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How to Do Things with Words Second Edition

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ISBN-10: 0674411528

ISBN-13: 9780674411524

Edition: 2nd 1975

Authors: J. L. Austin, J. O. Urmson, Marina Sbis�, Marina Sbis�

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John L. Austin was one of the leading philosophers of the twentieth century. The William James Lectures presented Austin's conclusions in the field to which he directed his main efforts on a wide variety of philosophical problems. These talks became the classic How to Do Things with Words. For this second edition, the editors have returned to Austin's original lecture notes, amending the printed text where it seemed necessary. Students will find the new text clearer, and, at the same time, more faithful to the actual lectures. An appendix contains literal transcriptions of a number of marginal notes made by Austin but not included in the text. Comparison of the text with these…    
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Book details

List price: $30.00
Edition: 2nd
Copyright year: 1975
Publisher: Harvard University Press
Publication date: 4/15/1975
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 176
Size: 7.52" wide x 7.24" long x 0.58" tall
Weight: 0.440
Language: English

J.O. Urmson was Emeritus Professor of Stanford University and an Emeritus Fellow of Corpus Christi College, University of Oxford, UK and his publications include Philosophical Analysis: its development between the two world wars (1963), The Emotive Theory of Ethics (1968); Berkeley (1982), and Aristotle's Ethics (1988).