Austinian Themes - Illocution, Action, Knowledge, Truth, and Philosophy

Austinian Themes offers a reconstruction of philosophical views on several themes developed by J. L. Austin. Marina Sbisà draws on both published work as well as unpublished manuscript notes to offer a defence of Austin's speech act theory and views on truth, perception, and philosophical method.

List of contents

• Preface


• Part 1: Illocution


• 1: The Discovery of Illocution


• 2: Discussing Illocution


• Part 2: Action


• 3: Speech as Action


• 4: From Failure to Action


• 5: Further Aspects and Implications of Austin's View of Action


• Part 3: Knowledge


• 6: Knowledge and Assertion


• 7: Perception and Knowledge


• 8: When We Do Not Know


• 9: Knowledge in its Making


• Part 4: Truth


• 10: Getting to Grips with Truth


• 11: Meaning


• 12: Use


• 13: Context


• Part 5: Philosophy


• 14: Linguistic Phenomenology


• 15: Philosophy and the Ordinary


• Conclusions

About the author

Marina Sbisá is Senior Scholar at the University of Trieste. She was awarded her Laurea in Philosophy at the University of Trieste in 1971, and was previously Researcher in Philosophy and Professor in Philosophy of Language at the same university, until retiring in 2018. She has held visiting positions Fuji Women's University, the University of Amiens and CURAPP-CNRS, Sczeczin, and Magdalen College and New College, Oxford. She is a member of the Consultation Board of the International Pragmatics Association and President of the Society for Women in Philosophy Italy. She is the author of Essays on Speech Acts and Other Topics in Pragmatics (OUP, 2023).

Summary

Austinian Themes offers a reconstruction of philosophical views on several themes developed by J. L. Austin. Marina Sbisà draws on both published work as well as unpublished manuscript notes to offer a defence of Austin's speech act theory and views on truth, perception, and philosophical method.

Product details

• Authors: Marina (University of Trieste) Sbisa, Marina Sbisà
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 04.07.2024
• EAN: 9780192844361
• ISBN: 978-0-19-284436-1
• No. of pages: 400
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative linguistics; Non-fiction book > Philosophy, religion > Miscellaneous; Philosophy of Language, PHILOSOPHY / Epistemology, PHILOSOPHY / Language, PHILOSOPHY / Movements / Analytic, Philosophy: epistemology & theory of knowledge, Analytical philosophy & Logical Positivism, Philosophy: epistemology and theory of knowledge, Analytical philosophy and Logical Positivism