E.Moore: The Analytical Heritage (1971), 245pp - VOLUME 7 - The Central Questions of Philosophy (1973), 243pp