A cricket game, a train ticket and a vacuum to be filled: Ayer’s logical positivism as a focal point for post-war British cultural struggles

Tandf: British Journal for the History of Philosophy 28 (6):1134-1150 (2020)
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In 1948, A.J. Ayer was attacked on the pages of The New Statesman and Nation magazine where it was claimed that his views were partly responsible for increasingly Fascist attitudes at Oxford. Ayer...

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