The Petrus book on Grice

by JLS
for the GC

Petrus's collection on Grice assembles fourteen essays on the key topics in Grice's philosophy of language.

The contributors include both philosophers and non-philosophers.

The volume contains an introduction in Grice's overall project, i.e. his general theory of human rationality, and then devotes its attention to the following topics: Grice's impact on the philosophy of the 20th century;

Grice's theory of "meaning", especially the distinction between natural and non-natural meaning and its implications for theory of communicative actions;

the status of implicatures, presuppositions, negations and intrusive implicatures within his theory of conversation;

and finally the semantics-pragmatics distinction which is highly inspired by Grice's work and which has resulted in recent debates concerning minimalist and contextualist semantics.

Contributors include Prof. Atlas of Pomona, Prof. Baker of Glendon, Anne Bedzuidenhout, E. Borg of Reading, S. Chapman of Liverpool, Wayne A. Davis, L. Horn, A. Martinich, M. Green, Nikola Kompa, Klaus Petrus, Christian Plunze, J. Saul and Mandy Simons

Table of Contents

Acknowledgements
Notes on Contributors

Introduction:

Petrus:

"Grice, Philosopher of Language, But More Than That." Cfr. "Philosopher's philosopher".

Chapman:
Grice and the Philosophy of Ordinary Language

Atlas
Intuition, the Paradigm Case Argument, and the Two Dogmas of Kantotelianism: Grice's Defense of the Analytic/Synthetic Distinction and Kripke's Defense of Essentialism;

Bezuidenhout
Grice on Presupposition

Davis
Irregular Negations: Implicature and Idiom Theories

M. Simons
A Gricean View on Intrusive Implicature

J. Saul, of Sheffield
Speaker Meaning, Conversational Implicature, and Calculability

Baker
Some Aspects of Reasons and Rationality

Green
Showing and Meaning: On How We Make Our Ideas Clear

Peturs
Illocution, Perillocution and Communication

Plunze
Speaker Meaning and the Logic of Communicative Acts

Martinich
The Total Content of What a Speaker Means

E. Borg
On Three Theories of Implicature: Default Theory, Relevance Theory and Minimalism;

Kompa
Contextualism in the Philosophy of Language

Horn
WJ--40: Issues in the Investigation of Implicature


KLAUS PETRUS is currently SNSF-Professor of Philosophy at University of Bern, Switzerland. He is co-founder and head of the research group meaning.ch and co-editor of the journal Facta Philosophica. He has written several articles on the philosophy of language and philosophy of mind, and has edited, among others, On Human Persons and Monism.

JAY DAVID ATLAS University of Massachusetts, USA JUDITH BAKER York University, Canada ANNE BEZUIDENHOUT University of South Carolina, USA EMMA BORG University of Reading, UK SIOBHAN CHAPMAN University of Liverpool, UK WAYNE A. DAVIS Georgetown University, USA MITCHELL GREEN University of Virginia, USA LAURENCE R. HORN Yale University, USA AL MARTINICH University of Texas at Austin, USA NIKOLA KOMPA University of Bern, Switzerland CHRISTIAN PLUNZE University of Frankfurt, Germany JENNIFER SAUL University of Sheffield, UK MANDY SIMONS Carnegie Mellon University, USA