Grice, my favourite neo-Prichardian

Speranza

 J. O. Urmson told Dancy that Austin had attended Prichard's lectures as an undergraduate in the early 1930s, sat right at the front and asked very many questions.

"Eventually," Urmson said,

"Prichard wrote to Austin's tutor in Balliol"

(I’m not sure who that was),

"asking him to persuade Austin

either

(a) not to ask so many questions, or

(b) not to attend at all.

"Austin did neither of these things."

Urmson writes: ‘As a member of the very last generation of undergraduates to attend Prichard's lectures and informal instruction, I learnt to admire his patience as a teacher, his philosophical acuity and, above all, his quite exceptional intellectual honesty and independence.’ (This is in his introduction to his Prichard collection, reprinted in MacAdam, p. x.)