Overview
- Provides the first comprehensive volume on Ayer’s Language, Truth and Logic
- Reconsiders the historical and philosophical significance of Ayer’s work
- Explores a wide variety of topics, from ethics, values and religion, to truth, epistemology and philosophy of language
Part of the book series: History of Analytic Philosophy (History of Analytic Philosophy)
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This edited collection provides the first comprehensive volume on A. J. Ayer’s 1936 masterpiece, Language, Truth and Logic. With eleven original chapters the volume reconsiders the historical and philosophical significance of Ayer’s work, examining its place in the history of analytic philosophy and its subsequent legacy. Making use of pioneering research in logical empiricism, the contributors explore a wide variety of topics, from ethics, values and religion, to truth, epistemology and philosophy of language. Among the questions discussed are: How did Ayer preserve or distort the views and conceptions of logical empiricists? How are Ayer's arguments different from the ones he aimed at reconstructing? And which aspects of the book were responsible for its immense impact?
The volume expertly places Language, Truth and Logic in the intellectual and socio-cultural history of twentieth-century philosophical thought, providing both introductory and contextual chapters, as well as specific explorations of a variety of topics covering the main themes of the book. Providing important insights of both historical and contemporary significance, this collection is an essential resource for scholars interested in the legacy of the Vienna Circle and its effect on ethics and philosophy of mind.
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Table of contents (11 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Philosophy of Language in LTL
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Philosophy of Mind and Psychology
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Epistemology and Truth
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Back Matter
Editors and Affiliations
About the editor
Adam Tamas Tuboly is a Postdoctoral Fellow at the Institute of Philosophy, Hungarian Academy of Sciences, and a Research Fellow at the PTE-ITD, University of Pécs, Hungary. He has authored numerous papers and edited several volumes on logical empiricism; his research focuses on the philosophy of logical empiricism, logic and modality.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: The Historical and Philosophical Significance of Ayer’s Language, Truth and Logic
Editors: Adam Tamas Tuboly
Series Title: History of Analytic Philosophy
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-50884-5
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan Cham
eBook Packages: Religion and Philosophy, Philosophy and Religion (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2021
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-030-50883-8Published: 24 October 2020
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-030-50886-9Published: 25 October 2021
eBook ISBN: 978-3-030-50884-5Published: 23 October 2020
Series ISSN: 2634-5994
Series E-ISSN: 2634-6001
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XV, 370
Number of Illustrations: 1 b/w illustrations
Topics: History of Philosophy, Analytic Philosophy, Philosophy of Language, Philosophy of Mind, Ethics, Epistemology