Publications

Publication details [#934]

Austin, John Langshaw. 1946. Other minds. Proceedings of the Aristotelian Society, Supplementary Volume 20 : 148–187.

Publication type

Article in journal

Publication language

English

Keywords

belief | human communication | knowledge | mutual knowledge | speech act

Annotation

An attempt to characterize knowledge and belief, especially about what is going on in other people's minds. A. concludes that believing in other persons is an essential part of the act of communicating. In his exposition, A. deals with numerous conditions on speech acts.

Reviewed by

Wilson, Patrick. 1960. Austin on knowing.

Reprints

Austin, John Langshaw. 1970. In Austin, John Langshaw, ed. Philosophical Papers. Oxford University Press. pp. 76–116.