Men of Ideas
Season 1, Episode 6: Logical Positivism and its Legacy
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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.
All Episodes - Season 1
Episode 1
An Introduction to Philosophy
Episode 2
Marxist Philosophy
Episode 3
Marcuse and the Frankfurt School
Episode 4
Martin Heidegger and Modern Existentialism
Episode 5
The Two Philosophies of Wittgenstein
Episode 6
Logical Positivism and its Legacy
Episode 7
The Spell of Linguistic Philosophy
Episode 8
Moral Philosophy
Episode 9
The Ideas of Quine
Episode 10
The Philosophy of Language
Episode 11
The Ideas of Chomsky
Episode 12
The Philosophy of Science
Episode 13
Philosophy and Politics
Episode 14
Philosophy and Literature
Episode 15
Philosophy: The Social Context