The Resume

(October 29, 1910-June 27, 1989)
Full name is Sir Alfred Jules Ayer
Wrote 'Language, Truth and Logic,' 'Hume,' 'Philosophy in the Twentieth Century' and 'Logical Positivism'

Why he might be annoying:

He was the most famous proponent of logical positivism and held that all religious and metaphysical statements are meaningless.
He had a near death experience.
Robert Jackson, the Secretary of State for Higher Education under Margaret Thatcher, accused him of having 'enormously narrowed the range of philosophical inquiry.'

Why he might not be annoying:

He was a student of Gilbert Ryle's.
He graduated from Oxford.
Although he had a near death experience, he did not believe it to be a true account of what he was going through, but rather the natural result of his brain dying.
He accused continental philosophy of being 'unintelligible' and 'preposterous.'
He was knighted in 1970.
He was a vocal advocate of homosexual rights and the secularization of the government.
He campaigned for the Labour Party.

Credit: Nihilism Cynicism Sarcasm Orgasm

Featured in the following Annoying Collections:

• Alphabet Names
• Celebrity Tottenham Hotspur Fans
• Fag Stags [Men Loved by Gay Men]
• I am Known by My Initials
• I Attended Eton
• I Attended Oxford
• I Died in 1989 (Ranked: 78)
• I Had a Near Death Experience
• Knights
• Nihilism Cynicism Sarcasm Orgasm's Profiles [Series 2]
• Philosophers: 20th Century [1900-2000]
• Profiles 7751-8000 (Ranked: 7958)
• UK Guardian's Simon Critchley's Top 10 Philosophers' Deaths (Ranked: 9)
• We Died on the Same Day (Ranked: 19890627)

Year In Review:

In 2023, Out of 6 Votes: 16.67% Annoying
In 2022, Out of 3 Votes: 0% Annoying
In 2021, Out of 11 Votes: 72.73% Annoying
In 2020, Out of 2 Votes: 100% Annoying
In 2019, Out of 2 Votes: 50.0% Annoying
In 2018, Out of 3 Votes: 33.33% Annoying
In 2017, Out of 5 Votes: 60.0% Annoying
In 2016, Out of 1 Votes: 0% Annoying
In 2015, Out of 4 Votes: 25.00% Annoying
In 2014, Out of 11 Votes: 63.64% Annoying
In 2013, Out of 8 Votes: 50.0% Annoying
In 2012, Out of 9 Votes: 100% Annoying
In 2011, Out of 9 Votes: 44.44% Annoying
In 2010, Out of 26 Votes: 61.54% Annoying
In 2009, Out of 32 Votes: 50.0% Annoying
In 2008, Out of 31 Votes: 54.84% Annoying
In 2007, Out of 60 Votes: 73.33% Annoying
In 2006, Out of 105 Votes: 72.38% Annoying
In 2005, Out of 163 Votes: 63.80% Annoying
In 2004, Out of 227 Votes: 47.58% Annoying
In 2003, Out of 248 Votes: 60.48% Annoying