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
| 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 |