J. O. Urmson

James Opie Urmson ( born March 4, 1915 in Hornsea, Yorkshire, † 29 January 2012) was an English philosopher.

Life

Urmson visited since 1934, the Corpus Christi College, Oxford. From 1939 to 1945 he worked at Magdalen College, and from 1945 to 1955 at Christ Church College. From 1955 to 1959 he was professor of philosophy at the University of St. Andrews and since 1959 as Professor of Philosophy at Corpus Christi College, Oxford. As a visiting professor at Princeton during the academic year 1950/51 he became friends with John Rawls. Three times he was a visiting professor at the University of Michigan.

Research priorities

His research focus was on JL Austin, John Stuart Mill and Aristotle. Urmson was posthumously out Austin's lecture series How to do things with words. Very well known are his contributions to the ethical debate eg his essays on grading (1950), The Interpretation of the Moral Philosophy of John Stuart Mill (1953) and Saints and Heros ( 1958) and his book on the ethics of Aristotle. Urmson considered the classification of actions in morally forbidden, permitted and obligatory as insufficient and added the concept of supererogatory a fourth category added: acts that are morally praiseworthy, but not obligatory. Mill he interpreted as Regelutilitaristen. None of his books has been translated into German. A German -language monograph, which deals with his work, is still lacking. Among the German philosopher he is, inter alia, rezipiert of Maximilian Forschner.

Publications

  • On grading. In: Mind 59 (1950 ) 145-169.
  • Philosophical Analysis. Its Development Between The Two World Wars. Clarendon Press, Oxford 1958.
  • Berkeley. Oxford University Press, 1983 ISBN 978-0192875464
  • The Greek Philosophical Vocabulary, Duckworth (2009) ISBN 978-0715623350
  • The Concise Encyclopedia of Western Philosophy. Together with Jonathan Ree. Routledge, 2004.
  • James Langshaw Austin: How to Do Things with Words. The William James Lectures delivered at Harvard University in 1955. Postum, together with Marina Sbisa. Second, revised edition, Harvard University Press, 1975 [ first Edition Clarendon Press, Oxford 1962 ]. German edition: On the theory of speech acts. German treatment of Eike von Savigny. Reclam, 1972 ISBN 3-15-009396-1 Ditzingen
  • Simplicius: Corollaries on Place and Time. Duckworth, London 1992 ISBN 0-7156-2252-8
  • Simplicius: On Aristotle, Physics 3 Duckworth, London 2002 ISBN 0-7156-3067-9
  • Simplicius: On Aristotle Physics 4.1-5, 10-14. Duckworth, London 1992 ISBN 0-7156-2434-2
  • Simplicius: On Aristotle, Physics 5, Duckworth, London 1997 ISBN 0-7156-2765-1
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