The Neurophysiologist's Wife

In "Method", Grice proposes us to "consider a very dedicated
neurophysiologist speaking to his wife":

NEUROPHYSIOLOGIST:

My dear.
I Have long thought of myself as an acute
and well-informed interpreter of your
behaviour. I think I have been able to identify
nearly every thought that has made you smile!
My research has even made such a progress that
I no longer need to understand you IN THIS WAY.
I'm happy to say I'm now in a position, with
the aid of an apparatus which I shall promptly
attach you, to assign to each body movement you
make a specific antecedent condition in your
cortex.
In the meantime, perhaps you would have dinner
with me tonight.
I trust you will not resist if I bring along
this apparatus then to help me determine, as
quickly as possible, the physiological idiosyncracies
which obtain in your system.

Grice writes: "I have a feeling that the lady might refuse the proffered
invitation".


GRICE HP. Method in philosophical psychology

cited by N. Block in Readings in the Philosophy of Mind.
Now published by OUP as _The Conception of Value_ by Grice.

GRANDY, R. 'The philosophy of Paul Grice' in
PGRICE. Oxford

Has a special section about what it means to be
a Gricean in matters cognitive (and fail).
with a reply by HP Grice.

The essays contributed to the "Philosophical Psychology" section of that
festschrift include:

1. GRANDY RE. Some misconceptions about belief.
2. PERRY JA. Perception, action, and the structure of believing.
3. HARMAN GA Willing and Intending.

Biblio cited by Grandy in Grandy (1) including:
DENNETT
LYCAN W Towards a homuncular theory of belief
PEACOCKE Sense and Content
Stich, From folk psychology to cognitive science.

The biblio cited by Perry includes Barwise and Perry, Situations and Attitudes
Biblio cited by Harman include: SHAUGNESSY, B. Trying as the mental pineal gland.
FODOR, Psychological explanation, HARMAN, Thoughtm NISBET R Inference: Strategies.

Grandy writes in his intro to the fest (section: philosophical psychology)

"An important part of Grice's view of psychological explanation can be but
this way: his explanation is similar to the explanation and prediction of
the robot's behaviour.

Grice concludes his "Method" with:

"We must be ever watchful against Scientism, the devil who would lead us
into myopic concentration on the importance of science, a devil who is so
audacious as to tempt us to call in question the very system of ideas
required to make intelligible the idea of calling in question anything at
all & would even prompt us that since we do not really think but only
_think that we think_ we better change our minds without undue delay."