Comment faire les choses : du pluralisme des descriptions de l'action
(2010)
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- Crabbé, Marcel
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- (en) When one thinks about describing action, it is usually agreed that there are many ways to describe what was done on a given occasion. When it is rightly acknowledged, I call this fact “pluralism”. But there are many ways to misconceive this fact. I focused on a particularly widespread misconception: doing an action is just, only, or ultimately moving our body. A critique of the idea is obviously that moving our body is but one of several aspects that might be required to have done a given thing. J. L. AUSTIN had various ideas compatible with this critique and so with pluralism. I identified and developed a few of these ideas thanks to the notion of “model” (its distinguishing features) found in AUSTIN. These ideas run counter to some widely used tools for describing action, such as “knowing under a description”, the “accordion effect”, and the “swallowing effect”. If these descriptive tools appear at first to be compatible with pluralism, the study of the models I found in AUSTIN shows they are not.
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Maréchal, J. (2010). Comment faire les choses : du pluralisme des descriptions de l’action. https://hdl.handle.net/2078.5/131051