My Hart Belongs to Grice

Speranza

There is a new (as it were) bio of H. L. A. Hart.


I would think there were a few distinctions...

Hart was of a sort of 'rich' background --, from the North of England -- and this "old"
play group that met at All Souls was pretty aristocratic.

Grice was, rather, a 'scholarship boy' as they call them, from the Midlands, and was stuck at Corpus Christi.

And so he just did not socialise with  All Souls (and the 'old' play group that met BEFORE the 'phoney' war).

But Isaiah Berlin indeed thinks that it was in meetings of the old play  group that LINGUISTIC philosophy was created (Berlin et al, Essays on Austin) -- and I would agree.

(It is fascinating to see how Grice's pre-war papers share the approach though -- these are unpublished, on "Negation" and the
"Personal Identity").

So, Grice rather got to know Austin (and his group, as it were) etc. AFTER
the war.

Hart was a member of the new play group too. Hampshire has used  the phrases 'old play
group' and 'new play group').

At points, it would seem as if Grice is considering Hart/Hampshire's
views, as in "Intention, Certainty, and decision" (or something like that) for
"Mind". Note that Grice's (pretty late, 1971) essay is called "Intention and
UNcertainty", rather!

What is fascinating is G. P. Baker's essay on Hart in Hart's
festschrift (Baker also contributed to the GRICE festschrift, ed. Grandy/Warner,
P.G.R.I.C.E.): "Defeasibility and meaning", for indeed, there is a clear
reading alla implicature of what Hart has as inner and outer perspectives of
things like,

"He ought to do it".
And so on.