Gricean Female

by J. L. Speranza (male)
-- for the Grice Club.

I SHOULDN'T DISTURB A Griceian philosopheress in progress, but this lady is writing a thesis on all that Jones and I care for:

BonnieJean Kurle, "Reasonable Language: An Integrative Study in Grice's Theories of Meaning and Reasoning."

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Short for: B. Kurle, "Grice on reasoning".

Abstract from:

http://www.familycom.org/bonjee/abstract.htm

"Grice had a unique “constructivist” approach to analysis
whereby related entities α and δ are on a par, allowing
for α to be analyzed in terms of δ in one conceptual scheme and δ
in terms of α in another without any vicious circularity. Grice’s
constructivism also allows for multiple conceptual schemes within
a single ontological scheme (e.g., the semantic). And it entails
that there are no basic entities. By showing that the Doubt and
the Ambiguity both rely on reductionism, and by
demonstrating Grice’s constructivism to be anti-reductionist, I demonstrate that the first two important worries are irrelevant.
Grice’s constructivism entails that whenever there is a ‘rational demand’—a logical or conceptual need for explanatory entities—there is justification for the ‘construction’ of such entities, and of theories that account for their interrelation, by means of a set of ‘construction routines.’"

---- So now you KNOW (Kurle's reference kindly provided by courtesy of J. L. Speranza, today -- last accessed: today).