oe ° “LANGUAGE, ® ® K Trutn AND ® @ SS __Locie ° ——"@ 6 FOUNDED LOGICAL POSI- TIVISM — AND MODERN THE CLASSIC TEXT WHICH BRITISH PHILOSOPHYpig PELICAN BOOKS LANGUAGE, TRUTH AND LOGIC Sir Alfted Ayer was born in 910 and educated asa King’s Scholar at Eton and as a classical scholar at Christ Church, Oxford. After spending a short period at the University of Vienna, he became Lecturer in Philesophy at Christ Church in 1933. and Research Student in 1935. In 1940 he joined the Welsh Guards, but was employed for most of the War in Military Intelligence. He returned to Oxford in r945 as Fellow and Dean of Wadham College. From 1946 to 1959 he was Grote Professor of the Philosophy of Mind and Logic in the University of London, He was Wykeham Professor of Logic in the University of Oxford, and was a Fellow of New College, Oxford, from 1959 until 1978. From 1978 to 1983 ‘he was a Fellow of Wolfson College, Oxford. In addition he is a Fellow of the British Academy, an Honorary Fellow of Wadham College and New College, Oxford, and University College. London, an Honorary Student of Christ Church and an Honorary Member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences; he holds an honorary degree from the univer- sities of East Anglia, London and Durham, as well as Trent in Ontario and Bard College in the U.S.A. His principal pub- cations are The Foundations of Eimpiricad Knowledge; Philo- sophical Essays; The Problem of Knowledge (Pelican): The Concept of a Person; The Origins of Pragmatism: Metaphysics und Common Serse; Russell and Moore: The Anelytical ‘Heritage; The Central Questions of Philosophy (Pelican); Proba- biltey ard Evidence, Philosophy in the Twentieth Century: Rus- self; Hume; Freedom and Morality; Ludwig Wittgenstein (Pelican) and Voltaire, He has also published two volumes of autobiography and contributed articles to philosophical and literary journals. Sit Alfred was knighted in 1970 and is a Chevalier de la Légion d’Honneur.LANGUAGE, TRUTH AND LOGIC A. J. AYER PENGUIN BOOKS