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Austin's Way with Skepticism - An Essay on Philosophical Method (Hardcover)
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Austin's Way with Skepticism - An Essay on Philosophical Method (Hardcover)
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J. L. Austin is famous for writing as if he thought it a condition,
on the adequacy of what we say while doing epistemology, that it
accord faithfully with what we would say in ordinary circumstances.
A durable consensus formed after Austin's death that his pursuit of
epistemology faithful to 'ordinary language' was fundamentally
misguided. While critics saw his methods as resulting from a
failure properly to understand the nature of the epistemologist's
project, Mark Kaplan argues that this consensus arose from a
misreading of Austin. In Austin's Way with Skepticism: An Essay on
Philosophical Method, he sets out his stance that both the
condition of adequacy to which Austin was committed and his reason
for being committed to it, have been misunderstood by his critics.
Starting by carefully analysing what Austin said about knowledge in
'Other Minds,' examining the response to skeptical arguments, and
taking seriously the methodological remarks Austin scattered in his
corpus, Kaplan demonstrates that Austin's methods were not born of
a misunderstanding of the project of epistemology. Rather, Austin
was a powerful critique of how that project has been conceived
though was not against epistemological theorizing itself. Kaplan
concludes that Austin understood himself to be offering substantive
answers to key epistemological questions and defending a way of
doing epistemology that is fully capable of providing these
important answers.
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