J. L. Austin - 2024 ACF Winter

Question

Jacques Derrida responded to this philosopher’s idea of illocutionary acts in his essay “Signature Event Context,” leading to a debate between Derrida and John Searle. For 10 points each:

[10m] Name this philosopher who outlined performative utterances in How to Do Things with Words. This philosopher wrote Sense and Sensibilia.

ANSWER: J. L. Austin [or John Langshaw Austin]

[10e] The Derrida–Searle debate is sometimes taken as emblematic of the differences between analytic philosophy and this broad grouping of philosophy associated with mainland Europe.

ANSWER: continental philosophy

[10h] Searle argued that Derrida misunderstood the distinction between these two concepts, one a class and the other its instances. Different answers to “How many letters are there in ‘speech’?” illustrate a distinction between these two concepts.

ANSWER: types AND tokens [accept type–token distinction]

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Summary


2024 ACF Winter at Clemson	2024-11-16	Y	1	10.00	100%	0%	0%
2024 ACF Winter at Lehigh	2024-11-16	Y	6	11.67	83%	33%	0%
2024 ACF Winter at Northwestern	2024-11-16	Y	9	14.44	78%	67%	0%
2024 ACF Winter at Ohio State	2024-11-16	Y	7	11.43	86%	29%	0%
2024 ACF Winter at Online	2024-11-16	Y	8	12.50	75%	50%	0%
2024 ACF Winter at UBC	2024-11-16	Y	3	10.00	100%	0%	0%
2024 ACF Winter at Central Florida	2024-11-16	Y	5	8.00	60%	20%	0%
2024 ACF Winter at Brandeis	2024-11-16	Y	9	7.78	67%	11%	0%

Data


Auburn A	Georgia Tech B	0	10	10
Bard A	Penn A	0	10	10
Columbia A	Haverford A	10	10	20
Lehigh A	Columbia B	0	10	10
Penn State A	Princeton A	10	10	20
Rutgers A	Rowan A	0	0	0
Rutgers C	Johns Hopkins B	0	10	10
Indiana A	UChicago A	10	10	20
UIUC C	Miami	10	10	20
Notre Dame	WashU C	0	10	10
Purdue B	UChicago D	0	0	0
Indiana B	SIUE A	10	0	10
UIUC A	UIUC B	10	10	20
UChicago C	UIUC D	0	10	10
UChicago B	WashU D	10	10	20
Northwestern A	Purdue A	10	10	20
CWRU B (UG)	Pitt B (UG)	10	10	20
Kenyon A (UG)	Kenyon B (DII)	0	10	10
Michigan A	Pitt A	0	10	10
Michigan B	Michigan State A	10	10	20
Michigan C (UG)	Ohio State C (DII)	0	10	10
Michigan State C (UG)	CWRU D (DII)	0	0	0
Ohio State B (DII)	Ohio State A (UG)	0	10	10
Central Oklahoma	NYU B	10	10	20
Mississippi State	Oregon State	10	0	10
Missouri	NYU A	10	10	20
Texas A	Iowa	10	10	20
Texas D	Colorado College	0	0	0
Texas C	Vassar B	0	10	10
McGill E	WUSTL A	0	10	10
Texas B	Vassar A	0	10	10
Alberta	SFU	0	10	10
UBC A	UBC B	0	10	10
UW A	UW B	0	10	10
UF A	Florida State University A	10	10	20
UF C	UCF B	0	10	10
UCF A	UF D	0	10	10
UF E	Florida Tech B	0	0	0
Florida Tech A	UF F	0	0	0
Boston University B	Amherst A	0	0	0
Boston University A	Clark A	0	10	10
Yale B	Bowdoin B	0	10	10
Tufts A	Brown A	0	0	0
Yale C	Carabrandeis	0	10	10
Bowdoin A	Diamond Brandeis	0	10	10
Tufts B	Harvard A	0	10	10
MIT A	Brandeises Brew	0	0	0
Yale A	Northeastern A	10	10	20