![]() ![]() In it he attacks what was at his time a predominant account in philosophy, namely, the view that the chief business of sentences is to state facts, and thus to be true or false. How to Do Things With Words is perhaps Austin's most influential work. ![]() He was president of the Aristotelian Society from 1956 to 1957. His main influence, he said, was the exact and exacting common-sense philosophy of G. Unlike many ordinary language philosophers, however, Austin disavowed any overt indebtedness to Wittgenstein's later philosophy. He occupies a place in philosophy of language alongside Wittgenstein in staunchly advocating the examination of the way words are used in order to elucidate meaning. ![]() Searle and his followers.Īfter serving in MI6 during World War II, Austin became White's Professor of Moral Philosophy at Oxford. His work in the 1950s provided the early underpinnings for the modern theory of speech acts developed subsequently by the Oxford-educated American philosopher John R. Austin is widely associated with the concept of the speech act and the idea that speech is itself a form of action. He was born in Lancaster, Lancashire and educated at Balliol College, Oxford. John Langshaw Austin (Ma– February 8, 1960) was a philosopher of language, who developed much of the current theory and terminology of speech acts. ![]() Philosophy of language, Philosophy of mind, Ethics, Ordinary language philosophy School/tradition: Linguistic philosophy, Analytic philosophy ![]()
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