--- by J. L. S.
------ For The Grice Circle, Club, etc.
---- MY FRIEND DAVID Ritchie once pointed out to me -- he teaches history at an arts college in Portland, and he was born north of the Tweed, Scotland -- that what we need is Studies Studies and not just "Grice Studies" -- vide Syllabus for Grice Studies, PhD programme with an option to post-doc -- this blog.
IN A SIMILAR VEIN, Ian Cargan Dengler, another friend (of mine), retrieves things from "The Philospher´s Index" for 1966 (that year of Grice).
Dengler asks, "Where does Grice fit?" and suggests, "nowhere" ("the implicature of breakthru"). Chapman quotes from a Berkeley Univ. of Calif. student prospectus-catalogue where Grice defined his self: "His specialty", he is being illeist, "is philosophy of language, but has recently found out that everything is connected, somehow" (or words to that effect).
So that´s why I think "Grice Studies" makes best justice.
At UCL, actually, the do have a "MA Pragmatics". So that´s just one step before the full "Grice Studies" PhD.
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The keywords are key to any taxonomy worth her name (in Italian, taxonomy is feminine). I propose two types of keywords:
PROPER-NAME KEYWORDS:
e.g.
GRICE
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In some systems, this yields the philosophy of Grice and the philosophy of Grice. The philosopher´s index for example, does not distinguish, and I once made the silly mistake of ordering interlibrary loan a silly article on "Grice´s theory of the pact, revisited", only to find out it was Geoffrey Russell Grice´s theory.
So some propose
PAUL GRICE
as keyword but that would have offended the early Grice who only went by "H. P. Grice"
So some propose
H. P. GRICE
as keywoard, as I would.
Still others prefer
H. PAUL GRICE
--- so that´s already a minor problem.
Subject-matter keywords (to open what words?):
IMPLICATURE
CONVERSATIONAL MAXIMS
COOPERATIVE PRINCIPLE
IMMANUEL
PIROT
LOVE
MY CUPBOARD
LOVE
I LOVE YOU
CONVENTIONAL IMPLICATURE
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i.e. it turns out that anything can become a keyword, including, of course:
KEYWORD
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Yes, the Philosopher's Index does distinguish, and the articles are cited. I errored in not establishing that in my post.
ReplyDeleteThanks -- what a beautiful thing, the Philosopher's Index is. I am thinking that if we do have the "This Year of Grice" series, perhaps we can have a look at, say 2010 publications having Grice on the title. Perhaps we should work, during 2010, on the year of grice that was 2109. And leave 2010 for next year, i.e. 1011. In that way, we can have the whole cycle. Etc.
ReplyDeleteSee if you can find one published in (2009) and see if we can comment. (I dislike academic articles which are so recondite that it's impossible to track them or retrieve them).
Etc.
I have presented a pretty full Gricean bibliography, primary and secondary. But then I realise there are other priorities, such as ... "catalogue raisonnee" of Grice's publications for example (as per archival material, etc.). Etc.
It's my summer reading: the whole of a previous year's Philosopher's Index. At 10 year intervals I also count off from the subject index, so my last count on Grice was 2006. You can find the 2009 material on line I am told, but have not used this method. I'll look this coming summer. At about 20,000 entries now, the reading takes a little while. Another hobby-moment I have is the count/content for the World Congresses of Philosophy, since Paris 1900. These take longer for me to read since a complete text is harder to find. I don't recall a Grice reference, but the subject matter follows the pattern of the Philosopher's Index which I have previously posted. Possibly there is greater sourcing of non-Western argumentation, but that's just a spelling change.
ReplyDeleteExcellent. In fact, I would LOVE to have an online 'bibliographical' service that could be updated, pretty easy, if boring-to-look, with things that feature "Grice" in title of essay first. Then with "Grice" as "keyword". I can recite from the top of my head:
ReplyDeleteWilson, "Grice on meaning: the ultimate counterexample", Nous -- a delight. Features Grice, "I may be mistaken, but I'm not confused"
Yu, Paul. Grice's program. Philosophy and Linguistics.
Avramides, Anita. Book. Gricean account of communcation.
Chapman, Siobhan. Grice: philosopher and linguist. Book. Macmillan.
Cosenza. Grice's Heritage. Book. Urbino.
Hall, K. ed. Legacy of Grice. Book. Berkeley Linguistics Society.
Davis, "Conversational implicature: the failure of... Grice". Cambridge Studies in philosophy. Book.
Ufortunately we couldn't really count PPGRICE, the Grice festschrift. (It doesn't have Grice in the title strictly -- or does it).
Cohen, L. J. "Some remarks on Grice on the logical particles of logic", in Bar-Hillel.
(it's rare that a philosopher will quote Grice in title of essay -- exegetical studies get an A-, versus the truly creative that you get A+ for, and remember it's publish or perish in some quarters).
Neil, S. Grice. Philosophy and Linguitics.
Wharton, on Grice. Working Papers in Linguistics. UCL
Allott, N. Grice on rationality. Working papers in Linguistics.
Ziff. Grice on meaning. ANALYSIS. An excellent classic.
Black. Grice on meaning. New Literary history. A classic.
Martinich: Black on Grice. Dialectica. Very good.
McAddy (?). Professor Grice on meaning. Mind. Very Very Very Good.
Perhaps we could include SECTIONS on Grice in books which do not feature "Grice" in title. I'm not familiar with those, but I think I have fiches for them elsewhere in the Swimming-Pool Library.
OTHER KEYWORDS like 'implicature', are more of a bore, because, as Horn rather impolitely said, "common or garden implicature" has a sort of dominant gene. It prolifferates. So books with "implicature" on the title of a book, even, are hardly about Grice -- Potts on 'conventional' implicature', Hirschberg on 'scalar implicature', Atlas on 'indeterminacy and implicature', Levinson on 'generalised conversational implicature', Nancy Green's symposium on 'conversational implicature' (symposium of the ACA), etc.
Further for Grice:
Green, "Grice's Frown". Very good.
There should be an easy way to have this in label rubric at bottom of post. I visited a blog that does just that: not on Grice especially, but you can retrieve authors, alphabetically, by means of that rubric. The idea would be to have a good data base, as it were, or bank -- or something.
Keep up the good work, Ian Cargan Dengler! And we should stick first to English and only later do World Congress in Philosophy, where we study Grice in Italian and Talog, etc.