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Friday, September 28, 2018

Disimplicature

Speranza

  1. What 'Must' Adds.Matthew Mandelkern - forthcoming - Linguistics and Philosophy.
    There is a difference between the conditions in which one can felicitously use a ‘must’- claim like (1-a) and those in which one can use the corresponding claim without the ‘must’, as in (1-b):(1) a. It must be raining out. b. It is raining out.
    It is difficult to pin down just what this difference amounts to. And it is difficult to account for this difference, since assertions of 'Must p' and assertions of p alone seem to have the same basic goal: namely, communicating that p is true. In this paper I give a new account of the conversational role of ‘must’. I begin by arguing that a ‘must’-claim is felicitous only if there is a shared argument for the proposition it embeds. I then argue that this generalization, which I call Support, can explain the more familiar generalization that ‘must’-claims are felicitous only if the speaker’s evidence for them is in some sense indirect. Finally, I propose a pragmatic derivation of Support as a manner implicature.
  2. Embedded Attitudes.Kyle H. Blumberg & Ben Holguín - forthcoming - Journal of Semantics.
    This paper presents a puzzle involving embedded attitude reports. We resolve the puzzle by arguing that attitude verbs take restricted readings: in some environments the denotation of attitude verbs can be restricted by a given proposition. For example, when these verbs are embedded in the consequent of a conditional, they can be restricted by the proposition expressed by the conditional’s antecedent. We formulate and motivate two conditions on the availability of verb restrictions: (i) a constraint that ties the content of restrictions to the “dynamic effects” of sentential connectives and (ii) a constraint that limits the availability of restriction effects to present tense verbs with first-person subjects. However, we also present some cases that make trouble for these conditions, and outline some possible ways of modifying the view to account for the recalcitrant data. We conclude with a brief discussion of some of the connections between our semantics for attitude verbs and issues concerning epistemic modals and theories of knowledge.
Sep 26th 2018 GMT
  1. A Category Semantics.Paul Symington - 2018 - In Paul Hackett (ed.), Mereologies, Ontologies, and Facets. New York: Lexington Books. pp. 65-85.
    In this paper, I present a categorial theory of meaning which asserts that the meaning of a sentence is the function from the actualization of some potentiality or the potentiality of some actuality to the truth of the sentence. I argue that it builds on the virtues of David Lewis’s Possible World Semantics but advances beyond problems that Lewis’s theory faces with its distinctly Aristotelian turn toward actuality and potentiality.
Sep 25th 2018 GMT
  1. Building Complex Events: The Case of Sicilian Doubly Inflected Construction.Fabio Del Prete & Giuseppina Todaro - forthcoming - Natural Language and Linguistic Theory.
    We examine the Doubly Inflected Construction of Sicilian (DIC; Cardinaletti and Giusti 2001, 2003, Cruschina 2013), in which a motion verb V1 from a restricted set is followed by an event verb V2 and both verbs are inflected for the same person and tense features. The interpretation of DIC involves a complex event which behaves as a single, integrated event by linguistic tests. Based on data drawn from different sources, we argue that DIC is an asymmetrical serial verb construction (Aikhenvald 2006). We propose an analysis of DIC in which V1 and V2 enter the semantic composition as lexical verbs, with V1 contributing a motion event and projecting a theme and a goal argument which are identified, respectively, with an agent and a location argument projected by V2. A morphosyntactic mechanism of feature-spread requires that the person and tense features be realized both on V1 and on V2, while, semantically, these features are interpreted only once, in a position from which they take scope over the complex predicate resulting from the combination of V1 and V2. The semantic analysis is based on an operation of event concatenation, defined over spatio-temporally contiguous events which share specific participants, and is implemented in a neo-Davidsonian framework (Parsons 1990).
Sep 24th 2018 GMT
  1. Knowledge-Yielding Communication.Andrew Peet - forthcoming - Philosophical Studies.
    A satisfactory theory of linguistic communication must explain how it is that, through the interpersonal exchange of auditory, visual, and tactile stimuli, the communicative preconditions for the acquisition of testimonial knowledge regularly come to be satisfied. Without an account of knowledge-yielding communication this success condition for linguistic theorizing is left opaque, and we are left with an incomplete understanding of testimony, and communication more generally, as a source of knowledge. This paper argues that knowledge-yielding communication should be modelled on knowledge itself. It is argued that knowledge-yielding communication occurs iff interlocutors coordinate on truth values in a non-lucky and non-deviant way. This account is able to do significant explanatory work: it sheds light on the nature of referential communication, and it allows us to capture, in an informative way, the sense in which interlocutors must entertain similar propositions in order to communicate successfully.
  2. Gricean Communication, Language Development, and Animal Minds.Richard Moore - forthcoming - Philosophy Compass.
    Humans alone acquire language. According to one influen- tial school of thought, we do this because we possess a uniquely human ability to act with and attribute “Gricean” communicative intentions. A challenge for this view is that attributing communicative intent seems to require cognitive abilities that infant language learners lack. After considering a range of responses to this challenge, I argue that infant language development can be explained, because Gricean communication is cognitively less demanding than many suppose. However, a consequence of this is that abilities for Gricean communication are unlikely to be uniquely human.
