Notes by J.L. Austin for his course of lectures entitled 'Words and deeds', given at Oxford, 1951-4, and at Harvard, 1955, used as the basis of How to do things with words, ed. J.O. Urmson (Oxford, 1962).
Notes by J.L. Austin
This material is held atBodleian Library, University of Oxford
- Reference
- GB 161 MSS. Eng. misc. c. 394-5
- Dates of Creation
- 1951-5
- Language of Material
- English.
- Physical Description
- 2 shelfmarks
Scope and Content
Administrative / Biographical History
John Langshaw Austin (1911-1960) was a philosopher. Details are given in the Dictionary of National Biography.
Access Information
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Acquisition Information
The notes were given to the Library by Mrs Jean Austin, through J.O. Urmson, in 1962.
Note
Collection level description created by Emily Tarrant, Department of Special Collections and Western Manuscripts.
Other Finding Aids
M. Clapinson and T.D. Rogers, Summary Catalogue of Post-Medieval Western Manuscripts in the Bodleian Library Oxford. Acquisitions 1916-1975. (Oxford, 1991), vol. I, nos. 43895-6.