PHILOS 4 Lecture Notes - Lecture 14: Performative Utterance
7 Feb 2016
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Won"t have to know so and so"s name or concept, etc. A few word answers; at most 1-2 sentences. 2/3 of it will be on the papers. Conventionalist argument: why do you keep your promises. We have an interest in there to be a convention of doing such and such. That convention tells me to keep my promises. You should act to preserve something in doing such and such. Should not cut so we have a line. You invite someone to rely on you. They can come back with that and have a claim against you. Will you marry me? : proposing, betting, naming, testifying, confessing, apologizing. Devised by austin and cerill: by saying you"re proposing, you are actually doing it, performative utterance (performative) = things we do by saying we"re doing it. It is a promise if the other person uptakes whatever you are offering.
