In a footnote to one essay, this thinker discussed the difference between shooting a donkey by accident and by mistake.
This thinker responded to John Wisdom's skeptical argument about knowledge of others' mental states in a paper that uses the example of identifying a bird in a garden. In a footnote to one essay, this thinker discussed the difference between shooting a donkey by accident and by mistake. Misinvocations and misfires are ways that one of this thinker's concepts can be infelicitous. This author of "Other Minds" examined requirements for (*) responsibility in his essay "A Plea for Excuses." A book by this philosopher attacks the theory that "we never directly perceive or sense material objects, but only sense-data." This philosopher discussed statements that have no truth value but change something in the world, which he called "performative utterances." For 10 points, name this philosopher who wrote How to Do Things with Words and Sense and Sensibilia.
This thinker responded to John Wisdom's skeptical argument about knowledge of others' mental states in a paper that uses the example of identifying a bird in a garden.
John Langshaw Austin