This below is the text for Grice's entry by Brown in a published source. I love it, because it has Grice as teaching at Seattle till 1990 -- even though he (Grice) died in August 1988.
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Grice, Herbert Paul
British-American, b: 15 March 1913, Birmingham, England, d: 28 August 1990, Berkeley, California. Cat: Linguistic philosopher. Ints: Metaphysics; philosophy of language; ethics; history of philosophy. Educ: Corpus Christi College, Oxford. Infls: Austin, Quine and Kripke. Appts: 1939–67, Fellow of St John’s College, Oxford; 1967, presented William James Lectures at Harvard; 1967–80, Professor of Philosophy, University of California, Berkeley; 1980–84, Visiting Professor, University of Washington at Seattle; 1980–90, Emeritus Professor of Philosophy, University of California, Berkeley.
Main publications:
(1941) ‘Personal identity’, Mind 50.
(1956) (with Strawson) ‘In defense of a dogma’, Philosophical Review 65.
(1957) ‘Meaning’, Philosophical Review 66.
(1961) ‘The causal theory of perception’, Proceedings of the Aristotelian Society, Supplementary Volume.
(1968) ‘Utterer’s meaning, sentence-meaning and word-meaning’, in Foundations of Language 4 (Dordrecht); reprinted in John Searle (ed.), The Philosophy of Language, London: Oxford University Press.
(1969) ‘Vacuous names’, in Donald Davidson and Jaaco Hintikka (eds), Words and Objections: Essays on the Work of W.V.Quine, Dordrecht: Reidel.
(1969) ‘Utterer’s meaning and intentions’, Philosophical Review 78.
(1975) ‘Logic and conversation’, in P.Cole and J.L. Morgan (eds), Syntax and Semantics, vol. 3, Speech Acts.
(1981) ‘Presuppositions and conversational implicature’, in P.Cole (ed.), Radical Pragmatics, New York: Academic.
(1989) Studies in the Way of Words, Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press (includes 1967 William James Lectures and most of the articles that Grice had previously had published).
(1991) The Conception of Value, Oxford: Oxford University Press (the Carus Lectures for 1983; posthumous).
Secondary literature:
Armstrong, D.M. (1971) ‘Meaning and communication’, Philosophical Review.
Black, Max (1973) ‘Meaning and intention: an examination of Grice’s views’, New Literary History 4.
Cole, P. and Morgan, J.L.
(eds) Syntax and Semantics, vol. 3, Speech Acts.
Davidson, D. and Harman, G. (1975) The Logic of Grammar.
Grandy, Richard E. and Warner, Richard (eds) (1986) Philosophical Grounds of Rationality: Intentions, Categories, Ends, Oxford: Clarendon Press (includes a list of Grice’s ‘unpublications’ as well as works by then published under his name).
MacKay, A.F. (1972) ‘Professor Grice’s theory of meaning’, Mind 81.
Ziff, P. (1967) ‘On H.P.Grice’s theory of meaning’, Analysis.
After the death of Austin in 1960, Grice came to the fore as a defender of the notion of a ‘speech-act’ and, in the decades following, he became a significant figure in controversies in the philosophy of language. His William James Lectures, published in schematic form in his ‘Utterer’s meaning’ paper (1967), received much attention in America. Grice stressed the importance of the utterer’s intention and, in particular, the intended response of the auditor. When someone calls out ‘Fire!’ he intends others to try to do certain things as a result of recognizing his intention through his utterance. A language consists of a repertoire of communicative devices that are available to agents. In one of the Lectures, ‘Logic and conversation’ (separately published in 1975), Grice developed the idea of conversational implication. Conversation, he maintained, is subject to rational principles and implications may correctly be drawn from what someone has said which are quite different from those that appear to be licensed by the rules of formal logic. This idea was developed by Strawson. Although he published little when he was at Oxford, he had a considerable influence as a teacher; and through his seminars. Strawson was among his pupils, and through his seminars, which were attended which were attended by sabbatical visitors in Oxford, he influenced many others, including Searle. Although Grice was most influential as a philosopher of language, his interests were wide-ranging. Late in life he returned to a study of ethics and was engaged, with Judith Baker, on producing a book on Kant’s ethics. When he died his many unpublished manuscripts were deposited as the Paul Grice Archives at the University of California at Berkeley.
Sources: Obituary, Independent, 31 Aug 1990.
STUART BROWN
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Grice died -> Grice ceased to exist OR Grice died -> Grice continued to exist in the Afterlife, heaven or hell, or perhaps purgatory.
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Yes. It is a problem, and I may discuss it in separate post. Reviewing what Stuart Brown writes, though, the typo is minor. He has Grice dying in 1990. While Grice died in 1988. I mean, compared to the vagueness when studying Aristotle, etc., it is no big gaffe. My teacher in "Ancient Philosophy" would refer to 'akme', meaning fl. -- i.e flourit, and decrease that 35, and add 35 years. I.e. the life of the philosopher was said to be 70 years, with 35 as the golden mean, as it were.
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