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11 gru 2012 · 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.
- Epistemic Closure
The argument from the analysis of knowledge: given the...
- Tropes
1. Historical Background. The father of the contemporary...
- Abilities
1. A taxonomy. What is an ability? On one reading, this...
- Epistemic Closure
J. L. Austin was one of the more influential British philosophers of his time, due to his rigorous thought, extraordinary personality, and innovative philosophical method. According to John Searle, he was both passionately loved and hated by his contemporaries.
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 ...
22 wrz 2014 · Both authors depart self-consciously from the letter of Austin’s texts. McMyler provides a useful attempt charitably to reconstruct Austin’s puzzling comparison, in the essay ‘Other Minds’, of uses of the expression ‘I know’ with uses of the expression ‘I promise’.
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).
John Langshaw Austin (b. 1911–d. 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. Distinctions that Austin drew in his work ...
Speech acts, performative utterance, descriptive fallacy, linguistic phenomenology [2] John Langshaw Austin, OBE, FBA (26 March 1911 – 8 February 1960) was a British philosopher of language and leading proponent of ordinary language philosophy, best known for developing the theory of speech acts. [5] Austin pointed out that we use language to ...
