Value and Valuing

In 197, 1979, Grice lectured on 'reason and reasoning'. In 1983, on Value and valuing.

Paul Grice's book, _The Conception of Value_, Oxford: Clarendon.

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The Conception of Value
Paul Grice, late Fellow of St John's College, Oxford,
and former Professor of Philosophy
Introduction by Judith Baker, Professor of Philosophy,
Glendon College, York University, Toronto, Canada

ISBN 0-19-924387-5
Clarendon Press 172 pages

Contents

Judith Baker: Introduction

The Carus Lectures on the Conception of Value

1. Value and Objectivity

2. Relative and Absolute Value

3. Metaphysics and Value

Reply to Richards, Final Section

Metaphysics, Philosophical Psychology, and Value

Method in Philosophical Psychology (From the Banal to the Bizarre)

Index

The works of Paul Grice collected in this volume
present his metaphysical defence of value, and
represent a modern attempt to provide a
metaphysical foundation for value. The collection
includes Grice's three previously unpublished
Carus Lectures on the conception of value, a
section of his 'Reply to Richards' (previously
published in Grandy and Warner (eds.), Philosophical
Grounds of Rationality, Oxford, 1986), and 'Method
in Philosophical Psychology' (Presidential Address
delivered to the Annual Meeting of the American
Philosophical Association, 1975).

'Although difficult, these lectures sparkle
with wit. Grice's love of subtlety comes
across as an infectious intellectual exuberance.
They are challenging and delightful at the same
time. Happy the writer who can leave readers
grateful to have shared such pleasure in his
ideas.'
-- Simon Blackburn, Times Literary Supplement

'a welcome addition to current debates about
the objectivity of value.'
-- Philosophical Review