Grice -- a 'behaviourist'?

The word 'behaviourism' is misapplied when used in connection with Grice, or applied to Grice, if I may be redundant or contradictory.

Grice was _not_ a behaviourist. _Ryle_ was a behaviourist. Grice was an _intentionalist_.

The polemic perhaps started in 1971 when Searle reprinted Grice WoW:vi in is "Philosphy of Language" Oxford collection, ed. Warnock. This had Chomsky, in Reflections of Language, join the Searleans. Grice is a behaviourist, and the ULTIMATE behaviourist at that: look at his talk of 'have a procedure in one's repertoire' in terms of basic resultant procedures. The epitome of Watson!

-- The last straw(man) was Biro, "Grice is so behaviourist he hurts". But us Griceans know better.

In the pages of that cherrished volume, PGRICE, ed. Grandy and Warner -- and now Chapman in her bio -- has clarified things. Suppes reivindicates Grice as an intentionalist -- and Chapman relying on the UNITY or continuity of Grice's thoughts -- eg. his early "Intention and Disposition", joins in.

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