Comments on: Hart’s biography

By: jessica mclaughlin

jessica mclaughlin — Fri, 11 Mar 2005 17:52:58 +0000

i have heard that brett hart died in a car accident is it true please email me at jessicamclghln@yahoo.com i would appreciate it

By: Jorn Barger

Jorn Barger — Tue, 30 Nov 1999 00:00:00 +0000

Can it really be true that “every student of philosophy is puzzled by the point of Austin’s minute investigations of English usage”???

I’m an AI-and-literature guy, not a philosopher, but Wittgenstein bores me stiff, while I find Austin thrilling…

I read somewhere that he envisioned a sort of Manhattan project in ordinary-language analysis, where hundreds of Austin-trained introspectors would go thru the dictionary word by word, and untangle the Rest of Philosophy. Which is a little like what Lenat’s Cyc project is after (see url below).

By: John Quiggin

John Quiggin — Tue, 30 Nov 1999 00:00:00 +0000

There's also an interesting review in Prospect. Subscribers only, but worth a click for the opening para.

By: Jonathan

Jonathan — Tue, 30 Nov 1999 00:00:00 +0000

I apologize for being off-topic here, but Jorn, if you’re an ai-and-literature guy, I’d recommend trying blogging. It really enables you to share ideas, particularly ecletic ones, with a diverse audience; and many folks are trying it out nowadays.

By: Jorn Barger

Jorn Barger — Tue, 30 Nov 1999 00:00:00 +0000

I’ve been blogging for some good while (see:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Weblogs#Blogging_begins)

and I started for that very reason—to build an audience for my obscure ideas. I did manage to build an audience, but if you Google for links to my obscure pages, it’ll break your heart (or mine, anyway).

By: Jonathan

Jonathan — Tue, 30 Nov 1999 00:00:00 +0000

I know—joke.

By: dave heasman

dave heasman — Tue, 30 Nov 1999 00:00:00 +0000

Wow, Jorn’s back! This is fantastic. Hooray. Unconfined joy etc.

By: Jorn Barger

Jorn Barger — Tue, 30 Nov 1999 00:00:00 +0000

(Nobody has an opinion on JL Austin?)