Quinton and Grice

by JLS
for the GC

While we look for further overlap, some more titbits on Lord Quinton, from online sources:

Career

served WWII RAF;

1949-55: Fellow of All Souls College, Oxford.

1955-1978: Fellow of New College, Oxford.

1978-1987: President of Trinity College, Oxford. Since 1979 to 1982: member of the Arts Council of Great Britain. Since 1985 to 1990: chairman of British Library board. FBA: vice president from 1985 to 1986.

1991-2004: President of the Royal Institute of Philosophy.

Publications:

Political Philosophy (ed, 1967 Oxford Readings in philosophy)
The Nature of Things (1973),
Utilitarian Ethics (1973),
The Politics of Imperfection (1978),
Francis Bacon (1980),
Thoughts and Thinkers (1982),
From Wodehouse to Wittgenstein (1998),
Hume (1998)

Some of his essays:
"The apriori"
"The problem of perception" (1955)
"Seeming"
"Review of Gellner, "Words and Things"" for the British Journal for the Philosophy of Science, 1961.