Men of Ideas Season 1 Episode 6 Logical Positivism and its Legacy ( Air Date 1978-02-23 ) Genre Documentary, Talk category. Overview "In this program with world-renowned author and professor Bryan Magee, A. J. Ayer, who played a major role in introducing logical positivism to England, explains the movement, its purpose, and its effect on current philosophical trends. Ayer also discusses its founders—members of the Vienna Circle of the 1920s—who based their theories on logic and science.".