Since Prof. Neale is now in our minds as co-author of an obituary of Grice, we might note that he also wrote a substantial review of Studies in the Ways of Words (Paul Grice and the Philosophy of Language).
Perhaps Speranza, who is doubtless well acquainted with it, can comment on the review.
I see he describes "Vacuous Names" (and three others) as a "minor classic" absent from the collection and encourages its publication in a future collection.
Roger Jones
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ReplyDelete"I see he describes "Vacuous Names" (and three others) as a "minor classic" absent from the collection and encourages its publication in a future collection."
Indeed. "Vacuous Names" has been PARTLY (alas) reprinted in Ostertag, "Definite descriptions", a reader. MIT.
As we know, Jones is particulary interested in the "Vacuous Names" stuff. (I see he has now posted on truth-value gaps on which I will comment soon, I hope). Jones has provided some formalism to "Vacuous Names".
The idea of a volume of "Philosophical Papers", by Grice, is an interesting one. After all, when Austin died they (the literary executors) managed to publish THREE books out of his stuff:
"Sense and sensibilia" (Austin's bad pun on Austen's Sense and Sensibility), ed. by Warnock, only because Austin dedicates a whole chapter to Warnock's booklet on "Berkeley".
"How to do things with words", ed. by Urmson, and by Marina Sbisa, the Italian scholar, in a later reprint. These were the 1955 William James lectures. The originals are deposited at the Bodleian.
"Philosophical papers", including almost everything else. Various editions, being updated.
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So I would propose
Grice,
Philosophical Papers
to be published rightly by the Clarendon (he cannot be _less_ than Austin)
which would include:
"Intention and Uncertainty" (OUP separata, already, offprint, Brit. Ac.)
"Actions and events" -- a little known piece in "Pacific Philosophical Quarterly")
"Aristotle on the multiplicity of being". Also Pacific Philosophical Quarterly. This happens to be another strong interest by Jones, who has provided an Aristotelian symbolism for Grice's izzing and hazzing, elsewhere.
"Vacuous Names", a piece for a Quine festschrift, originally (if a 'festschrift' can be a book on Words and OBJECTions).
"Metaphysics" (co-authored with Strawson and Pears). This early vintage 1957 piece (in Pears, The Nature of metaphysics) escaped Grice's own memory back in 1985, when Grandy/Warner were compiling "The publications of H. P. Grice", to parallel their "The unpublications of H. P. Grice".
----- I have elsewhere in this club referred to each of the items in the Grice Collection, now in the Bancroft Library. There are items which are close to my heart: "How pirots karulise elatically: some simple ways", for example.
In fact, if I were to edit something it would be:
Grice,
"Logic and Conversation"
The Oxford lectures.
--- the problem is that I find his handwriting, beautiful YET unintelligible (in parts, especially when it comes to diacriticals).
These would be the Oxford 1965 lectures, which, to me, improve on the later ones!
Here he is really Kantian, and speaks of "Conversational Candour" as a principle along with "Conversational Benevolence" as the OTHER principle. He is very untechnical about helpfulness (rather than the wordy co-operativeness) and manages to use "implicature" for the first time. The OED which has now acknowledged 'implicature' (via some correspondence in ADS-L) has not yet recognised this. (For that matter, 'implicatura' had been first used by Sidonius, back in the day. See entry "implicatura" in Short/Lewis, "A Latin dictionary".
And so on. Now to truth-value gaps...