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Longworth, Guy (2018) The ordinary and the experimental : Cook Wilson and Austin on method in philosophy. British Journal for the History of Philosophy, 26 (5). pp. 939-960. doi:10.1080/09608788.2017.1413539 ISSN 0960-8788.
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Official URL: http://doi.org/10.1080/09608788.2017.1413539
Abstract
To what extent was ordinary language philosophy a precursor to experimental philosophy? Since the conditions on pursuit of either project are at best unclear, and at worst protean, the general question is hard to address. I focus instead on particular cases, seeking to uncover some central aspects of J. L. Austin’s and John Cook Wilson’s ordinary language based approach to philosophical method. I make a start at addressing three questions. First, what distinguishes their approach from other more traditional approaches? Second, is their approach a form of experimental philosophy? Third, given their aims, should it have been? I offer the following preliminary answers. First, their approach distinctively emphasizes attention to what we should say when. Second, their approach is closer to contemporary experimental mathematics than it is to some prominent forms of contemporary experimental philosophy. Third, some purported grounds for pursuing their aims by way of surveying what individual speakers would say when are not compelling.
Item Type: | Journal Article | ||||||||
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Subjects: | B Philosophy. Psychology. Religion > B Philosophy (General) P Language and Literature > P Philology. Linguistics |
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Divisions: | Faculty of Social Sciences > Philosophy | ||||||||
Library of Congress Subject Headings (LCSH): | Austin, J. L. (John Langshaw), 1911-1960, Philosophy, Language and languages -- Philosophy, Semantics, Speech acts (Linguistics), Wilson, John Cook | ||||||||
Journal or Publication Title: | British Journal for the History of Philosophy | ||||||||
Publisher: | Routledge | ||||||||
ISSN: | 0960-8788 | ||||||||
Official Date: | 2018 | ||||||||
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Volume: | 26 | ||||||||
Number: | 5 | ||||||||
Page Range: | pp. 939-960 | ||||||||
DOI: | 10.1080/09608788.2017.1413539 | ||||||||
Status: | Peer Reviewed | ||||||||
Publication Status: | Published | ||||||||
Access rights to Published version: | Restricted or Subscription Access | ||||||||
Date of first compliant deposit: | 31 October 2017 | ||||||||
Date of first compliant Open Access: | 11 July 2019 |
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