J. L. Austin - 2024 ACF Winter at UBC

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


Alberta	SFU	10	10
UBC A	UBC B	10	10
UW A	UW B	10	10