Monday, April 26, 2010

Essays on Grice --

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!

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