Sir Alfred Ayer

Sometime in the 1970s I was at a grand interdisciplinary conference in Florence, “Livelli di Realtà/Levels of Reality”.  This was a cultural event, and the organizer, Massimo Piattelli Palmarini — who, as he said to me later, was a ‘great snob’ — had invited luminaries from philosophy, psychology, physics, sociology. Even literature, for Italo Calvino hadContinue reading “Sir Alfred Ayer”