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MS. 5985/37

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Title

Manuscripts, typescripts and notes

Shelfmark

MS. 5985/37

Summary

Folder 1: Typescripts of [unpublished] pieces:

Abstract (starting: 'Le ébat perpetuel au sujet du libre arbitre et le déterminisme...'), with manuscript version, n.d.

Background to Racial Prejudice, n.d.

Comments on Professor William's "Knowledge and Reason", with manuscript draft, n.d.

Essentialism, n.d.

Foreword starting 'I am very happy to have been given the opportunity to write a foreword to this collection of essays in honour of my friend Professor Raymond Klibanski.', with corrections, n.d.

La Filosofia Britanica Contemporanea, n.d.

Language and Politics, with manuscript, n.d.

La Philosophie Analytique, n.d.

Morals without Religion, with manuscript, n.d.

Reader's Questions, with manuscript, n.d.

Réflexions sur le Pragmatisme, n.d.

Reminiscences of Rudolf Carnap, with manuscript, n.d.

Where Should I Send My Son to School?, n.d.

Untitled typescript, starting 'I agree with Taylor that "one of the key concepts of phenomenology is that of 'intentionality'"...', n.d.

Unidentified typescripts and fragments

Folder 2: Manuscripts of [unpublished] pieces:

C. The Construction of the Physical World, n.d.

Existentialism and Humanism, n.d.

Future of [Socialism], n.d.

Habits and Dispositions, n.d.

Philosophy, 2 versions, n.d.

The Nature of Philosophical Enquiry, n.d.

Political Philosophy, n.d.

Preface (Starting 'In the ordinary way, I see little use in Prefaces.), n.d.

The Privacy of Sensations, n.d.

Probability and Verification, n.d.

Proper [Names], n.d.

Sense and Sensibilia, n.d.

Sir Victor Pritchett, n.d.

Truth, including some notes on the subject, n.d.

The Uses of Moral Philosophy, n.d.

Verification and Induction, n.d.

What is a Fact?

Lecture starting 'Last week I tried to show you that Armstrong's theory...', annotated 'Prof A.J. Ayer, New College, Oxford', n.d.

Folder 3: Biographical notes, and (drafts of) autobiographical pieces, including 'My Family and My Childhood', 'Philosophical Autobiography', 'My Intellectual development', 'Travel', 'On Autobiography, n.d.'; (biographical) notes on Bertrand Russell, n.d.; notes for speeches, c.1977-1984.

Date

1977-1984; n.d.

Language

English

Physical extent

1 box (3 folders)

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Archive of Alfred Jules Ayer

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