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