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9780415203890

Ayer-Arg Philosophers

by Foster,John
  • ISBN13:

    9780415203890

  • ISBN10:

    0415203899

  • eBook ISBN(s):

    9781136956867

  • Edition: 1st
  • Format: Hardcover
  • Copyright: 1999-07-27
  • Publisher: Routledge

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Summary

This book is available either individually, or as part of the specially-priced Arguments of the Philosphers Collection.

Table of Contents

Preface ix
Acknowledgments xiii
Bibliographical note xv
Part I Meaning and Verification 1(84)
The criterion of significance
1(5)
The a priori and the analytic
6(5)
The principle of verification
11(16)
Is there a rationale for the verification principle?
27(11)
Empirical atomism
38(6)
Ayer's reductionism
44(21)
The relativity factor
65(8)
Ayer's critique of ethics
73(12)
Part II Knowledge and Scepticism 85(112)
Introduction
85(1)
Ayer's definition of knowledge
86(9)
The truth-reliability thesis
95(7)
Specifying the mode of arrival
102(4)
The reason furnishing thesis
106(10)
The furnishing of reasons
116(9)
The nature of scepticism
125(9)
The four possible solutions
134(10)
Perception
144(15)
The nature of perceptual experience
159(18)
Sense-experience and the physical world
177(14)
Scepticism reconsidered
191(6)
Part III Man and Nature 197(102)
The problem of induction
197(1)
Hume's argument
198(12)
A priori probability
210(5)
Ayer's own position
215(12)
The nomological-explanatory solution
227(12)
Ayer's account of causation
239(15)
The reducibility thesis
254(9)
The unity of the mind
263(20)
Free will
283(16)
Notes 299(6)
Index 305

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