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--- A LOT OF PEOPLE HAVE HAD DUMMETT as a tutor in Oxford, if you can imagine that. McDowell is now reconsidering the Grice/Dummett interface. McDowell is my favourite Strawsonian and I treasure his contribution on Strawon and Grice in "PS" (Philoophical Subjects", the Strawson Festchrift -- not everyone is as lucky as Grice to have a better titled acronymic festschrift, PGRICE: Philosophical Grounds of Rationality: Intentions, Categories, Ends.).
Of course Dummett is right in respects. Grice SHOULD have read Dummett's "Frege: philosophy of language", but the book was thick beyond recognition. In any case, only now S. Neale and others (Horn, etc.) are reconsidering all that Grice said about 'colour' and 'colouring' in terms of Frege's conventional implicature (or vice versa) so Dummett will be pleased.
My hunch: he was not nominated by Flew as an 'Oxford philosopher' (!). Dummeet IS a genius, in his own ways.
He shared with Anscombe and Murdoch the inclusion by Grice in a note (now deposited in the Grice Papers, Bancroft -- cited by Bancroft). Philosophers who did attend the Play Group meetings. Those who didn't. "No: Murdoch, Anscombe, Dummett". So there.
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The attribution to Grice, "I haven't read Dummett's "Frege: philosophy of language," and I hope I won't" Michael Wrigley, formerly of Leeds, and Trinity, Oxford -- and UC/Berkeley under Grice, told me was Grice's reply to Wrigley's mention of his plan for his PhD dissertation on "Alternative Mind Styles" in Frege and Wittgenstein. Etc. I thought Grice's reply was typical, but you have to see Wrigley delivering the line, and his reaction to this!
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