Dummett's tutor -- not Grice (but Foster, Flew, and Urmson -- at Christ Church)

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When Professor Sir Michael Anthony Eardley Dummett(admittedly an exceptional case) studied PPE at Christ Church in the late forties, his *politics* tutor was Robert Blake, his *economics* tutor was Roy Harrod (Economics fellow at Christ Church at the time). His *philosophy* tutors (the ones that count) were

J. O. Urmson, -- that Grice quotes extensively. Member of the Play Group.

-- Michael B. Foster, and, oddly enough,

Antony Flew -- himself a tutee with Grice at St. John's -- Almost Grice's first tutee.

Even though his real tutor was G. E. M Anscombe).

Dummett took a paper on “epistemology”, designed by J. L. Austin, which employed set texts which included Plato's "Meno", Aquinas's "De Veritate", Descartes’s "Meditations", the standard Locke/Berkely/ Hume stuff, Kant etc. , and which ended with Freges Basic Laws of Arithmetic.

When Charles Taylor(another exceptional case)studied PPE at Balliol in the Mid fifties( he apparently originally came to Oxford hoping to work on theology with Austin Farrer-at least that what his close friend Hauerwas once told me,) he found the “sub-sub Hume” taught there boring, and eventually found relief studying Merleau Ponty, Heidegger, Marx, Hegel.

Oddly, Taylor ended up, like Dummett, winning an All Souls fellowship.