Sep 23rd 2018 GMT
  1. The Importance of Being Erroneous.Nils Kürbis - forthcoming - Australasian Philosophical Review 2 (3).
    This is a commentary on MM McCabe's "First Chop your logos... Socrates and the sophists on language, logic, and development". In her paper MM analyses Plato's Euthydemos, in which Plato tackles the problem of falsity in a way that takes into account the speaker and complements the Sophist's discussion of what is said. The dialogue looks as if it is merely a demonstration of the silly consequences of eristic combat. And so it is. But a main point of MM's paper is that there is serious philosophy in the Euthydemos, too. MM argues that to counter the sophist brothers Euthydemos and Dionysodoros, Socrates points out that that there are different aspects to the verb 'to say' that run in parallel to the different aspects of the very 'to learn'. So just as there is continuity rather than ambiguity between 'to learn' and 'to understand', so there is continuity between the different aspects of saying. Thus Socrates puts forward a teleological account of both learning and meaning. Following up on some of MM's thoughts, I argue that the sophists subscribe, despite appearance, to a theory of meaning that respects serious and widely accepted philosophical theses on meaning. Forthcoming in the Australasian Philosophical Review. The curator of the volume is Fiona Leigh, and the committee also has Hugh Benson and Tim Clarke. You can find MM's paper as well as the commentaries by Nicholas Denyer and Russell E. Jones and Ravi Sharma (and myself) by registering.
Sep 22nd 2018 GMT
  1. Cross-World Comparatives for Modal Realists.Robert Michels - 2018 - Organon F 25 (3):368-391.
    Divers (2014) argues that a Lewisian theory of modality which includes both counterpart theory and modal realism cannot account for the truth of certain intuitively true modal sentences involving cross-world comparatives. The main purpose of this paper is to defend the Lewisian theory against Divers’s challenge by developing a response strategy based on a degree-theoretic treatment of comparatives and by showing that this treatment is compatible with the theory.
Sep 21st 2018 GMT
  1. Might Do Better: Flexible Relativism and the QUD.Bob Beddor & Andy Egan - 2018 - Semantics and Pragmatics 11.
    The past decade has seen a protracted debate over the semantics of epistemic modals. According to contextualists, epistemic modals quantify over the possibilities compatible with some contextually determined group’s information. Relativists often object that contextualism fails to do justice to the way we assess utterances containing epistemic modals for truth or falsity. However, recent empirical work seems to cast doubt on the relativist’s claim, suggesting that ordinary speakers’ judgments about epistemic modals are more closely in line with contextualism than relativism (Knobe & Yalcin 2014; Khoo 2015). This paper furthers the debate by reporting new empirical research revealing a previously overlooked dimension of speakers’ truth-value judgments concerning epistemic modals. Our results show that these judgments vary systematically with the question under discussion in the conversational context in which the utterance is being assessed. We argue that this ‘QUD effect’ is difficult to explain if contextualism is true, but is readily explained by a suitably flexible form of relativism.
  2. Semantic Variance.Martín Abreu Zavaleta - 2018 - Dissertation, New York University
    This dissertation argues for Semantic Variance, the thesis that nearly every utterance is such that there is no proposition that more than one languge user takes to be that utterance's truth-conditional content. I argue that Semantic Variance is problematic for standard theories concerning the nature of communication, the epistemic significance of ordinary disputes, the semantics of speech reports, and the nature of linguistic competence. In response to the problems arising from the truth of Semantic Variance, I develop new accounts of the transmission of relevant information, ordinary disputes, and the semantics of speech reports. Towards the end of the dissertation I outline a pluralistic account about the nature of communication and linguistic competence.
  3. The Adverbial Theory of Numbers: Some Clarifications.Joongol Kim - forthcoming - Synthese:1-20.
    In a forthcoming paper in this journal, entitled “Bad company objection to Joongol Kim’s adverbial theory of numbers”, Namjoong Kim presents an ingenious Russell-style paradox based on an analogue of Kim’s definition of the number 1, and argues that Kim’s theory needs to provide a criterion of demarcation between acceptable and unacceptable definitions of adverbial entities. This paper addresses this ‘bad company’ objection and some other related issues concerning Kim’s adverbial theory by clarifying the purposes and uses of the formal framework of the theory.
  4. Easy Ontology Without Deflationary Metaontology.Daniel Z. Korman - forthcoming - Philosophy and Phenomenological Research.
    This is a contribution to a symposium on Amie Thomasson’s Ontology Made Easy (2015). Thomasson defends two deflationary theses: that philosophical questions about the existence of numbers, tables, properties, and other disputed entities can all easily be answered, and that there is something wrong with prolonged debates about whether such objects exist. I argue that the first thesis (properly understood) does not by itself entail the second. Rather, the case for deflationary metaontology rests largely on a controversial doctrine about the possible meanings of ‘object’. I challenge Thomasson's argument for that doctrine, and I make a positive case for the availability of the contested, unrestricted use of ‘object’.

