Sentence examples for language philosopher from inspiring English sources

Ryle is often described as an ordinary language philosopher or as recommending that philosophy should concern itself with the ordinary use of language.

As an ordinary language philosopher, Austin grounds his notion of fact more in linguistic usage than in an articulated metaphysics, but he defends his use of fact-talk in Austin (1961b).

It is only in the late 20th century that the language philosopher and linguist Humboldt has been discovered in France by men like Henri Meschonic, Jean Rousseau or Denis Thouard (For their publications see, Büsch 2006, pp. 239f, 243f, and 247f).

It was very clear for me as a language philosopher that there must be agents who edit the genetic code, competently, not by chance.

In this provocative book, Barwise and Perry tackle the slippery subject of 'meaning', a subject that has long vexed linguists, language philosophers, and logicians.

This view contrasts with that held by ordinary language philosophers fifty years ago: according to them, speech acts, not sentences, are the primary bearers of content.

Husserl, Anscombe, Ayer and Dennett are lurking in the background for their work on intentionality, as are—even more so ordinary language philosophers such as Searle, Strawson, Grice and Austin.

Drawing on key methods and insights of ordinary language philosophers from Austin to Wittgenstein, Thomas looks at parliamentary debates, print journalism, radio and television transcripts, official government reports, legislation, and other primary sources related to the rights and status of immigrants and their descendants.

Bentham and Austin (unlike J.L. Austin) were not ordinary language philosophers.

The first reason is that atheism was the predominant opinion among English language philosophers throughout much of that century.

Sometimes Ryle and other ordinary language philosophers seem to go too far in this direction; substituting one confining orthodoxy about analysis for another.