Subject: Philosophy Book Title: Philosophical Papers
Philosophical Papers
Austin, J. L.,
late White's Professor of Moral Philosophy,
University of Oxford
Urmson, J. O. (Editor)
Warnock, G. J. (Editor)
Third Edition
Print publication date: 1979
Published to Oxford Scholarship Online: November 2003 Print ISBN-13: 978-0-19-283021-0 doi:10.1093/019283021X.001.0001 |
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Abstract:
This text collects all Austin’s published articles plus a new one, ch. 13, hitherto unpublished. The analysis of the ordinary language to clarify philosophical questions is the common element of the 13 papers. Chapters 2 and 4 discuss the nature of knowledge, focusing on ‘performative utterances’. The doctrine of ‘speech acts’, i.e. a statement may be the pragmatic use of language, is discussed in Chs 6 and 10. Chapters 8, 9, and 12 reflect on the problems the language encounters in discussing actions and consider the cases of excuses, accusations, and freedom. The ‘correspondence theory’, i.e. a statement is truth when it corresponds to a fact, is presented in Chs 5 and 6. Finally, Chs 1 and 3 study how a word may have different but related senses considering Aristotle’s view. Chapters 11 and 13 illustrate the meaning of ‘pretending’ and a Plato’s text respectively.
Keywords: accusation, Aristotle, Austin, correspondence theory of truth, excuse, freedom, knowledge, ordinary language, ordinary language philosophy, performative utterance, philosophy of language, pretending, speech act theory, speech acts Table of Contents
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A
     and E      In the Ethics of Aristotle
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Are There A Priori Concepts?
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The Meaning of a Word
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Other Minds
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Truth
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How to Talk
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Unfair to Facts
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A Plea for Excuses
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Ifs and Cans
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Performative Utterances
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Pretending
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Three Ways of Spilling Ink
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The Line and the Cave in Plato's Republic
Index
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