Recent Contributions to the Theory of Innateness Ideas

1.      J.L Austin was White's Professor of Moral Philosophy at Oxford from 1953 until his early death in 1960. His Philosophical Papers were published in 1961, Sense and Sensi bilia in 1962, and How To Do Things with Words also in 1962. The last -named is a version, not fully completed by Ausrin, of his William James Lectures at Harvard in 1955.

2.      P.F Strawson is Waynflete Professor of Metaphysical Philosophy at Oxford. Among his publications are An Introduction to Logical Theory (1952), Individuals (1959), and The Bounds 0f Sense (J 966). He is the editor of Philosophical Logic in the present series.

3.      J.R searly is a member of the Department of Philosophy of the University of California at BerkeIey. He has contributed many valuable articles to philosophical periodicals, and his book Speech Acts was published in 1969.

4.      H.P Grice, formerly a Fellow of St. John's College, Oxford, is now a member of the Department of Philosophy at Berkeley. He was William James Lecturer at Harvard in 1966.

5.      Noam Chomsky, of the Massachusetts Institute ofTechnology, is perhaps the most influential of contemporary writers on linguistic theory. Among his publications are Syntactic Structures (1957), Current lssues in Linguistic Theory (1964), Aspects 0fthe Theory 0f Syntax (1965), and Cartesian Linguistics (1966). He was John Locke Lecturer in Oxford in 1969.

6.      Jerold. J katz, of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, is the author of The Problem o/Induction and its Solution (1962), The Philosophy 0f Language (J 966), and of many articles. He edited, with J. A. Fodor, The Structure 0f Language (1964).

7.      Hilary Putnam, of the Department of Philosophy, Harvard University, has written many valuable papers on the philosophy of science and mathematics, as well as on linguistic theory. He edited, with Paul Benacerraf, Philosophy 0f Mathematics: Selected Readings (1964).

8.      Nelson Goodman, of Brandeis University was John Locke Lecturer in Oxford in 1962. Besides many important papers, he is the author of The Structure 0/ Appearance (J 951), Fact, Fiction, and Forecast (1955), and Languages 0/ Art (1968).