Disimplicature

Speranza

  1. What 'Must' Adds.Matthew Mandelkern - forthcoming - Linguistics and Philosophy.
    There is a difference between the conditions in which one can felicitously use a ‘must’- claim like (1-a) and those in which one can use the corresponding claim without the ‘must’, as in (1-b):(1) a. It must be raining out. b. It is raining out.
    It is difficult to pin down just what this difference amounts to. And it is difficult to account for this difference, since assertions of 'Must p' and assertions of p alone seem to have the same basic goal: namely, communicating that p is true. In this paper I give a new account of the conversational role of ‘must’. I begin by arguing that a ‘must’-claim is felicitous only if there is a shared argument for the proposition it embeds. I then argue that this generalization, which I call Support, can explain the more familiar generalization that ‘must’-claims are felicitous only if the speaker’s evidence for them is in some sense indirect. Finally, I propose a pragmatic derivation of Support as a manner implicature.
  2. Embedded Attitudes.Kyle H. Blumberg & Ben Holguín - forthcoming - Journal of Semantics.
    This paper presents a puzzle involving embedded attitude reports. We resolve the puzzle by arguing that attitude verbs take restricted readings: in some environments the denotation of attitude verbs can be restricted by a given proposition. For example, when these verbs are embedded in the consequent of a conditional, they can be restricted by the proposition expressed by the conditional’s antecedent. We formulate and motivate two conditions on the availability of verb restrictions: (i) a constraint that ties the content of restrictions to the “dynamic effects” of sentential connectives and (ii) a constraint that limits the availability of restriction effects to present tense verbs with first-person subjects. However, we also present some cases that make trouble for these conditions, and outline some possible ways of modifying the view to account for the recalcitrant data. We conclude with a brief discussion of some of the connections between our semantics for attitude verbs and issues concerning epistemic modals and theories of knowledge.
Sep 26th 2018 GMT
  1. A Category Semantics.Paul Symington - 2018 - In Paul Hackett (ed.), Mereologies, Ontologies, and Facets. New York: Lexington Books. pp. 65-85.
    In this paper, I present a categorial theory of meaning which asserts that the meaning of a sentence is the function from the actualization of some potentiality or the potentiality of some actuality to the truth of the sentence. I argue that it builds on the virtues of David Lewis’s Possible World Semantics but advances beyond problems that Lewis’s theory faces with its distinctly Aristotelian turn toward actuality and potentiality.
Sep 25th 2018 GMT
  1. Building Complex Events: The Case of Sicilian Doubly Inflected Construction.Fabio Del Prete & Giuseppina Todaro - forthcoming - Natural Language and Linguistic Theory.
    We examine the Doubly Inflected Construction of Sicilian (DIC; Cardinaletti and Giusti 2001, 2003, Cruschina 2013), in which a motion verb V1 from a restricted set is followed by an event verb V2 and both verbs are inflected for the same person and tense features. The interpretation of DIC involves a complex event which behaves as a single, integrated event by linguistic tests. Based on data drawn from different sources, we argue that DIC is an asymmetrical serial verb construction (Aikhenvald 2006). We propose an analysis of DIC in which V1 and V2 enter the semantic composition as lexical verbs, with V1 contributing a motion event and projecting a theme and a goal argument which are identified, respectively, with an agent and a location argument projected by V2. A morphosyntactic mechanism of feature-spread requires that the person and tense features be realized both on V1 and on V2, while, semantically, these features are interpreted only once, in a position from which they take scope over the complex predicate resulting from the combination of V1 and V2. The semantic analysis is based on an operation of event concatenation, defined over spatio-temporally contiguous events which share specific participants, and is implemented in a neo-Davidsonian framework (Parsons 1990).
Sep 24th 2018 GMT
  1. Knowledge-Yielding Communication.Andrew Peet - forthcoming - Philosophical Studies.
    A satisfactory theory of linguistic communication must explain how it is that, through the interpersonal exchange of auditory, visual, and tactile stimuli, the communicative preconditions for the acquisition of testimonial knowledge regularly come to be satisfied. Without an account of knowledge-yielding communication this success condition for linguistic theorizing is left opaque, and we are left with an incomplete understanding of testimony, and communication more generally, as a source of knowledge. This paper argues that knowledge-yielding communication should be modelled on knowledge itself. It is argued that knowledge-yielding communication occurs iff interlocutors coordinate on truth values in a non-lucky and non-deviant way. This account is able to do significant explanatory work: it sheds light on the nature of referential communication, and it allows us to capture, in an informative way, the sense in which interlocutors must entertain similar propositions in order to communicate successfully.
  2. Gricean Communication, Language Development, and Animal Minds.Richard Moore - forthcoming - Philosophy Compass.
    Humans alone acquire language. According to one influen- tial school of thought, we do this because we possess a uniquely human ability to act with and attribute “Gricean” communicative intentions. A challenge for this view is that attributing communicative intent seems to require cognitive abilities that infant language learners lack. After considering a range of responses to this challenge, I argue that infant language development can be explained, because Gricean communication is cognitively less demanding than many suppose. However, a consequence of this is that abilities for Gricean communication are unlikely to be uniquely human.
