AJ.Ayer: Memorial Essays Edited by A. Phillips Griffiths Downloaded from https://www.cambridge.org/core. IP address: 170.106.202.126, on 27 Sep 2021 at 09:06:45, subject to the Cambridge Core terms of use, available at https://www.cambridge.org/core/terms. https://doi.org/10.1017/S135824610000761X A. J. Ayer Memorial Essays ROYAL INSTITUTE OF PHILOSOPHY SUPPLEMENT: 30 EDITED BY A. Phillips Griffiths The right of the University of Cambridge to print and sell all manner of hooks was grained by Henry VIII in 1534. The University has printed and published continuously since 1584. CAMBRIDGE UNIVERSITY PRESS CAMBRIDGE NEW YORK PORT CHESTER MELBOURNE SYDNEY Downloaded from https://www.cambridge.org/core. IP address: 170.106.202.126, on 27 Sep 2021 at 09:06:45, subject to the Cambridge Core terms of use, available at https://www.cambridge.org/core/terms. https://doi.org/10.1017/S135824610000761X Published by the Press Syndicate of the University of Cambridge The Pitt Building, Trumpington Street, Cambridge, CB2 1RP 40 West 20th Street, New York, NY 10011-4211, USA 10 Stamford Road, Oakleigh, Victoria 3166, Australia © The Royal Institute of Philosophy 1991 A catalogue record for this book is available from the British Library ISBN 0 521 42246 9 (paperback) 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 Origination by Michael Heath Ltd, Reigate, Surrey Printed in Great Britain by the University Press, Cambridge Downloaded from https://www.cambridge.org/core. IP address: 170.106.202.126, on 27 Sep 2021 at 09:06:45, subject to the Cambridge Core terms of use, available at https://www.cambridge.org/core/terms. https://doi.org/10.1017/S135824610000761X Contents Preface v A Defence of Empiricism 1 A. j. AYER Ayer: the Man, the Philosopher, 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 111 Downloaded from https://www.cambridge.org/core. IP address: 170.106.202.126, on 27 Sep 2021 at 09:06:45, subject to the Cambridge Core terms of use, available at https://www.cambridge.org/core/terms. https://doi.org/10.1017/S135824610000761X Contents Subjectivism and Toleration 197 BERNARD WILLIAMS An Interview with A. J. Ayer 209 TED HONDERICH Notes on Contributors 227 References 229 Index 237 Downloaded from https://www.cambridge.org/core. IP address: 170.106.202.126, on 27 Sep 2021 at 09:06:45, subject to the Cambridge Core terms of use, available at https://www.cambridge.org/core/terms. https://doi.org/10.1017/S135824610000761X.