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1009550 - Portrait by John Hedgecoe - Sir A. J. Ayer in 1962 - he was Wykeham Professor of Logic at Oxford and a most distinguished and influential philosopher, well known for his first book Language, truth and Logic. This picture was taken for a Sunday Times profile.
Sir Alfred Jules Ayer (October 29, 1910 - June 27, 1989), better known as A. J. Ayer (or Freddie by his friends), was a British philosopher known for his promotion of logical positivism, particularly in his books Language, Truth and Logic (1936) and The Problem of Knowledge (1956).
Ayer was the Grote Professor of the Philosophy of Mind and Logic at the University College London from 1946 until 1959, when he became Wykeham Professor of Logic at the University of Oxford. He was knighted in 1970.
©2006 John Hedgecoe/TopFoto
©2006 John Hedgecoe/Topfoto
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