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SUMMARY:Philosophy Research Seminar: Professor Siobhan Chapman (Universit
 y of Liverpool)
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DESCRIPTION:This seminar will be taking place on campus\, and in person\,
  at Roscoe 2.3. If you are unable to come to campus\, a zoom option will
  be available - please contact Dr Stephen Ingram to request the relevant
  zoom info.\n\nTitle\n*Alice Ambrose\, Margaret MacDonald and the Proble
 ms of Ordinary Language\n\nAbstract\n*Alice Ambrose (1906-2001) and Marg
 aret MacDonald (1907-1956) are recorded in the history of analytic philo
 sophy largely in terms of their relationship to Ludwig Wittgenstein. The
 y took notes at his Cambridge lectures and discussion groups in the 1930
 s\, which became some of the most important sources of information about
  his thinking in the period of transition between his earlier and later 
 work. In this paper I will argue that both need to be recovered and reco
 nsidered as significant philosophers in their own right\, who have impor
 tant contributions to make to the familiar problems posed by ordinary la
 nguage in relation to philosophy. Ambrose worked mainly in mathematics a
 nd symbolic logic\, but she also brought clarity to the various ways in 
 which ordinary language featured in contemporary philosophical discussio
 n\, and identified the centrality of ‘linguistic innovation’ to much phi
 losophical practice. MacDonald argued that many philosophical problems c
 an be solved by understanding how language is ordinarily used\, and publ
 ished her case before more celebrated ‘ordinary language philosophers’\,
  most notably J. L. Austin. She also set out ideas and terminology which
  were later to be associated with Austin’s speech act theory in her cont
 ributions to ethics and aesthetics. Both Ambrose and MacDonald contribut
 ed to and extended the application of the study of natural language in a
 nalytic philosophy in ways which deserve to be recovered and to be subje
 cted to further philosophical scrutiny.
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CLASS:PUBLIC
LOCATION:2.3\, Roscoe Building\, Manchester
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