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Interpreting J.L. Austin: critical essays
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Interpreting J.L. Austin: critical essays
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This is a major study of J.L. Austin's philosophy. Leading philosophers show the relevance of his work to current debates including scepticism and contextualism, the epistemology of testimony, and the semantics/pragmatics distinction. They demonstrate why Austin's work is of con…
This book unites J. L. Austin's insights about the pragmatics of assurance giving and the semantics of knowledge claims into a systematic whole. The central theme in the Austinian view is that of reasonableness: appeal to a reasonable person standard makes the practice of assura…
What is an assurance? What do we do when we claim to know? Krista Lawlor offers an original account based on the work of J.L. Austin. She addresses challenges to contextualist semantic theories; resolves closure-based skeptical paradoxes; and helps us tread the line between ackn…
J.L. Austin
by Warnock, G. J., (Warnock, Geoffrey James)
fromArguments of the philosophers
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In 'Austin's Way with Skepticism', Mark Kaplan argues that J.L Austin's 'ordinary language' approach to epistemological problems has been misread. Contrary to the consensus view, Kaplan presents Austin's methods as both a powerful critique of the project of constructive epistemo…