Grice For Philosophers

--- bY JLS
------- for the GC

THIS WILL SOUND HATEFUL, but it's not meant to! I'm revising, for this joint project with R. B. Jones -- part of which is already available for perusal as the CarnapGrice pdf document by JonesSperanza (c) at Jones's site along with the Appendix pdf by Speranza --.

In looking for strands, and themes, etc. I go from the "Retrospective Epilogue" to the "Retrospective Preface" or "Foreword" (Indeed, Grice entitled this thus, but it was edited out as plain "Foreword" during the publication proceeding).

For in the Retrospective Epilogue he lists these 8 strands, to which we have proposed a further 8, making them 16 -- and he considers, in the same epilogue, three aspects, which are not of main 'substance', but rather, 'method', i.e. they highlight the import of the strands for Grice and the philosopher in general ("the first, if not the last word," Grice has it) -- first page of the Epilogue.

In going back to the Foreword, he notes the primacy of "The William James Lectures", thus deposited, untitled, in the Grice Archive, and he resists the temptation by J. F. Bennett of reordering the whole thing.

And it is to his bracket that I want to bring attention right now.

He explains the reason why he kept the original format -- as per handwritten notes, deposited at the Grice archive, and untitled --:

"[T]he scope and content of the lectures"
[delivered to a philosophical audience --
in the first semester of 1967 at Emerson
Hall, Harvard -- the bi-annual lectures
in memory of philosopher W. James]

"has long been familiar to many PHILOSOPHERS"

i.e. not linguists, anthropologists, or what have you.

"some of whom [philosphers, rather than linguists,
anthropologists, or what have you] may well have been
awaiting an opportunity for a continuous
perusal of the material."

--- Excellent! Puts Grice in his place!