Blurb of the Palgrave book on Grice at
http://www.palgrave.com/products/title.aspx?is=9780230579088
"Essays on Grice"
"This collection assembles 14 essays on the key topics of meaning and analysis in Grice's philosophy of language."
"The contributors include philosophers -- many of whom have been participants in the various debates concerning Gricean issues."
---- And beyond. Cfr. Grice:
"Mr Poodle is our man in Gricean Studies" (implicature: "Surely he leaves quite a bit to be desired as an Aristotelian scholar")
""Essays on Grice" contains an introduction [to] Grice's overall project, i.e. his general theory of ... rationality."
"It then devotes its attention to the following topics."
"First, Grice's impact on 20th-century philosophy"
"Second, his theory of meaning."
"Third, the status of conversational implicature."
"Fourth, the realm of the pragmatic: minimal semantics/radical pragmatics.
The 14 contributors are, in strict alphabetical order:
ATLAS, Jay David -- educated Wolfson College, Oxford.
BAKER, Judith. Canadian philosopher who earned a PhD at Berkeley under Grice.
BEZUIDENHOUT, Anne. South Afrikaan.
BORG, Emma.
CHAPMAN, Siobhan R. -- biograher of "Grice: philosopher and linguist" for Palgrave.
DAVIS, Wayne A., auhtor of "The failure of Grice".
HORN, Laurence R. WJ-40.
MARTINICH, Aloysius, Russian emigre teaching in Arizona.
GREEN, Mitchell, Author of "Grice's Frown".
KOMPA, Nikola. Author.
PETRUS, Klaus. Author.
PLUNZE, Christian. Author
SAUL, Jennifer -- student at Princeton, teacher at Sheffield. Feminist woman philosopher.
SIMONS, Mandy. Author.
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A valuable contribution to any Gricean library worth her name!
Monday, April 26, 2010
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