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John Langshaw Austin (ur. 28 marca 1911 w Lancaster, zm. 8 lutego 1960 w Oksfordzie) – brytyjski filozof analityczny. Austin skończył studia na Uniwersytecie Oksfordzkim, gdzie został później wykładowcą i profesorem (od 1952).
J. L. Austin was a British philosopher of language and a leading proponent of ordinary language philosophy. He developed the theory of speech acts, which challenges the metaphysics of language that posits denotative, propositional assertion as the essence of language and meaning.
11 gru 2012 · John Langshaw Austin. John Langshaw Austin (1911–1960) was White’s Professor of Moral Philosophy at the University of Oxford. He made a number of contributions in various areas of philosophy, including important work on knowledge, perception, action, freedom, truth, language, and the use of language in speech acts.
John Austin (1911-1960) was a British philosopher who developed a rigorous method of philosophical analysis based on the concepts and ways of expression of everyday language. He is best known for his speech act theory, which shows how every use of language has a performative dimension, and for his contributions to epistemology and philosophy of action.
Learn about J.L. Austin, a British philosopher who analyzed human thought through ordinary language. Find out his contributions, influences, and publications in the fields of linguistics and philosophy.
3 lip 2007 · In How to Do Things with Words, J.L. Austin for instance writes, …in recent years, many things which would once have been accepted without question as ‘statements’ by both philosophers and grammarians have been scrutinized with new care…
1 gru 2011 · This is the first collection of essays on J. L. Austin’s philosophy published by a major Anglophone press in nearly forty years. Rejecting the standard picture of him as an effectively obsolete “doyen of ordinary language philosophy”, the contributors show how Austin’s work can be brought to bear on issues that are on the top of today ...
