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A.J. Ayer and Logical Positivism

Ayer on the Web

Ayer by Ted Honderich
Language Truth and Logic excerpt
Problem of Knowledge excerpt
Probability and Evidence excerpt
Logical Empiricism chapter, including some excerpts from Ayer's writings
National Post 2001 article on Ayer's near death experience (also at this URL)
Ayer: Writings in Philosophy (7 Volume Set, A Palgrave Macmillan Archive Collection)
New Republic review of Ben Rogers' Ayer bio
Google search
A.J. Ayer Google Directory
A. J. Ayer site listings at Yahoo!
A.J. Ayer books at Amazon.com
Ayer CD-ROM

Logical Positivism - "[The Logical Positivists] said that any statement that wasn't either a formal statement (a statement in logic or mathematics), or empirically testable, was nonsensical." --A.J. Ayer

Lugwig Wittgenstein's Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus
Institute Vienna Circle
Logical Positivism site listings at Yahoo!
"Empiricism, Semantics, and Ontology" by RUDOLF CARNAP
Google search

Bertrand Russell

The Bertrand Russell Archives
The Bertrand Russell Society
On the Value of Scepticism
Bertrand Russell quotes at TPCN
Google search

Some Freethinker Links

Thomas Paine National Historical Association
The Age of Reason by Thomas Paine (etext)
Lectures of Col. R. G. Ingersoll, Volume I (etext)
Lectures of Col. R.G. Ingersoll - Latest (etext)

Resources for further exploration of ideas

Online Papers in Philosophy
Epistemelinks.com Electronic Texts
The Internet Public Library
Philosophy - resources, etc.
The Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy - Texts, etc.
Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy
Blackwell resources
APA publication texts
Galaxy resources
The Philosophers' Magazine

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