Grice on Dummett: "no"

Speranza

--- The reference by Quine, where this suggestion is dropped that the "Play Group" operated by strict rules devised by Austin to 'preclude certain individuals' is Quine,

"The time of my life", MIT, 1985.

---- A good reference here is then Ryle's obit, by Owen, in Aristotlelian Society. Owen is recalling vintage Oxford and how Grice followed Austin in the leadership of the Play Group (on Austin's demise in 1960). Owen wonders about the "Ryle group" and the "Austin (later Grice) group", and he ventures that it was the latter group that attained more of a cult status. And considering why Ryle's interactions with Austin (seeing that they shared a credo for ordinary-language) were so meagre, he indicates that Austin would never allow anyone his senior to attend the Saturday mornings.

----- In his trichotomy of Oxford philosophers (in Grice, "Oxford philosophy, 1948-1970", APA -- Grice Papers) Grice then considers:

yes-philosophers -- the "Play Group": Austin, Grice, Hampshire, Strawson, Warnock.

Along with 'overage' philosophers: Ryle and Hardie. But cfr. Mabbott, Wood, ...

Finally, he has a special category, which he calls "no": Iris Murdoch, Anscombe, Dummett, ...

Cheers.

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