Human Agency
Subtitle: Language, Duty, and Value
Contributors: Jonathan Dancy (Editor); J. Moravcsik (Editor); C. Taylor (Editor)
Edition: 1 edition
Publisher: Stanford University Press
Published: October 1, 1988
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 324
ISBN-13: 9780804714747
Subjects: Epistemology, theory of knowledge; Western philosophy, from c 1900 -; General; Esthetics; Ethics (General); Philosophy; Knowledge, Theory of; Philosophy / General; Urmson, J. O; Aesthetics; Ethics; Language and languages
First sentence: In his paper "Performative Utterances," J. O. Urmson presents a useful summary of J. L. Austin's principal doctrines about performatives and a careful account of their development.