TABLE OF CONTENTS FRONTISPIECE iv INTRODUCTION vii FOUNDER'S GENERAL INTRODUCTION TO THE LIBRARY OF LIVING PHILOSOPHERS ix ACKNOWLEDGMENTS xii PREFACE XVll PART ONE: INTELLECTUAL AUTOBIOGRAPHY OF A.J. AYER 1 Facsimile of Ayer's Handwriting 2 A.J. Ayer: My Mental Development 3 Still More of My Life 41 PART TWO: DESCRIPTIVE AND CRITICAL ESSAYS ON THE PHILOSOPHY OF A.J. AYER, WITH REPLIES 55 1. Evandro Agazzi: Varieties of Meaning and Truth 57 2. James Campbell: Ayer and Pragmatism 83 REPLY TO JAMES CAMPBELL 105 3. David S. Clarke, Jr.: On Judging Sufficiency of Evidence 109 REPLY TO DAVID S. CLARKE, JR. 125 4. Michael Dummett: The Metaphysics of Verificationism 128 REPLY TO MICHAEL DUMMETT 149 5. Elizabeth R. Eames: A.J. Ayer's Philosophical Method 157 REPLY TO ELIZABETH R. EAMES 175 6. John Foster: The Construction of the Physical World 179 REPLY TO JOHN FOSTER 198 xiv TABLE OF CONTENTS 7. Paul Gochet: On Sir Alfred Ayer's Theory of Truth 201 REPLY TO PAUL GOCHET 220 8. Martin Hollis: Man as a Subject for Social Science 225 REPLY TO MARTIN HOLLIS 237 9. Ted Honderich: Causation: One Thing Just Happens After Another 243 REPLY TO TED HONDERICH 271 lO. Tscha Hung: Ayer and the Vienna Circle 279 REPLY TO TSCHA HUNG 301 1l. Peter Kivy: Oh Boy! You Too!: Aesthetic Emotivism Reexamined 309 REPLY TO PETER KIVY 326 12. Arne Naess: Ayer on Metaphysics, a Critical Commentary by a Kind of Metaphysician 329 REPLY TO ARNE NAESS 341 13. D.J. O'Connor: Ayer on Free Will and Determinism 347 REPLY TO D.J. O'CONNOR 367 14. Desiree Park: Ayerian Qualia and the Empiricist Heritage 375 REPLY TO DESIREE PARK 387 15. David F. Pears: Ayer's Views on Meaning-Rules 393 REPLY TO DAVID F. PEARS 402 16. Azarya Polikarov and Dimitri Ginev: Remarks on Logical Empiricism and Some of A.J. Ayer's Achievements: Some Fifty Years Later 407 REPLY TO AZARYA POLIKAROV AND DIMITRI GINEV 425 17. Hilary Putnam: Is It Necessary that Water is H2O? 429 REPLY TO HILARY PUTNAM 455 18. Francisco Miro Quesada C.: Ayer's Philosophy of Logic and Mathematics 467 REPLY TO FRANCISCO MIRO QUESADA 478 19. Anthony Quinton: Ayer and Ontology 489 REPLY TO LoRD QUINTON 509 20. Emanuele Riverso: Ayer's Treatment of Russell 517 REPLY TO EMANUELE RIVERSO 542 2l. Ernest Sosa: Ayer on Perception and Reality 545 REPLY TO ERNEST SOSA 570 TABLE OF CONTENTS xv 22. T.L.S. Sprigge: Ayer on Other Minds 577 REPLY TO T.L.S. SPRIGGE 598 23. Barry Stroud: Ayer's Hume 609 24. David Wiggins: Ayer on Morality and Feeling: From Subjectivism to Emotivism and Back? 633 PART THREE: BIBLIOGRAPHY OF THE WRITINGS OF A.J. AYER 661 COMPILED BY MRS. GUIDA CROWLEY INDEX BY S.S. RAMA RAo PAPPU 681 .