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StorageSiteUCL Special Collections
LevelFile
Reference Number AYER (ROGERS)/4/5
TitleAyer's Essays
Date1944-1984
Date21966
DescriptionPapers, Rogers' research for the biography of photocopies of essays written by A J Ayer and about Ayer, predominantly essays from "The Listener",

Essays from "The Listener" such as:
"'Occams Razor' and Modern Philosophy" (1944)
"Philosophy at Absolute Zero: An Enquiry into the Meaning of Nihilism" (20th century)
"Contemporary British Philosophers" (1946)
"A Philosophers Symposium"
"Views" stating Ayer's own views on politics (1971)
"Untangling the Law" (1984

Photocopy of a letter sent to Ayer from A F Murray from the Foreign Office explaining the governments' stance on the Vietnam War after Ayer signed a telegram with his colleagues (1966)
Extent1 file, 1 letter
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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