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Looking at the work of J.L. Austin, who subjected language to a close and intense analysis, this book deals with his examination of the various things we do with words, and with the philosophical insights he believed could be gained by closely examining the uses of words by non-philosophers.

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Acknowledgements Notes on Contributors Introduction; Brian Garvey Remembering J.L. Austin; Ann Lendrum 1. Recollections of Austin; John R. Searle PART I: SPEECH ACT THEORY 2. Austin on Language and Action; Marina Sbisà 3. When Words Do Things: Perlocutions and Social Affordances; Charles Lassiter 4. Etiolations; Joe Friggieri 5. How to Do Things Without Words; Tom Grimwood and Paul K. Miller PART II: ORDINARY LANGUAGE AND PHILOSOPHICAL METHOD 6. Austin´s Method; Hanno Birken-Bertsch 7. Getting the Philosopher out of the Armchair: J. L. Austin´s Response to Logical Positivism in Comparison to that of Arne Naess; Siobhan Chapman 8. Verbal Fallacies and Philosophical Intuitions: The Continuing Relevance of Ordinary Language Analysis; Eugen Fischer 9. Sense and Sensibilia and the Significance of Linguistic Phenomenology; Roberta Locatelli PART III: LANGUAGE, PERCEPTION AND MIND 10. Austin on the Philosophy of Perception; Paul Snowdon 11. Austin on Conceptual Polarity and Sensation Deception Metaphors; Dale Jacquette 12. The Importance of Intentions in Introspection; Kevin Reuter 13. Ordinary Language and the Nature of Emotions and Motives; Harry Lesser References Index

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Hanno Birken-Bertsch, independent scholar, Germany Siobhan Chapman, University of Liverpool, UK Eugen Fischer, University of East Anglia, UK Joe Friggieri, University of Malta Tom Grimwood, University of Cumbria, UK Dale Jacquette, Universität Bern, Switzerland Charles Lassiter, Gonzaga University in Spokane, Washington, USA Harry Lesser, University of Manchester, UK Roberta Locatelli, University of Warwick, UK Paul Miller, University of Cumbria, UK Kevin Reuter, Ruhr University in Bochum, Germany Marina Sbisà, University of Trieste, Italy John R. Searle, University of California, Berkeley, USA Paul F. Snowdon, University College London, UK

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