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StorageSiteUCL Special Collections
LevelFile
Reference Number AYER (ROGERS)/4/1
TitleEssays, Cuttings, Extracts and Reviews, c1950s-1960s
Date1957-1996
DescriptionPapers, photocopies of newspaper and journal articles, book extracts and reviews, written by A J Ayer or about Ayer in various publications (1957-1996) and a letter from Anthony Steel, regarding Campaign Against Race Discrimination in Sports, (1959); collected by Ben Rogers.

The titles of the copies of printed journal articles include:
"The Critical Notice, P F Strawson: Individuals", (1959)
"Philosophy and Language', Inaugural Lecture" by A J Ayer (Nov 1960)
"On the Probability of Particular Events" (1961)
"Reflections on Existentialism", Journal of the Modern Language Association (a journal) (1967)
"On what there Is" (1969)
"Wittgenstein on Certainty" (1973)
"Knowledge Belief and Evidence" (20th century)

The titles of the photocopied newspaper articles include
"Ludwig Wittgenstein: Remarks on the Foundations of Mathematics", The Spectator (1957)
"The New Left", The Spectator (1960)
"Cock-a-Double-Do", New Statesman (1961)
"Humanism and Reform", Encounter (1966)
"An Appraisal of Bertrand Russell's Philosophy" (1967)
"The Fear and Guilt Behind Prejudice" (1968)
Newspaper cuttings, "Rebels and Morals" series, Evening Standard (1968)
"The Power of Positivism" (1969)
"Whose Idea is it Anyway, Philosophers Feud" (1996)
Extent1 file, 39 articles, 10 journals, 1 letter, 1 press cutting
AccessStatusOpen
AccessConditionsThe papers are available subject to the usual conditions of access to Archives and Manuscripts material, after the completion of a Reader's Undertaking.
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