Humberstone on Ayer’s Emotivism

A Study of Frege’s Influence on A. J. Ayer’s Theory of Emotivism

No doubt, Gottlob Frege and A. J. Ayer are considered to be among the most prominent contemporary philosophers. Insofar as one of them has revolutionized the linguistic domain while the other has influenced the domain of ethics in a diametrical fashion. Ayer’s theory of emotivism is regarded as one of the most controversial moral theories in the past century. We believe that Frege, as a linguis...

Ayers , S . , Nala , K . & Penny , J . ( 2007 ) . Chronic pelvic pain and quality of life after

Objectives: To examine the long-term relationship between chronic pelvic pain (CPP) and quality of life and see if this is affected by a negative laparoscopy result. Study design: A postal questionnaire survey of CPP and quality of life in 63 women who underwent a diagnostic laparoscopy 12–18 months previously. Results: Women with CPP still reported pain 12–18 months after laparoscopy and a sig...

Ayer and Stevenson’s Epistemological Emotivisms

Ayer and Stevenson advocated ethical emotivisms, non-cognitivist understandings of the meanings of moral terms and functions of moral judgments. I argue that their reasons for ethical emotivisms suggest analogous epistemological emotivisms. Epistemological emotivism importantly undercuts any epistemic support Ayer and Stevenson offered for ethical emotivism. This is because if epistemic emotivi...

A Re-Evaulation of Reciprocal Dealings Under the Federal Antitrust Laws: Spartan Grain & (and) Mill Co. v. Ayers

A cut-free sequent system for two-dimensional modal logic, and why it matters

The two-dimensional modal logic of Davies and Humberstone [3] is an important aid to our understanding the relationship between actuality, necessity and a priori knowability. I show how a cut-free hypersequent calculus for 2d modal logic not only captures the logic precisely, but may be used to address issues in the epistemology and metaphysics of our modal concepts. I will explain how use of o...