![]() ![]() Till his death in 1960 he gave lectures and published work, mostly in the discipline of the language philosophy. After Word War Two, where he served the British M16, he came back to Oxford University to become the head of the Moral Philosophy department. ![]() During his studies he became strongly inspired by the work of philosophers and especially the work of Aristotles. At the age of 18 he went to Oxford university, were he studied the classical languages. In his youth the family moved to Scotland, were his father got a job as secretary of lower school. John Langshaw Austin was born on 26 March 1911 in Lancaster as the second child of the family. Together with Ludwig Wittgenstein, Austin is seen as one of the most influential figures in the linguistic philosophy. Austin (1911 - 1960) was a British philosopher, who is best known for his contributions to the philosophy of language. ![]()
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