Contemporary Ordinary Language Philosophy

Bibliographic Data

ID4079976
AuthorsNat Hansen (0000-0001-5074-1075, University of Reading, corresponding author)
Year2014
Volume9
Issue8
Pages556-569
Publication date2014-08-01
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenuePhilosophy Compass (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 1747-9991 • E-ISSN: 1747-9991
PublisherWiley (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1111/phc3.12152
OpenAlexW1530482108
LanguageEN
Citations received9
References cited75

There is a widespread assumption that ordinary language philosophy was killed off sometime in the 1960s or 70s by a combination of Gricean pragmatics and the rapid development of systematic semantic theory.Contrary to that widespread assumption, however, contemporary versions of ordinary language philosophy are alive and flourishing but going by various aliases - in particular (some versions of) 'contextualism' and (some versions of) 'experimental philosophy'. And a growing group of contemporary philosophers are explicitly embracing the title as well as the methods of ordinary language philosophy and arguing that it has been unfairly maligned and was never decisively refuted. In this overview, I will outline the main projects and arguments employed by contemporary ordinary language philosophers and make the case that updated versions of the arguments made by ordinary language philosophers in the middle of the 20th century are attracting renewed attention

Contextualism · Epistemology · Experimental philosophy · Flourishing · Linguistics · Metaphysics · Ordinary language philosophy · Philosophy of language · Western philosophy · Epistemology, Ethics, and Metaphysics · Philosophy · Philosophy and Theoretical Science · Psychology · Syntax, Semantics, Linguistic Variation