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Sunday, February 27, 2011

What about Grice's fatherhood?

Ditto, J. Dever makes some commentaries, in his blog, and later in his pdf, about Grice's fatherhood, which you can check for yourself at the pdf mentioned in the previous post. Worth checking out. It is not, by all means, complete! But who am I to add? Judith Baker, for example, Chapman spends some time in discussing how impressed she was about Grice's advising for her PhD Berkeley 1976 (?). And of course there are others. I must have all that info elsewhere. The title of Richard Orville Warner's dissertation under Grice at Berkeley, or Grandy's -- I mention this because the literary 'executory' bunch include these three -- AND Alan Dodds Code, who may count as one of Grice's offspring, or not.

Basically, we should distinguish between two stages of Grice's fatherhood:

"My father was an Oxonian". Students Grice had at Oxford. I'm surprised, but won't die because of this, that J. Dever does NOT quote Strawson as tutee of Grice. I would think he was Grice's best son! I learned all about this from Mabbott's lovely book, "Oxford Memories" -- Indeed, apparently Strawson had a shared fatherhood. (Both Mabbott and Grice were Strawson's tutors at St. John's, Oxford). Since most of the blog posts in Dever's blog are rather dated, I do wonder if he still updates the thing -- and one feels like a bit of a snob pointing out that some of his 'sons' may be 'illegtimate', but there you are!

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