This is the first major study of J. L. Austin's philosophy in decades. 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 continuing value and interest to philosophers today

• 1: Martin Gustafsson: Introduction: Inheriting Austin


• 2: Simon Glendinning: Unmasking the Tradition


• 3: Mark Kaplan: Tales of the Unknown: Austin and the Argument from Ignorance


• 4: Adam Leite: Austin, Dreams, and Scepticism


• 5: Benjamin McMyler: Believing what the Man Says about his own Feelings


• 6: Avner Baz: Knowing Knowing (that Such and Such)


• 7: Charles Travis: Truth and Merit


• 8: Jean-Philippe Narboux: 'There's Many a Slip between Cup and Lip': Dimension and Negation in Austin

Martin Gustafsson is Professor of Philosophy at Åbo Akademi University, Finland. His chief research interests are in the philosophy of language, the philosophy of action, philosophical methodology, and the history of analytic philosophy. He has published papers on Austin, Cavell, Davidson, Hacking, McDowell, Quine, Rawls, Wittgenstein, and others.
; Richard Sørli is Associate Professor at the Department of Philosophy, University of Bergen, Norway. His research interests centre on philosophy of language, early analytic philosophy, and political philosophy. He has published papers on Wittgenstein, Cavell, Frege, Heidegger, and Carnap.