Today's Favourite Griceian: Alan Lacey

by J. L. Speranza
-- for the Grice Club.

THE OTHER DAY I WAS BROWING the internet (can you do that, legally?) and came across a blog, whose entry read: "this week's concept: implicature". I congratulated the author seeing that, with me, it is the concept of a lifetime. I treasure Mirembe Nantongo's invitiation to a fancy dress party where I attended dressed as "Conversational Implicature" (Horn came as a Truth-Value Gap).

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Anyway, complete with photo, we find at:

http://www.kcl.ac.uk/schools/humanities/depts/philosophy/people/emeritus/lacey.html

"Alan Lacey studied Classics and English in Cambridge (St. Catharine's College). His PhD is in Moral Sciences. He joined Bedford College, London in 1954 as a Lecturer and was promoted in 1973 to Senior Lecturer. From 1984 to 1991 he taught in King's College. After his retirement in 1991, he taught part-time until 1998. His main interest is early Greek philosophy."
Selected publications
•A Dictionary of Philosophy, Routledge 1976 (3rd edition, revised and enlarged 1996)."

-- where he suggests that Grice's frown has been overlooked. And that a rainbow can imply (but not say), 'rain'.


•Modern Philosophers: An Introduction, Routledge 1982.
•Bergson, Routledge 1989.
•Translation and Notes of Philoponus' Commentary on Aristotle, Physics 2, Duckworth 1993.
•Robert Nozick, Acumen 2001.

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Genius!