Sep 23rd 2018 GMT
  1. The Importance of Being Erroneous.Nils Kürbis - forthcoming - Australasian Philosophical Review 2 (3).
    This is a commentary on MM McCabe's "First Chop your logos... Socrates and the sophists on language, logic, and development". In her paper MM analyses Plato's Euthydemos, in which Plato tackles the problem of falsity in a way that takes into account the speaker and complements the Sophist's discussion of what is said. The dialogue looks as if it is merely a demonstration of the silly consequences of eristic combat. And so it is. But a main point of MM's paper is that there is serious philosophy in the Euthydemos, too. MM argues that to counter the sophist brothers Euthydemos and Dionysodoros, Socrates points out that that there are different aspects to the verb 'to say' that run in parallel to the different aspects of the very 'to learn'. So just as there is continuity rather than ambiguity between 'to learn' and 'to understand', so there is continuity between the different aspects of saying. Thus Socrates puts forward a teleological account of both learning and meaning. Following up on some of MM's thoughts, I argue that the sophists subscribe, despite appearance, to a theory of meaning that respects serious and widely accepted philosophical theses on meaning. Forthcoming in the Australasian Philosophical Review. The curator of the volume is Fiona Leigh, and the committee also has Hugh Benson and Tim Clarke. You can find MM's paper as well as the commentaries by Nicholas Denyer and Russell E. Jones and Ravi Sharma (and myself) by registering.
Sep 22nd 2018 GMT
  1. Cross-World Comparatives for Modal Realists.Robert Michels - 2018 - Organon F 25 (3):368-391.
    Divers (2014) argues that a Lewisian theory of modality which includes both counterpart theory and modal realism cannot account for the truth of certain intuitively true modal sentences involving cross-world comparatives. The main purpose of this paper is to defend the Lewisian theory against Divers’s challenge by developing a response strategy based on a degree-theoretic treatment of comparatives and by showing that this treatment is compatible with the theory.
Sep 21st 2018 GMT
  1. Might Do Better: Flexible Relativism and the QUD.Bob Beddor & Andy Egan - 2018 - Semantics and Pragmatics 11.
    The past decade has seen a protracted debate over the semantics of epistemic modals. According to contextualists, epistemic modals quantify over the possibilities compatible with some contextually determined group’s information. Relativists often object that contextualism fails to do justice to the way we assess utterances containing epistemic modals for truth or falsity. However, recent empirical work seems to cast doubt on the relativist’s claim, suggesting that ordinary speakers’ judgments about epistemic modals are more closely in line with contextualism than relativism (Knobe & Yalcin 2014; Khoo 2015). This paper furthers the debate by reporting new empirical research revealing a previously overlooked dimension of speakers’ truth-value judgments concerning epistemic modals. Our results show that these judgments vary systematically with the question under discussion in the conversational context in which the utterance is being assessed. We argue that this ‘QUD effect’ is difficult to explain if contextualism is true, but is readily explained by a suitably flexible form of relativism.
  2. Semantic Variance.Martín Abreu Zavaleta - 2018 - Dissertation, New York University
    This dissertation argues for Semantic Variance, the thesis that nearly every utterance is such that there is no proposition that more than one languge user takes to be that utterance's truth-conditional content. I argue that Semantic Variance is problematic for standard theories concerning the nature of communication, the epistemic significance of ordinary disputes, the semantics of speech reports, and the nature of linguistic competence. In response to the problems arising from the truth of Semantic Variance, I develop new accounts of the transmission of relevant information, ordinary disputes, and the semantics of speech reports. Towards the end of the dissertation I outline a pluralistic account about the nature of communication and linguistic competence.
  3. The Adverbial Theory of Numbers: Some Clarifications.Joongol Kim - forthcoming - Synthese:1-20.
    In a forthcoming paper in this journal, entitled “Bad company objection to Joongol Kim’s adverbial theory of numbers”, Namjoong Kim presents an ingenious Russell-style paradox based on an analogue of Kim’s definition of the number 1, and argues that Kim’s theory needs to provide a criterion of demarcation between acceptable and unacceptable definitions of adverbial entities. This paper addresses this ‘bad company’ objection and some other related issues concerning Kim’s adverbial theory by clarifying the purposes and uses of the formal framework of the theory.
  4. Easy Ontology Without Deflationary Metaontology.Daniel Z. Korman - forthcoming - Philosophy and Phenomenological Research.
    This is a contribution to a symposium on Amie Thomasson’s Ontology Made Easy (2015). Thomasson defends two deflationary theses: that philosophical questions about the existence of numbers, tables, properties, and other disputed entities can all easily be answered, and that there is something wrong with prolonged debates about whether such objects exist. I argue that the first thesis (properly understood) does not by itself entail the second. Rather, the case for deflationary metaontology rests largely on a controversial doctrine about the possible meanings of ‘object’. I challenge Thomasson's argument for that doctrine, and I make a positive case for the availability of the contested, unrestricted use of ‘object’.

