Logical Positivism by Ayer Editor (13 results)

Soft cover. Condition: Near Fine. Near Fine trade paperback. 5th printing. 455pp.

Soft cover. Condition: Near Fine. Near Fine trade paperback. 2nd printing. Introduction, bibliography, index, 455pp. Clean text and tight binding.

Trade Paperback. Condition: Good. No Jacket. Second printing (July 1966); glued spine firm and uncreased; pages tight and square; some underlining in two essays (Russell's "Logical Atomism" and Carnap's "The Elimination of Metaphysics through Logical Analysis of Language"); age-toned text pages (455) otherwise clean and unmarked; exterior soiled by some kind of spotting or splattering (to top and side page ends and spine); minor edge wear to covers; previous owners' inscriptions on half title page.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. 1st Edition. Viii, 455 Pp. Blue Cloth Lettered In White. Including 65 Pp Bibliography Of Logical Positivism. Blue Cloth Lettered In White. Third Printing Stated, 1960. This Edition Was The First Publication In English Of Some Of These Papers. Book Very Lightly Used, Rubbing At Corners, But Owner's Signature With Some Marginalia And Underlining Scattered Throughout The Book. Sir Alfred Jules "Freddie" Ayer Fba (1910 - 989), Usually Cited As A. J. Ayer, Was An English Philosopher Known For His Promotion Of Logical Positivism, Particularly In His Books Language, Truth, And Logic (1936) And The Problem Of Knowledge (1956). He Was Educated At Eton College And The University Of Oxford, After Which He Studied The Philosophy Of Logical Positivism At The University Of Vienna. From 1933 To 1940 He Lectured On Philosophy At Christ Church, Oxford. During The Second World War Ayer Was A Special Operations Executive And Mi6 Agent. He Was Grote Professor Of The Philosophy Of Mind And Logic At University College London From 1946 Until 1959, After Which He Returned To Oxford To Become Wykeham Professor Of Logic At New College. He Was President Of The Aristotelian Society From 1951 To 1952 And Knighted In 1970. He Was Known For His Advocacy Of Humanism, And Was The Second President Of The British Humanist Association (Now Known As Humanists Uk). Professor A. J. Ayer Was President Of The Homosexual Law Reform Society For A Time; He Remarked That "As A Notorious Heterosexual I Could Never Be Accused Of Feathering My Own Nest.".

Soft cover. Condition: Good. PB/pub.1959/Gd. condition/453 pages - logical positivism's revolutionary theories on meaning and metaphysics. (L25639z). Book.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. Very Good hardcover in a Good dj (chips and tears to dj, mainly to dj spinal extremities and dj edges and dj corners; a few dj tears taped to verso of dj). "Third Printing, September 1960" stated to copyright page. 455pp. Clean text and tight binding.

paperback. Condition: New. In shrink wrap. Looks like an interesting title!

Hard. Condition: Good. No Jacket. Boards lightly rubbed and edgeworn, clean, lightly bumped at corners and spine ends, uncut closed reading edges, light coloured grey endpapers sunned around edges, intelligent notation marks and underlining to some pages by academic previous owner, text clean and clear to read, binding sound. Size: 8vo.

hardcover. Condition: New. In shrink wrap. Looks like an interesting title!

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. Viii, 455 Pp. Including 65 Pp Bibliography Of Logical Positivism. Blue Cloth Lettered In White. No Indication Of Printing, Copyright 1959. First Publication In English Of Some Of These Papers. Book Very Near Fine, No Marks. Dust Jacket With Slight Usage, Tear At Bottom Of Spine Panel, Minute Losses On Bottom Edges. Sir Alfred Jules "Freddie" Ayer Fba (1910 -1989), Usually Cited As A. J. Ayer, Was An English Philosopher Known For His Promotion Of Logical Positivism, Particularly In His Books Language, Truth, And Logic (1936) And The Problem Of Knowledge (1956). He Was Educated At Eton College And The University Of Oxford, After Which He Studied The Philosophy Of Logical Positivism At The University Of Vienna. From 1933 To 1940 He Lectured On Philosophy At Christ Church, Oxford. During The Second World War Ayer Was A Special Operations Executive And Mi6 Agent. He Was Grote Professor Of The Philosophy Of Mind And Logic At University College London From 1946 Until 1959, After Which He Returned To Oxford To Become Wykeham Professor Of Logic At New College. He Was President Of The Aristotelian Society From 1951 To 1952 And Knighted In 1970. He Was Known For His Advocacy Of Humanism, And Was The Second President Of The British Humanist Association (Now Known As Humanists Uk). Professor A. J. Ayer Was President Of The Homosexual Law Reform Society For A Time; He Remarked That "As A Notorious Heterosexual I Could Never Be Accused Of Feathering My Own Nest.".

Hard Cover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. First American Edition. First edition of this important anthology of 17 essays by members of the Vienna Circle & their associates, many translated into English for the first time. Authors are Bertrand Russell, Moritz Schlick, Rudolf Carnap, Carl G. Hempel, Hans Hahn, Otto Neurath, A. J. Ayer, C. L. Stevenson, Frank P. Ramsay, Gilbert Ryle, Freidrich Waismann. Hardcover in jacket, as pictured; the first edition (first printing), listing no later printings. Light wear to book, corners a bit bumped & rubbed; jacket tanned with light rubbing & some chipping, long tears & chipping along spine creases; ink initials on free endsheet. Text clean; viii, 455 pages; index, extensive (65 page) bibliography. Size: Octavo.

Hardcover. First Edition, First Printing. Condition is Very Good, bound in full blue cloth, with a Very Good dust jacket. Minor edge wear to jacket, some foxing to jacket at rear panel. Occasional markings to text. Important early collection from the Vienna Circle.

First Edition. First edition. xviii, 455 pp. Bound in publisher's blue cloth, spine lettered in silver, red topstain. Fine in Very Good dust jacket, rubbed and lightly worn along edges. Includes many of the first English translations of publications by philosophers in the Vienna Circle of Logical Empiricism.