Grice, Holloway, and Turing, on intelligence.

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Turing was fascinated with the word 'intelligence', which he uses in the title of one of his essays. So was Holloway, who specifically connects the notion to language.
When H. L. A. Hart reviewed Holloway's "Language and Intelligence" for "The Philosophical Quarterly" he has no better idea (indeed) than to quote from Grice's "Meaning"!


John Holloway (1920 – 29 August 1999 at the age of 79) was an English poet, critic and academic. Born in South London and educated at the University of Oxford (New College), he served in the artillery and intelligence during the Second World War and then pursued an academic career at the Universities of Oxford, Aberdeen and Cambridge, where he became a fellow of Queens' College and eventually a professor.

Bibliography (incomplete)

• Philosophy
  • Language and Intelligence (1951)
  • The Victorian Sage (1953)
• Criticism
  • The Charted mirror
  • The Story of the Night (1961)
  • The Colours of Clarity
  • Widening Horizons in English Verse (1966)
  • The Proud Knowledge (1977)
  • Narrative and Structure (1979)
  • The Slumber of Apollo (1983)
• Poetry
  • The Minute and longer poems
  • The Fugue and shorter pieces
  • The Landfallers
  • The Lion Hunt (1964)
  • Wood and windfall (1967)
  • Oxford Book of Local Verses (edited, 1987)
  • Civitatula (1993)

External links

• Obituaries archived by Queens' College

Persondata
Name	Holloway, John
Alternative names
Short description	British writer
Date of birth	1920
Place of birth
Date of death	29 August 1999
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Categories

• English literary critics
• 1999 deaths
• 1920 births
• Alumni of New College, Oxford
• Fellows of Queens' College, Cambridge
• Writers from London
• 20th-century English poets