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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.
J. L. Austin's work on language and its functions has been the subject of considerable controversy. Although some philosophers find his classi-fications and distinctions illuminating, others are bored and not a little puzzled concerning their philosophical worth. For example, M. Black finds in Austin's studies only limited value, while N ...
Hence the title of one of his best-known works, How to Do Things with Words (1955). Austin, in providing his theory of speech acts, makes a significant challenge to the philosophy of language, far beyond merely elucidating a class of morphological sentence forms that function to do what they name.
J. L. (John Langshaw) Austin dominated philosophy in Oxford from the end of the Second World War until death ended his tenure as White’s Professor of Moral Philosophy in 1960. His work on speech acts has had a significant and lasting impact on the wider philosophical world.
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 ...
Austin is best known for two major contributions to contemporary philosophy: first, his ‘linguistic phenomenology’, a peculiar method of philosophical analysis of the concepts and ways of expression of everyday language; and second, speech act theory, the idea that every use of language carries a performative dimension (in the well-known slogan,...
20 wrz 2024 · These elements alone render the book indispensable to any philosopher or historian interested in Austin’s life, his times and, of course, his philosophical themes – among other things, perception, the theory of ‘speech acts’ and the role of language in philosophy.
