AJ.Ayer: Memorial Essays

Edited by A. Phillips Griffiths

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ROYAL INSTITUTE OF SUPPLEMENT: 30

EDITED BY A. Phillips Griffiths

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Library of Congress Cataloguing in Publication Data A. J. Ayer memorial essays/edited by A. Phillips Griffiths p. cm. Also published as second 1991 supplement to the journal Philosophy and as v. 30 in the series Royal Institute of Philosophy lecture series. Includes bibliographical references and index. ISBN 0 521 42246 9 1. Ayer, A. J. (Alfred Jules), 1910- . 2. Philosophy I. Ayer, A. J. (Alfred Jules), 1910- . II. Griffiths A. Phillips. B1618.A94A63 1991 91-32637 192-dc20 CIP

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Preface v

A Defence of Empiricism 1 A. j. AYER

Ayer: the Man, the , the Teacher 17 RICHARD WOLLHEIM

Ayer's Place in the History of Philosophy 31 ANTHONY QUINTON

AYER'S ATTACK ON METAPHYSICS 49 D. M. MACKINNON

Ayer and World Views 63 FREDERICK COPLESTON

Language, Newspeak and Logic 77 S. R. SUTHERLAND

On the relation between Common Sense, Science and Metaphysics 89 STEPHAN KORNER

Logical Positivism and Intentionality 105 HILARY PUTNAM

Probability and the Evidence of our Senses 117 D. H. MELLOR

Seeing Qualia and Positing the World 129 TED HONDERICH

Three Varieties of Knowledge 153 DONALD DAVIDSON

The Importance of 'If 167 JOHN WATLING

Ayer's Ethical Theory: Emotivism or Subjectivism? 181 DAVID WIGGINS

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Subjectivism and Toleration 197 BERNARD WILLIAMS

An Interview with A. J. Ayer 209

TED HONDERICH

Notes on Contributors 227

References 229

Index 237

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