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532: 438:, an elegant new quarterly edited by an ex-communist, Humphrey Slater. The first edition featured an essay on 'Deistic Fallacies', and later numbers included an article on free will, 'Freedom and Necessity' - one of Ayer's most frequently cited and reprinted papers - and another on 'The Claims of Philosophy', first delivered as a lecture late in 1946 to an inaugural 503:
that 'death makes me a prey to others', and felt this was inevitably flawed in dramatic representation, since Garcin is shown as conscious in death, therefore as an object for himself as well as for others, hence as 'not really dead'. Ayer concedes that this paradox is dramatically necessary, but,
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conference. Diverse as they are in subject, all these articles revolve around the big moral questions - the purposes of philosophy, the nature of freedom, the meaning of life - and in their audience and approach are quite different from anything Ayer had written before the war. Like French
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Meanwhile, back 'overseas', the doyen of logical positivism, A.J. Ayer, had published a not unfriendly critique of the text. He took the play to be an illustration of the theory expounded in
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was a British "Magazine of Philosophy, Psychology, and Aesthetics" published between 1945 and 1947, which aimed to be a general or non-specialist intellectual periodical.
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existentialism, they represented a response to a thirst among the war's survivors for an articulation of the most basic principles of the new world order.
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Orwell contributed five essays over the life of the magazine and Russell and Ayer contributed four each. Other contributors included
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The Collected Essays, Journalism and Letters of George Orwell Volume 4: In Front of Your Nose (1945-1950)
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The Collected Essays, Journalism and Letters of George Orwell Volume 3: As I Please (1943-1945)
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Perception and identity : essays presented to A.J. Ayer, with his replies to them
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predictably, is concerned about its illogicality, concluding with a quotation from
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This British magazine or academic journal–related article is a
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Art-Historical Notes: "Where are the Hirsts of the 1930s now?"
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Politics vs. Literature: An Examination of Gulliver's Travels
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Orwell also contributed an (unsigned) editorial to (
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Index

Humphrey Slater
Henry Miller
Bertrand Russell
A. J. Ayer
Stephen Spender
George Orwell
C. E. M. Joad
Rupert Crawshay-Williams
Philip Toynbee
Hugh Trevor-Roper
Dylan Thomas
Diana Witherby
Stuart Hampshire
Geoffrey Grigson
Ben Nicholson
Adrian Stokes
J. D. Bernal
C. H. Waddington
John Wisdom
Notes on Nationalism
The Prevention of Literature
Second Thoughts on James Burnham
Politics vs. Literature: An Examination of Gulliver's Travels
Lear, Tolstoy and the Fool
J.-P. Sartre
Philosophical Essays
Reflections on Our Age
Bibliography of George Orwell

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