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  2. A. J. Ayer - Wikipedia

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    Ayer was born in St John's Wood, in north west London, to Jules Louis Cyprien Ayer and Reine (née Citroen), wealthy parents from continental Europe.His mother was from the Dutch-Jewish family that founded the Citroën car company in France; his father was a Swiss Calvinist financier who worked for the Rothschild family, including for their bank and as secretary to Alfred Rothschild.

  3. A. J. Baker - Wikipedia

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    Allan James "Jim" Baker (22 July 1922 – 3 March 2017), usually cited as A. J. Baker, was an Australian philosopher who was best known for having systematised the realist philosophy of John Anderson. [1] [2] He studied under Anderson at Sydney University and had taught philosophy in Scotland, New Zealand, the United States, and Australia.

  4. J. Budziszewski - Wikipedia

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    J. Budziszewski (born 1952) is an American philosopher and professor of government and philosophy at the University of Texas at Austin, where he has taught since 1981. He specializes in ethics, political philosophy and the interaction of these two fields with religion and theology.

  5. J. L. Austin - Wikipedia

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    (In arguing for "naive realism", Putnam invokes Austin's handling of sense-data theories and their reliance on arguments from perceptual illusion in Sense and Sensibilia, which Putnam calls "one of the most unjustly neglected classics of analytics philosophy"). Rowe, M. W. (2023), J.L. Austin: Philosopher and D-Day Intelligence Officer. Oxford ...

  6. Mortimer J. Adler - Wikipedia

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    Adler, Mortimer J. (1993). The Four Dimensions of Philosophy: Metaphysical, Moral, Objective, Categorical. Macmillan. ISBN 0-02-500574-X. Art, the Arts, and the Great Ideas (1994) Philosophical Dictionary: 125 Key Terms for the Philosopher's Lexicon, Touchstone, 1995. How to Think About The Great Ideas (2000) ISBN 0-8126-9412-0

  7. Emotivism - Wikipedia

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    Logical methods involve efforts to show inconsistencies between a person's fundamental attitudes and their particular moral beliefs. For example, someone who says "Edward is a good person" who has previously said "Edward is a thief" and "No thieves are good people" is guilty of inconsistency until he retracts one of his statements.

  8. Amalie J. Hathaway - Wikipedia

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    Hathaway has been described as a "new lost woman philosopher", having been barely given any attention by the "feminist philosophical recovery movement". [5] She has also been described as an unrecognised contributor to the German pessimism controversy. [4]

  9. Archie J. Bahm - Wikipedia

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    Bahm served as Acting Chair of the University of New Mexico's Department of Philosophy from 1954 to 1955 and again from 1964 to 1965. He was a member of numerous committees to support and promote the exchange of philosophical ideas and organized the Albuquerque Chapter of the Southwestern Regional American Humanist Association in 1954.