J.L. Austin (Author of How to Do Things with Words)

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J.L. Austin

Born

in Lancaster, Lancashire, The United Kingdom

March 28, 1911

Died

February 08, 1960

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Philosophy

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John Langshaw Austin (March 26, 1911 â€� February 8, 1960) was a British philosopher of language, born in Lancaster and educated at Shrewsbury School and Balliol College, Oxford University. Austin is widely associated with the concept of the speech act and the idea that speech is itself a form of action. His work in the 1950s provided both a theoretical outline and the terminology for the modern study of speech acts developed subsequently, for example, by (the Oxford-educated American philosopher) John R. Searle, William P. Alston, FranÃ§ois RÃ©canati, Kent Bach, and Robert M. Harnish.

After serving in MI6 during World War II, Austin became White's Professor of Moral Philosophy at Oxford. He occupies a place in philosophy of language alongside W ...more

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	How to Do Things with Words 3.90 avg rating — 2,535 ratings — published 1955 — 63 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Sense and Sensibilia: Reconstructed from the Manuscript Notes by C.J. Warnock by J.L. Austin, G.J. Warnock (Editor) 4.04 avg rating — 387 ratings — published 1962 — 23 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Philosophical Papers by J.L. Austin, G.J. Warnock (Editor), J.O. Urmson (Editor) 4.31 avg rating — 85 ratings — published 1961 — 34 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Other Minds 4.50 avg rating — 6 ratings — published 1946	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
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“After all we speak of people 'taking refuge' in vagueness -the more precise you are, in general the more likely you are to be wrong, whereas you stand a good chance of not being wrong if you make it vague enough.”
― J.L. Austin, Sense and Sensibilia: Reconstructed from the Manuscript Notes by C.J. Warnock

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“Philosophers often seem to think that they can just 'assign' any meaning whatever to any word; and so no doubt, in an absolutely trivial sense, they can (like Humpty-Dumpty).”
― J.L. Austin, Sense and Sensibilia: Reconstructed from the Manuscript Notes by C.J. Warnock

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“It is not enough to show how clever we are by showing how obscure everything is".”
― J.L. Austin, Ordinary Language

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