James O. Urmson
James Opie Urmson (born March 4, 1915 in Hornsea , Yorkshire , † January 29, 2012 ) was an English philosopher .
Life
Urmson attended Corpus Christi College in Oxford since 1934 . From 1939 to 1945 he worked at Magdalen College and from 1945 to 1955 at Christ Church College . From 1955 to 1959 he taught as 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 in the 1950/51 academic year, he became friends with John Rawls . He was visiting professor three times at the University of Michigan .
Research priorities
His main research interests were JL Austin , John Stuart Mill and Aristotle . Urmson posthumously edited Austin's How to do things with words series of lectures . His contributions to the ethical debate are well known, e. B. His essays On Grading (1950), The Interpretation of the Moral Philosophy of J. St. Mill (1953) and Saints and Heros (1958) and his book on the ethics of Aristotle. Urmson considered the division of actions into morally forbidden, permitted and obligatory as insufficient and added a fourth category with the term supererogation : actions that are morally praiseworthy but not obligatory. He interprets Mill as a rule utilitarian. None of his books have been translated into German. A German-language monograph dealing with his work is still missing today. Among the German philosophers he is u. a. received by Maximilian Forschner .
Publications
- author
- 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
- editor
- The Concise Encyclopedia of Western Philosophy. Together with Jonathan Rée . Routledge 2004.
- John Langshaw Austin: How to Do Things with Words. The William James Lectures delivered at Harvard University in 1955 . Posthumously together with Marina Sbisa. Second, improved edition, Harvard University Press, 1975 [1. Clarendon Press, Oxford 1962].
- German edition: On the theory of speech acts . German adaptation by Eike von Savigny . Reclam, Ditzingen 1972, ISBN 3-15-009396-1
- translator
- Simplikios : Corollaries on Place and Time. Duckworth, London 1992, ISBN 0-7156-2252-8
- Simplikios: On Aristotle , Physics 3. Duckworth, London 2002, ISBN 0-7156-3067-9
- Simplikios: On Aristotle, Physics 4.1-5, 10-14. Duckworth, London 1992, ISBN 0-7156-2434-2
- Simplikios: On Aristotle, Physics 5. Duckworth, London 1997, ISBN 0-7156-2765-1
literature
- Richard M. Hare: Analytics and Metaphysics in Oxford , in: Philosophische Rundschau 5 (1957) 269-280.
Individual evidence
- ^ Professor James Urmson - Telegraph. In: telegraph.co.uk. Retrieved April 5, 2012 .
- ^ Thomas W. Pogge: John Rawls. Munich 1994. 22f.
- ↑ A German translation appeared in: Grewendorf / Meggle (ed.), Sprache und Ethik. Frankfurt 1974.
- ↑ A German translation appeared in 1975 in the published by O. Höffe. Anthology Introduction to utilitarian ethics .
- ^ Austin's manuscripts in: Bodleian Library, MS. Closely. misc. c. 394/5.
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Urmson, James O. |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Urmson, James Opie (full name) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | English philosopher |
| DATE OF BIRTH | March 4, 1915 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Hornsea , Yorkshire |
| DATE OF DEATH | January 29, 2012 |