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...The answer, she thought, lay partly in the “productions of Oxford moral philosophy” — notably in a doctrine, popularised in the 1930s by AJ “Freddie” Ayer, according to which moral or ethical terms such...
...Donald Ayer, a former top Republican justice department official who served with Mr Barr in the George HW Bush administration, told Congress last week that the attorney-general was a danger to the country...
...If the principle is taken seriously, Ayer thought, then most traditional philosophical problems turn out to be empty or pointless. For Midgley, that was precisely the problem with Ayer’s approach....
...Other Grown-Ups by William Miller is a gentle memoir, written through a young boy’s eyes, of growing up in London’s Camden Town in the 1970s and 1980s, the middle child of the writer, director and actor Jonathan...
...Sitting at right angles to me on a banquette the same colour as his suit, the 57-year-old talks freely and broadly, ranging from philosophy (he inherited a writing table from the philosopher AJ Ayer, a family...
...It failed, but Jonathan Wilson’s The Blizzard has since made the idea work in Britain....
...pro-McCain television commercials on local television were focused on issues aimed at the blue-collar, white voters: the Republican candidate’s record as a war veteran, and on Mr Obama’s contacts with Bill Ayers...
...Ayer, the Vienna Circle’s representative in the UK, resonated with hostility towards metaphysics and to tradition in all its forms. By the time the legal philosopher H.L.A....
...Mr Ayers has cashed in some of his share options following Google’s IPO last year and is leaving to start a chain of restaurants in Silicon Valley....
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