Man as a Subject for Science. August Comte Memorial Lecture 6. Delivered on 7 February at The London School of Economics and Political Science.

First edition. 8vo. 26, [2] pp. Original printed wrappers with integral turn-in folds, wire-stitched as issued. A near fine copy. London, The Athlone Press.

Ayer's lecture 'asks why the social sciences have failed to achieve the apparent success of the natural sciences. Ayer’s conclusion is relatively modest: the fact that human action has a social meaning does not rule out the type of determinism that would allow scientific explanation of human behaviour' (The Oxford Handbook of Analytic Philosophy, p. 810).

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