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Tuesday, June 1, 2010

Aristotelian Society, Not Socratic Club

by JLS
for the GC

NO RECORD OF GRICE talking to the Socratic Club. Record of Joad talking to Socratic Club. A divergence there. O. T. O. H.:

Record of Grice talking to "Aristotelian Society", meeting Cambridge, 1961, "Causal theory of perception" in Proceedings. No record of Joad talking to Aristotelian Society.

O. T. O. H., members of what Grice calls the "Play Group" -- HIS Play Group -- did join the Socratic Club. I read from wiki, and read names: Austin, Hare, and a few others.

"The Oxford Socratic Club met [at Oxford] on Monday
evenings during term from 8.15pm to 10.30pm, with many
undergraduates lingering long afterward. Many of the
most notable figures of Oxford University presented or
responded to papers" -- including [the below], among 'many others':

G.E.M. Anscombe,
Antony Flew [Grice's tutee at St. John's, 1945-7],
Iris Murdoch, Austin Farrer,
A.J. Ayer [cites Grice when he delivered his own "Causal theory of perception" for the Aristotelian Society],
D.M. MacKinnon,
C.E.M. Joad,
E.L. Mascall,
Gabriel Marcel,
Frederick Copleston,
I.M. Crombie,
Basil Mitchell,
R.M. Hare [member of Play Group, in Grice's membership list],
Michael Polanyi,
Gilbert Ryle,
J.L. Austin [LEADER of the Play Group],
Dorothy Sayers.

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