Tag: "logical positivism"

The Parable of the Atheist and the Logical Positivist

Michael Langford drops in on the afterlife for an argument about personal identity.
[Issue 132 :: June/July 2019 :: Short Story]

The Language Animal by Charles Taylor

Roger Caldwell looks at Charles Taylor’s views of language.
[Issue 125 :: April/May 2018 :: Books]

Wittgenstein,Tolstoy and the Folly of Logical Positivism

Stuart Greenstreet explains how analytical philosophy got into a mess.
[Issue 103 :: July/August 2014 :: The Tractatus]

Sir Karl Popper (1902-1994)

Alistair MacFarlane observes the logic of Karl Popper’s discoveries.
[Issue 88 :: January/February 2012 :: Brief Lives]

The Bottle

Peter Colbourne tells us a tale of lost philosophers.
[Issue 88 :: January/February 2012 :: Fiction]

A.J. Ayer (1910-1989)

Alistair MacFarlane considers the populariser of Logical Positivism.
[Issue 85 :: July/August 2011 :: Articles]

A Sceptic’s Guide To Atheism by Peter S. Williams

Luke Pollard finds nothing new about the New Atheists.
[Issue 74 :: July/August 2009 :: Books]

Warren Allen Smith took at trip to Times Square to see a musical whodunnit about philosophical acrobats debating the existence of God. What else could it be but Jumpers by the profound and playful Tom Stoppard.
[Issue 49 :: January/February 2005 :: Theatre]

A Brief History of… Philosophy of Science

Rick Lewis describes what philosophers have thought about science over the last century and a half.
[Issue 38 :: October/November 2002 :: The Impact of Science]

A.J. Ayer: A Life by Ben Rogers

Ralph Blumenau reviews a new biography of A.J. Ayer, the angry young man who tried to abolish metaphysics.
[Issue 26 :: April/May 2000 :: Books]

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