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- Born
- 1911
- Died
- 1960
- Works
- 24
Top works
- Ensaios
- Sense and Sensibilia Reconstructed By G.J. Warnock from the Manuscript Notes
- Ekh ʻośim devarim ʻim milim
- The Works of J. L. Austin
- Como Hacer Cosas Con Palabras
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Key facts
- Born
- John Langshaw Austin , 26 March 1911, Lancaster , England
- Died
- 8 February 1960 (1960-02-08) (aged 48), Oxford , England
- Alma mater
- Balliol College, Oxford
- Academic advisors
- H. H. Joachim , H. A. Prichard
- Era
- 20th-century philosophy
- Region
- Western philosophy
- School
- Analytic , Ordinary language philosophy , Correspondence theory of truth
- Institutions
- Magdalen College, Oxford
- Doctoral students
- John Searle
- Notable students
- Jonathan Bennett
- Main interests
- Philosophy of language , philosophy of mind , ethics , philosophy of perception
- Notable ideas
- Speech acts , performative utterance , descriptive fallacy , linguistic phenomenology
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- human
- Given name
- John
- Gender
- male
- Citizenship
- United Kingdom
- Place of birth
- Lancaster
- Place of death
- Oxford
- Occupation
- university teacher
- Educated at
- Shrewsbury School
- Employer
- University of Oxford
- Languages spoken
- English language
- Field of work
- linguistics
- Movement
- analytic philosophy
- Conflict
- World War II
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- date of death
- 1960-02-08
- date of birth
- 1911-03-26
- influenced by
- Aristotle
- cause of death
- lung cancer
- writing language
- English language
- name in native language
- John Langshaw Austin
- different from
- John Austin
- manner of death
- natural causes
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Encyclopedic overview
John Langshaw Austin (26 March 1911 – 8 February 1960) was an English philosopher of language and leading proponent of ordinary language philosophy, best known for developing the theory of speech acts.
Austin pointed out that we use language to do things as well as to assert things, and that the utterance of a statement like "I promise to do so-and-so" is best understood as doing something—here, making a promise—rather than making an assertion about anything; hence the title of one of his best-known works, How to Do Things with Words (1955).
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “John Langshaw Austin” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.