A series of 15 programmes in which Bryan Magee talks to 15 leading philosophers about Western philosophy today.
6: Logical Positivism and its Legacy with Sir Alfred J. Ayer , Professor of Logic, Oxford
In the 20s a group of people came together in Austria, known as the Vienna Circle, who developed a new form of philosophy called Logical Positivism. Basing itself entirely on logic and science, it was destructive of all established ideas in religion, politics and =philosophy. The man who introduced
Logical Positivism into England, and has been chiefly associated with it ever since, is A. J. AYER.
Series prepared by BRYAN MAGEE Director TONY TYLEY
Executive producer JANET HOENIG
(A shortened version of this discussion will be in THE LISTENER dated 2 March)