User:KYPark/1955

JL Austin[edit]

How to Do Things with Words: The William James Lectures delivered at Harvard University, 1955.; posthumously published by (J. O. Urmson, ed.) Oxford: Clarendon, 1962.

[Here] ``he attacks what was at his time a predominant account in philosophy, namely, the view that the chief business of sentences is to state facts, and thus to be true or false based on the truth or falsity of those facts. In contrast to this common view, he argues, truth-evaluable sentences form only a small part of the range of utterances. After introducing several kinds of sentences which he asserts are indeed not truth-evaluable, he turns in particular to one of these kinds of sentences, which he deems performative utterances.``

Bertrand Russell (1905) "On Denoting"
Peter Strawson (1950) "On Referring" (titled as a rejoinder to Russell 1905!)
1956 Conference: Cognitive revolution?
1957 Sputnik: Scientific revolution?
1959 Clashes: For Scientific revolutions?
- Ernest Gellner (1959) Words and Things (an attack on Oxonians, backed up by Russell, Popper and IA Richards!)
- Noam Chomsky (1959) Review of B. F. Skinner (1957) Verbal Behavior
- CP Snow (1959) The Two Cultures and the Scientific Revolution (Rede Lecture: An attack on humanities; a harsh counter-attack by IA Richards's old student! Frank Leavis (1962) Two Cultures?)
Willard Quine (1960) Word and Object
Roderick Chisholm (1976) Person and Object (titled as a rejoinder to Quine 1960!)
Linguistic philosophy vs Analytic philosophy

The Construction of Reality in the Child: translated by Margaret Cook, 1955, Routledge and Kegan Paul.; "The Elaboration of the Universe" (Conclusion) [1]

``The [book] contains many insights that have proven prescient with the development of a complex Internet-based global society.``
``Borrowing Julian Huxley's expression, Teilhard describes humankind as evolution becoming conscious of itself.``
Long review by Sir Peter Medawar