His more contemporary influences included especially G. He undertook his first teaching position in 1935, as fellow and tutor at Magdalen College, Oxford.Īustin's early interests included Aristotle, Kant, Leibniz, and Plato (especially the Theaetetus). Literae Humaniores introduced him to serious philosophy and gave him a lifelong interest in Aristotle. In finals in 1933 he received a first in Literae Humaniores (Philosophy and Ancient History). In 1930 he received a First in Classical Moderations (Greek and Latin) and in the following year won the Gaisford Prize for Greek prose. Austin was educated at Shrewsbury School in 1924, earning a scholarship in Classics, and went on to study Classics at Balliol College, Oxford, in 1929.
In 1921 the family moved to Scotland, where Austin's father became the secretary of St Leonards School, St Andrews. Austin's work ultimately suggests that all speech and all utterance is the doing of something with words and signs, challenging a metaphysics of language that would posit denotative, propositional assertion as the essence of language and meaning.Īustin was born in Lancaster, England, the second son of Geoffrey Langshaw Austin (1884–1971), an architect, and Mary Hutton Bowes-Wilson (1883–1948 née Wilson). Austin, in providing his theory of speech acts, makes a significant challenge to the philosophy of language, far beyond merely elucidating a class of morphological sentence forms that function to do what they name. Hence the name of one of his best-known works How to Do Things with Words. Īustin 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- making a promise-rather than making an assertion about anything. John Langshaw Austin (26 March 1911 – 8 February 1960) was a British philosopher of language and leading proponent of ordinary language philosophy, best known for developing the theory of speech acts. Judith Butler, Stanley Cavell, Jacques Derrida, Jürgen Habermas, Rom Harré, John Searle, Rae Langton, Nancy Bauer, Alice Crary, Kevin Vanhoozer
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