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julcoh's review
4.0
I picked this up somewhat at random from a display of used books at a park music event in LA.
I do not have an academic background in philosophy and merely dabble in the subject, but immensely enjoyed these 140 pages of J.L. Austin dismantling the theses of Ayer and Price.
There is an “everyman” sense of humanism in Austin’s writing… he effectively denounces the tendency of Ayer and Price (and philosophers generally, he makes quite clear) to ignore or remove the ordinary meanings of words before mapping on their own meanings.
Austin’s key thesis is that bifurcating the world into “sense data” and “material things” is a false dichotomy, and he doesn’t so much argue against the claim as pronounce it nonsensical from the start and explain why.
I do not have an academic background in philosophy and merely dabble in the subject, but immensely enjoyed these 140 pages of J.L. Austin dismantling the theses of Ayer and Price.
There is an “everyman” sense of humanism in Austin’s writing… he effectively denounces the tendency of Ayer and Price (and philosophers generally, he makes quite clear) to ignore or remove the ordinary meanings of words before mapping on their own meanings.
Austin’s key thesis is that bifurcating the world into “sense data” and “material things” is a false dichotomy, and he doesn’t so much argue against the claim as pronounce it nonsensical from the start and explain why.
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