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Conversations with Philosophers

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4: A. J. Ayer , Professor of Logic, in the University of Oxford. talking to BRYAN MAGEE about his own work
A. J. Ayer was 25 when he introduced Logical Positivism into England in his explosive and now classic book Language, Truth, and Logic. In this conversation he reflects critically on it and goes on to discuss his later work up to the present day.
(Edited versions of these talks will be published weekly in The Listener from 10 December)

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A. J. Ayer
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Bryan Magee
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A. J. Ayer

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