Oxford Pragmatism - Ryle and Austins Debt

Oxford Pragmatism uncovers and explores the unrecognized impact of American pragmatism on the Oxford linguistic philosophy that thrived from the 1930s to the 1950s, made famous by Gilbert Ryle and J. L Austin.

List of contents

• Introduction


• PART 1. CLASSICAL PRAGMATISM: ITS FRIENDS AND FOES


• 1: C. S. Peirce: Meaning, Action, Habit


• 2: C. I. Lewis: The Web of Belief


• 3: The Pack Ice of Logical Theory


• 4: Russell's Pragmatism(!)


• 5: Ramsey's Pragmatism


• 6: Wittgenstein Turns His Back on the Tractatus


• 7: Wittgenstein on Grammar and Rule Following


• PART 2. PRAGMATISM AND EARLY OXFORD LINGUISTIC PHILOSOPHY


• 8: F. C. S. Schiller: 'Altogether beyond the Pale'


• 9: Cook Wilson and Prichard


• 10: The Early Ryle: The Rise of Oxford Analytic Philosophy


• 11: A. J. Ayer


• 12: Margaret Macdonald


• PART 3. RYLE: KNOWING HOW


• 13: Tracking Ryle's Shift to Pragmatism


• 14: Knowing How and Knowing That


• 15: Exorcising the Ghost in the Machine


• 16: Rule Following and Laws as Inference Tickets


• PART 4. AUSTIN: DOING THINGS WITH WORDS


• 17: Austin's Linguistic Method


• 18: Unearthing the Influences on Austin


• 19: To Say Something Is to Do Something


• 20: Austin and Pragmatism


• 21: Postscript: The Next Generation

About the author

Cheryl Misak is University Professor and Professor of Philosophy at the University of Toronto. She works on American pragmatism, the history of analytic philosophy, ethics and political philosophy, and the philosophy of medicine.

Product details

• Authors: Cheryl (University Professor and Professor Misak, Misak Cheryl
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Release: 24.10.2025
• EAN: 9780198875888
• ISBN: 978-0-19-887588-8
• No. of pages: 336
• Subjects: Non-fiction book > Philosophy, religion > Philosophy: general, reference works; Philosophy of Language, PHILOSOPHY / Mind & Body, PHILOSOPHY / History & Surveys / Modern, PHILOSOPHY / Epistemology, PHILOSOPHY / Language, Philosophy of Mind, Early 20th century c 1900 to c 1950, Western philosophy from c 1800, Philosophy: epistemology & theory of knowledge, Western Philosophy, From C 1900 -, Philosophy: epistemology and theory of knowledge