Philosophical Papers

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This text collects all AustinÄôs published articles plus a new one, ch. 13, hitherto unpublished.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 Äòperformative utterancesÄô. The doctrine of Äòspeech actsÄô, 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 Äòcorrespondence theoryÄô, 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 AristotleÄôs view. Chapters 11 and 13 illustrate the meaning of ÄòpretendingÄô and a PlatoÄôs text respectively.

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Clarke, D. M. (1986). Philosophical Papers. Philosophical Studies, 31, 480–481. https://doi.org/10.5840/philstudies1986/19873150

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