Oswald Hanfling is Visiting Research Professor of Philosophy at the Open University. He is the author of several books including Logical Positivism, The Quest for Meaning, Wittgenstein’s Later Philosophy, and Wittgenstein and the Human Form of Life (Routledge 2002).

• Introduction; Part 1 The philosophy of ‘what we say’; Chapter 1 Socrates and the quest for definitions; Chapter 2 Austin; Chapter 3 Wittgenstein; Chapter 4 ‘What we say’; Chapter 5 What is wrong with the paradigm case argument?; Chapter 6 Knowledge and the uses of ‘knowledge’; Chapter 7 The paradox of scepticism; Part 2 The philosophy of ‘what we say’; Chapter 8 Drawing the curtain of words; Chapter 9 Language remade; Chapter 10 Grice; Chapter 11 Quine and the unity of science; Chapter 12 Scientific realism; Chapter 13 ‘Folk psychology’ and the language of science;