This paper analyses the powerful influence of Greek philosophy, theater and culture in the philosophical work and discourse of John L. Austin. The study focuses on two closely connected dimensions: ...the unique recreation that Austin makes of the socratic eiron and his direct inspiration from the rhetorical and theatrical strategies of Platonic dialogues. keywords: John L Austin, Eiron, Platonic dialogues, Philosophy of Ordinary Language, Rhetoric, Theater.
In his late ‘A Plea for Excuses’, John L. Austin suggests labelling his philosophy ‘linguistic phenomenology’. This article examines which idea of phenomenology Austin had in mind when he coined this ...term and what light this sheds on his method. It is argued that the key to answering this question can be found in Merleau‐Ponty’s Phenomenology of Perception, which Austin must have been familiar with. Merleau‐Ponty presents phenomenology in a way Austin could embrace: it is a method, it aims at description and uses reduction, it is a non‐idealistic study of essence and interprets intentionality as ‘operative’. In this light, Austin’s method can be appreciated more fully.
Nowadays philosophy is characterized by such heterogeneous intellectual practices that its very unity and coherence seem endangered. What is especially disconcerting is that most authors manage to ...largely ignore the very existence of methodological positions radically different from their own. Fortunately, there have been exceptions, and the present volume focuses on one of them: the failed debate that took place between John Searle and Jacques Derrida. This book thoroughly analyses that exchange, contextualizing it within the respective philosophical traditions of the two thinkers, with the general aim of turning their dispute into what it was not: a respectful, sensible and fruitful controversy. This episode is thus taken as an opportunity to reflect on the peculiar nature of philosophy as an intellectual practice, and to discuss some of its main themes: language as an instrument for communication, the intentionality of consciousness, and difference as a constitutive element of every text.
Claiming to know is more than making a report about one's epistemic position; one also offers one's assurance to others. What is an assurance? This book unites J. L. Austin's insights about the ...pragmatics of assurance giving and the semantics of knowledge claims into a systematic whole. The central theme in the Austinian view is that of reasonableness: appeal to a reasonable person standard makes the practice of assurance giving possible, and lets our knowledge claims be true despite differences in practical interests and disagreement among speakers and hearers. The Austinian view addresses a number of difficulties for contextualist semantic theories, resolves closure-based skeptical paradoxes, and helps us to tread the line between acknowledging our fallibility and skepticism.
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Austin's Swink Ricks, Christopher
University of Toronto quarterly,
04/1992, Letnik:
61, Številka:
3
Journal Article
Recenzirano
The author of How to do things with Words knew how to do things with such wording as constitutes allusion—as is clear from J.L. Austin's having given the world Sense and Sensibilia. The famous joke, ...which is not without pride and prejudice, is more than a quip because the displaced word sensibility so much enters, not into the equation, but into the opposite of equation. For a start, the register of 'sensibilia' is deliciously registered as cold-shouldering the warm thought of 'sensibility.'
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DOBA, IZUM, KILJ, NUK, PILJ, PNG, SAZU, SIK, UILJ, UKNU, UL, UM, UPUK
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