Allen Phillips Griffiths on Herbert Paul Grice

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Well, both went to Oxford.

But perhaps the 'on' is hyperbolic.

Phillips Griffiths was advised at Oxford by an author that Grice cites in "Casual theory of perception": H. H. Price.

Phillips Griffiths went to edit a book in the series edited by Grice's friend and colleague, G. J. Warnock (later Sir Geoffrey, Vice-Chancellor of Oxford),

"KNOWLEDGE AND BELIEF"

Note the order: "Knowledge and belief", rather than 'belief and knowledge'.

It may do to revise the table of contents, since I hope Warnock may have something to do with it!

Phillips Griffiths's compilation contains:

The relation of knowing to thinking / J. Cook Wilson
----- Of course Grice loved Cook Wilson, whom I prefer to call "Wilson" and treat the Cook as ornamental. Grice uses Wilson's 'inference schemas' profusely in "Indicative conditionals" (now in WoW -- Way of Words). Phillips Griffiths will go on to EDIT some publication (or other) by Wilson.

The nature of believing / R.B. Braithwaite
--- Braithwaite is a Cambridge man, but Warnock found him analytic enough "along Oxonian lines" to be included in this Reading.

Some considerations about belief / H.H. Price
---- by Phillips Griffiths's advisor then, and author cited by Grice in "Causal theory of perception".

Knowing and believing / H.A. Prichard
---- Both Grice and Phillips Griffiths loved Prichard. Grice calls his theory of intention (British Academy lecture) 'neo-Prichardian' for SOME reason.

Knowledge and belief / Norman Malcolm
---- Grice discussed Norman Malcom in one of the earlier papers in WoW. Notably the idea about 'ordinary language' and how correct it can be. Of course Malcolm was perhaps the 'some' that Austin referred to when, as recollected by Grice, he (Austin) said, "SOME like Witters, but MOORE's _my_ man."

Knowing and not knowing / A.D. Woozley
--- Woozley is cited by Harnish in Harnish's essay on implicature. Woozley like Price belonged to what Owen (in Ryle's obituary in the Aristotelian Society, Proceedings) calls the Ryle group, as opposed to the Saturday morning Play Group led "first by Austin and then by Grice."

On claiming to know / Alan R. White
---- White's claim to fame, for Griceians, is having had to answer Grice's convoluted "Causal theory of perception" (delievered at Cambridge). It was Warnock who cared to reprint (as he should) White's reply to Grice in Warnock's "Philosophy of perception", for the same Reading series.

Knowing and promising / Jonathan Harrison
---- An Oxonian author, as it were.

On belief / A. Phillips Griffiths
---- Allen would hardly use Allen, but his family would ("Allen!")

Is justified true belief knowledge? / Edmund L. Gettier
---- The _locus classicus_ (citing from Plato and Ayer) that Grice has in mind when revising his theory. "He knew the date of the battle of Trafalgar", in WoW. Grice thought, rightly, that Gettier's _standards_ for the use of 'knowledge' were hardly 'ordinary'.

Belief and constraint / Bernard Mayo.
---- Mayo, like Harrison, could be dubbed Oxonian.

And so on.

Phillips Griffiths's later claim to fame, for some, was to edit the prestigious RIP series, where the "Royal" is official ("Royal Institute of Philosophy").