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Season 1 Episode
- Season 1 An Introduction to Philosophy
- Season 1 Marxist Philosophy
- Season 1 Marcuse and the Frankfurt School
- Season 1 Martin Heidegger and Modern Existentialism
- Season 1 The Two Philosophies of Wittgenstein
- Season 1 Logical Positivism and its Legacy
- Season 1 The Spell of Linguistic Philosophy
- Season 1 Moral Philosophy
- Season 1 The Ideas of Quine
- Season 1 The Philosophy of Language
- Season 1 The Ideas of Chomsky
- Season 1 The Philosophy of Science
- Season 1 Philosophy and Politics
- Season 1 Philosophy and Literature
- Season 1 Philosophy: The Social Context
Men of Ideas - Season 1 Episode 6 Logical Positivism and its Legacy
8.50 48 minutes In this program with world-renowned author and professor Bryan Magee, A. J. Ayer, who played a major role in introducing logical positivism to England, explains the movement, its purpose, and its effect on current philosophical trends. Ayer also discusses its founders—members of the Vienna Circle of the 1920s—who based their theories on logic and science.
