The Central Questions of Philosophy.

First edition. 8vo. x, 243, [1] pp. Original purple cloth, spine lettered in gilt, dust jacket (some light trivial wear to extremities of jacket, small chip to head of rear panel, otherwise a very good copy indeed). London, Weidenfeld and Nicolson.

A highly accessible work on philosophy by the British analytical philosopher A.J. Ayer, best-known for popularising the logical positivism of the Vienna Circle in the English-speaking world.

'Among the topics which the books covers are those of the nature of philosophy, the varieties of philosophical analysis, the theory of knowledge, the status of physical objects, the relations between body and mind, the character of scientific explanation, theory of probability, the elements of logics, and the claims of theology' (from the dust jacket blurb).

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