He distinguishes between accidents and mistakes in "A Plea for Excuses."
This philosopher used the scenario of a student who performs the titular action on the hair of the girl in front of him to draw distinctions between deliberation, intention, and purpose in his paper "Three Ways of Spilling Ink." He distinguishes between accidents and mistakes in "A Plea for Excuses." His theories are criticized in an essay arguing for a "graphematic" structure of all communication titled "Signature Event Context" by Jacques Derrida. This philosopher analyzed sentences that lack truth value, which he initially called "performative utterances," while in another work he discussed perlocutionary, locutionary, and illocutionary varieties of the central concept. For 10 points, identify this British philosopher who developed speech-act theory in How to Do Things With Words.
This philosopher used the scenario of a student who performs the titular action on the hair of the girl in front of him to draw distinctions between deliberation, intention, and purpose in his paper "Three Ways of Spilling Ink."
John Langshaw Austin