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The late J.L. Austin's influence on contemporary philosophy was substantial during his lifetime, and has grown greatly since his death in 1960. This third edition of Philosophical Papers, the first edition of which was published in 1961, includes all of Austin's published papers (except "Performatif-Constatif") as well as a new essay entitled "The Line and the Cave in Plato's Republic", which has been reconstructed from Austin's notes.
- Sales Rank: #3152659 in Books
- Published on: 1970-10
- Original language: English
- Number of items: 1
- Binding: Hardcover
- 302 pages
About the Author
J. O. Urmson is Emeritus Professor of Philosophy at Stanford University and Emeritus Fellow of Corpus Christi College, Oxford.
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12 of 14 people found the following review helpful.
Classic work of 'linguistic analysis' school of philosophy.
By A Customer
After Wittgenstein's _Philosophical Investigations_ itself, no work more clearly demonstrates the power of using language analysis to begin to clarify traditional questions of philosophy.
Although Austin was not the originator of these techniques, he towered over everyone else in the field, setting new standards of subtelty and venturing into entirely new areas of inquiry. His papers, the most important of which are collected in this volume, are brilliant, witty and powerfully intellectual. For the general reader, they will show a new way of thinking about questions of philosophy.
6 of 7 people found the following review helpful.
DETERMINISM, EUDAIMONIA AND URSANEIVLS
By DAVID BRYSON
John Austin, Professor of moral philosophy at Oxford, died in 1960 before reaching age 50. He was possibly one of the most influential abstract thinkers who ever thought an abstraction, but we have to gain our own knowledge of this brilliant mind from collections of his lectures and his articles in philosophical journals. The Philosophical Papers is a miscellaneous assemblage of his writings on a number of topics, and it has grown by several items since I last and first read it 45 years ago. The articles are of differing degrees of complexity, but Austin is never obscure and he has a delightful turn of phrase. Two pieces here partly address a couple of my own favourite conundrums - free will vs determinism is touched on in Ifs and Cans, and the first piece deals with a number of the questions that bother me in Aristotle's supposed identification of `happiness' as being the `end' or main objective of life. I would also have loved to set an exam question inviting candidates to discuss the proposition on p34 `myths are invented about our "contemplation" of ursaneivls' for the sake of seeing someone set about it; but alas this unfamiliar term is only a printer's pie for `universals'.
Whether or not Austin pronounced any doctrines, he certainly established a method. The great philosophers have in general tried to create or identify some over-arching theoretical scheme for organising human thought, and in general they finish up like mechanics with several parts left over after supposedly completing their work on the car - it never seems to fit exactly. You can read Austin's own basic manifesto here in A Plea for Excuses, the most relaxed and informal item in this collection. Human language, says he, has had time to make any distinctions humanity has yet thought worth making - `words are our tools and, as a minimum, we should use clean tools.' This and the chapters following (excluding the one on Plato) are probably the easiest to follow as examples of his approach in action, and the earlier How to Talk-Some Simple Ways is actually the hardest. It all depends on an acute ear for language and meaning, but the least of us ought to be able to get the hang of Austin's approach, observing in passing the ruins of more traditional theories. In the Plea for Excuses he toys with the idea of cataloguing our language systematically, but I doubt he really believed that this would do the work of his own presence of mind and accuracy of aim, the very qualities that Housman praised in Bentley's genius for the sister science of textual criticism.
Specious assumptions are dispersed like chaff, e.g. does a statement have to be either true or false? Even if we throw in intermediate gradations such as `likely', 'apparent', `misleading' etc, can we deal with `A cat sat on a mat' on this basis? This is an example of an elementary sentence for infants, and to ask whether it's `true' is nonsensical - it's committing what Ryle calls the category-error, and the same goes regarding any work of fiction. Ifs and Cans is not basically concerned with free will and determinism, but it contains enough about them to whet my appetite. Austin claims that determinism has not been properly defined, but I take it to mean that anything that happens, including our own actions, could not have happened otherwise, and that it is all the result of an incalculably large network of causes and effects. I have seen one scientist try to get us off this hook by appealing to a randomness in the behaviour of subatomic particles, but I can't see that that helps. Either we are glorified machines or we are not, and if we are there can, logically, be no validity in a guilty verdict in a trial as the prisoner's action was predetermined. Austin clearly doubts determinism, and he makes the valuable point that `free' as in `free will' is a device for discounting alternative possibilities, as `real' also is. Free will as opposed to what kind of will? The difficulty is in `will' not in `free' -- what is it? Can thoughts and associated concepts such as choices and decisions be classified as `events' like the weather, subject to causes? If detective D decides that suspect S1 is guilty of the crime because S1's eyes are too close together we can `account for' or `explain' D's view by his temperament or his upbringing or his experience of life and so on, but do any of these `cause' his opinion? It makes good sense to say that D later `forces himself' to take account of the evidence that the guilty party is really suspect S2 and changes his mind against his natural inclination. This is my own idea of `will' in action, but can evidence (which is not an `event' anyhow) be said to have `caused' the change?
Can you make yourself believe that Aristotle said that happiness is the main objective in life and that it is defined as `a sort of activity of the spirit in accordance with complete virtue'? Neither can I, but a lot of his translators and commentators can. Happiness is something that Aristotle or any of us take when we can get it, and it is no sort of activity. Richard Robinson (in Definition) says briskly that Aristotle is really defining the means towards happiness, but I believe Aristotle meant what he said, and I don't believe he said `happiness'. To his credit Austin has some doubts about this standard translation. He tries `success', but on balance makes do with `happiness' after all. I'll try `wellbeing'. This makes sense as `a sort of activity', sc the non-intellectual aspect of life, well encapsulated in the Greek `eudaimonia' or `enjoying the favour of the gods' - the Greek for `happy' is `olbios' not `eudaimon'. Take `eu prattein' in its sense of `faring well' rather than `behaving well', and take this `virtue' as `finest characteristic' (as in `the virtue of soya is in its nutritional properties not in its flavour of which there is none') and it all seems to make better sense.
I find it all wonderful and liberating to the mind and spirit. This does not involve agreeing with everything, indeed Austin often marks his thoughts as tentative or provisional. It is all about how to think not what to think, and Austin's own beautiful aphorism makes a good summing-up for the activities of the mind `Neither a be-all nor an end-all be.'
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Review of Austin's 'Philosophical Papers'
By Ryan Mease
This is a simple and straightforward presentation of several papers by J.L. Austin. The anthology covers the full range of his career, including a few essays on topics in ancient philosophy. The editors add very little to the work, which offers a 'clean' look at the work, but it wouldn't hurt to offer some sort of introduction.
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