A. J. Ayer
Gender: Male
Religion: Atheist
Race or Ethnicity: White
Sexual orientation: Straight
Occupation: Philosopher
Father: Jules Louis Cyprien Ayer (b. 1867)
Mother: Reine (b. in Antwerp)
Wife: Dee Wells
Wife: Vanessa Salmon ("Vanessa Lawson")
High School: Eton College
University: BA, Christ Church, Oxford University (1932)
University: MA, Christ Church, Oxford University (1936)
Professor: University College London (1946-59)
Professor: Oxford University (1959-78)
Rationalist Press Association Honorary Associate (1947-)
British Humanist Association President (1965-70)
Knighthood 1970
Author of books:
Language, Truth and Logic (1936)
The Foundations of Empirical Knowledge (1940)
Philosophical Essays (1954)
The Problem of Knowledge (1956)
The Concept of a Person and other Essays (1963)
The Origins of Pragmatism (1968)
Metaphysics and Common Sense (1969)
Bertrand Russell and G. E. Moore: The Analytical Heritage (1971)
Probability and Evidence (1972)
Bertrand Russell (1972)
The Central Questions of Philosophy (1973)
Part of My Life (1977, memoir)
Hume (1980)
Philosophy in the Twentieth Century (1982)
Freedom and Morality and Other Essays (1984)
More of My Life (1984, memoir)
Ludwig Wittgenstein (1986)
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