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Tables of Contents for Arguments of the Philosophers
Chapter/Section Title
Page #
Page Count
Preface
ix
Acknowledgments
xiii
Bibliographical note
xv
Part I Meaning and Verification
1
84
The criterion of significance
1
5
The a priori and the analytic
6
5
The principle of verification
11
16
Is there a rationale for the verification principle?
27
11
Empirical atomism
38
6
Ayer's reductionism
44
21
The relativity factor
65
8
Ayer's critique of ethics
73
12
Part II Knowledge and Scepticism
85
112
Introduction
85
1
Ayer's definition of knowledge
86
9
The truth-reliability thesis
95
7
Specifying the mode of arrival
102
4
The reason furnishing thesis
106
10
The furnishing of reasons
116
9
The nature of scepticism
125
9
The four possible solutions
134
10
Perception
144
15
The nature of perceptual experience
159
18
Sense-experience and the physical world
177
14
Scepticism reconsidered
191
6
Part III Man and Nature
197
102
The problem of induction
197
1
Hume's argument
198
12
A priori probability
210
5
Ayer's own position
215
12
The nomological-explanatory solution
227
12
Ayer's account of causation
239
15
The reducibility thesis
254
9
The unity of the mind
263
20
Free will
283
16
Notes
299
6
Index
305