How to Do Things with Austin

Argues that, far from presenting an insurmountable obstacle to the project of constructive epistemology, the deployment of Austin’s requirement of fidelity enables us to find new solutions to epistemological problems; argues, in particular, that, once we embrace Austin’s fidelity requirement, we can see that we must reject solutions to the paradoxes of the lottery and preface that would have us effect an indifference to whether our set of beliefs is consistent or deductively cogent; offers a solution to the paradox of the lottery; argues that Austin’s insights, into how to think about knowledge and fallibility, enable us see how properly to solve the paradox of the preface.