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John Langshaw Austin

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born

March 28, 1911 in Lancaster, Lancashire, The United Kingdom

died

February 08, 1960

gender

male

website

http://www.epistemelinks.com/Main/Philosophers....

genre

Philosophy

influences

Aristotle, G.E. Moore, Bertrand Russell, Gilbert Ryle

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John Langshaw Austin (March 26, 1911 – 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, François Récanati, 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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Average rating: 3.96 · 639 ratings · 62 reviews · 4 distinct works

	How to Do Things with Words 3.82 avg rating — 362 ratings — published 1955 — 12 editions	My rating:
	Sense and Sensibilia by John Langshaw Austin, Geoffrey J. Warnock (Editor) 4.02 avg rating — 91 ratings — published 1962 — 2 editions	My rating:
	Philosophical Papers by John Langshaw Austin, Geoffrey J. Warnock (Editor), James O. Urmson (Editor) 4.30 avg rating — 33 ratings — 4 editions	My rating:
	The Foundations of Arithmetic: A Logico-Mathematical Enquiry into the Concept of Number by Gottlob Frege, John Langshaw Austin (Translator), J. L. Austin (Translation) 4.10 avg rating — 150 ratings — published 1884 — 6 editions	My rating:

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