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Monday, February 28, 2011

Grice and Peacocke

--- As discussed by Dale in ch. iv to his PhD dissertation:

Indeed, as Dale notes,

"Davidson has never directly discussed his program in terms of the provision of an actual-language relation,"

-- and yet, if you check his fatherhood -- you are impressed. Everybody at a time wanted to be fathered by Davidson! He was a very prolific thesis advisor at Berkeley where Grice was teaching. Oddly, his papers are also deposited, next to Grice's, at the Bancroft. I'm not a Davidsonian -- just a humble Griceian -- but if I were, I would have tried to remedy Davidson's big gap there!

Dale then reassuringly writes:

"but [C. A. B. -- if you must] Peacocke shows how to speak about Davidson's project in those terms.<10>"

The reference being to that 'symposium' held in Oxford, and edited by Evans/McDowell (geniuses). A bit of history will let us know that Peacocke had attended a few seminars at UC/Berkeley in those days; but I wouldn't think he 'socialised' philosophically with Grice back in Oxford. It is a lovely paper by Peacocke, which should be examined carefully ("I never read a paper before I examine it carefully; it prejudices man so" -- Revd. Smith).

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