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• A. J. Ayer

  British philosopher, the principal English-language exponent of logical positivism in the 1940s–60s. Author of Language, Truth, and Logic (1936) — the foundational English-language statement of Vienna-Circle positivism and verificationism.…

• Gilbert Ryle

  British analytic philosopher (1900–1976), professor of metaphysical philosophy at Oxford (1945–68), editor of Mind. Author of The Concept of Mind (1949), the foundational text of mid-century philosophical behaviourism / dispositionalism, a…

• Ludwig Wittgenstein

  Austrian-British philosopher (1889–1951). His later work — Philosophical Investigations (1953/2003), Remarks on the Philosophy of Psychology (1980, Vols. 1–2) — engages problems of perception, depiction, aspect-seeing, and the relation bet…

• Nelson Goodman

  American philosopher (1906–1998), exponent of analytic aesthetics and constructive nominalism. His Languages of Art: An Approach to a Theory of Symbols (1968; 2nd ed. 1976) develops a denotational/symbolic theory of pictorial representatio…