First edition. 8vo. 26, [2] pp. Original printed wrappers with integral turn-in folds, wire-stitched as issued. A near fine copy. London, The Athlone Press, 1964.
Ayer’s lecture ‘asks why the social sciences have failed to achieve the apparent success of the natural sciences. Ayer’s conclusion is relatively modest: the fact that human action has a social meaning does not rule out the type of determinism that would allow scientific explanation of human behaviour’ (The Oxford Handbook of Analytic Philosophy, p. 810).
