Essays on Grice -- name index/subject index

Details on the fourteen essays on Grice

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The order of presentation:

1. Jay David Atlas (sometime Fellow of Wolfson, Oxford):

"Grice's Defense of the Analytic-Synthetic Distinction, and Its Unintended Historical Consequences in Twentieth-Century Analytical Philosophy"

---- abstract: read Grice WoW:Essay "In defense of a dogma"


2. Siobhan R. Chapman, official biographer of Grice "philosopher and linguist", for Palgrave:

"Grice and the Philosopher of Ordinary Language"

---- Good to be able to read some critical view by Chapman. Who is 'the philosopher of ordinary language'? I hope she is trusting me not to understand her as thinking that she means Grice!

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3. Judith ("Judy" as Grice affectionately calls her) Baker, sometime PhD student at Berkeley under Grice.

"Some Aspects on Reasons and Retionality"

--- Her recent tirade is that 'rationality' does not involve reasons! (She quotes, for good measure, Grice on thought-transitions and propensions).


4. Aloysius Martinich, Russian emigre, like G. Myro -- taught at Arizona.

"The Total Content of What [an Utterer] Means"

---- Martinich can be genial. In his reprint of Grice, "Logic and Conversation", he wittily notes, "Grice introduces the vernacular/logical form distinction in the first passage of this magisterial lecture never again to touch on it in the body of the same lecture."


5. Mitchell Green,

"Showing and Meaning"

----- Green's claim to fame, "Grice's Frown" discusses to what extent an angry frown by Grice (in 1948 Meaning) may be intentional -- or not.


6. C. Plunze.

"Communicative Acts - With and Without Understanding"

------ Don't fail to!


7. K. Petrus,

"Perillocutionary Acts. A Gricean Approach"

------ "I may be mistaken but I'm not confused!"


8. Laurence R. Horn, Yale linguist, born in New York City. Neo-Gricean.

"William James + 40: Issues in the Investigation of Implicature"

------ there is a pun here on a brandname americain.


9. Anne Bezuidenhout, South Afrikaan.

"Grice on Presupposition"

------ and why he hated her ('presuppositio' is Feminine in Latin)


10. Wayne Davies, author of the infamous, "The failure of Grice" -- published, of course, by Cambridge University Press.

"Irregular Negations: Implicature and Idiom Theories"

---- Idioms: who needs them? They cannot but flout Grice's Conversatioanl Category of Quality.


11. Jennifer Saul, Princeton student and teacher at Sheffield. Feminist woman philosohperess.

"Grice's Calculability Criterion and [Utterer] Meaning"

------ Grice got tired of calculability after someone pointed out to him that one of Hobbes's most boring books was called "Computatio sive Logica".

12. Mandy Simons,

"A Gricean View on Intrusive Implicatures"

----- Or how to lose them with the tub water.


13. Emma Borg:

"Three Theories of Implicature: Default Theory, Relevance and Minimalism"

---- and what's wrong with each! The one Grice endorsed was neither!


14. N. Kompa

"Contextualism in context".


----- Name index: the usual suspects.
----- Subject index: look out for 'disimplicature' and fail.