Monday, September 24, 2018

Disimplicature

Speranza

GMT
  1. How to Unify.Nicholas K. Jones - forthcoming - Ergo: An Open Access Journal of Philosophy.
    This paper evaluates the argument for the contradictoriness of unity, that be- gins Priest’s recent book One. The argument is seen to fail because it does not adequately differentiate between different forms of unity. This diagnosis of the argument’s failure is used as a basis for two consistent accounts of unity. The paper concludes by arguing that reality contains two absolutely fundamental and unanalysable forms of unity, which are in principle presupposed by any theory of anything. These fundamental forms of unity are closely related to the unity of propositions and facts.
  2. Abilities.Romy Jaster - forthcoming - Berlin, New York: deGruyter.

  3. An Acquittal for Epistemicism.Hesam Mohamadi - forthcoming - International Journal for the Semiotics of Law - Revue Internationale de Sémiotique Juridique.
    Scott Soames argues that consideration of the practice of legal judgement gives us good reason to favor the partial-definition/context-sensitive theory of vagueness against epistemicism. Despite the fact that the value of power-delegation through vagueness is evidenced in practice, Soames says, epistemicism cannot account for it theoretically, while the partial-definition/context-sensitive theory is capable of it. In this paper, I examine the two possible arguments against epistemicism that can be extracted from Soames’s account: (i) an argument based on unknown obligations, and (ii) an argument based on power-delegation through vagueness. The first argument tries to convince us that, as based on epistemicism, the law has already decided the borderline cases, so that judges have obligatory decisions even in such cases: therefore epistemicism is inconsistent with the discretion of judges in borderline cases. I show that even if we sympathize with Soames’s intuitions concerning the legal practice, the argument he offers is not conclusive since it is either invalid, unsound, or paradoxical. The second argument holds that only the gaps which the partial-definition/context-sensitive theory predicts give judges the possibility of lawmaking in borderline cases. However, by categorizing the vague laws as imperfect laws, the judges can claim the right of lawmaking without any need to refer to gaps in the law. By neutralizing these arguments, I argue that epistemicism is able to explain the phenomena just as well as the partial-definition/context-sensitive theory.
Sep 18th 2018 GMT
  1. Truth, Predication and a Family of Contingent Paradoxes.Francesco Orilia & Gregory Landini - forthcoming - Journal of Philosophical Logic:1-24.
    In truth theory one aims at general formal laws governing the attribution of truth to statements. Gupta’s and Belnap’s revision-theoretic approach provides various well-motivated theories of truth, in particular T* and T#, which tame the Liar and related paradoxes without a Tarskian hierarchy of languages. In property theory, one similarly aims at general formal laws governing the predication of properties. To avoid Russell’s paradox in this area a recourse to type theory is still popular, as testified by recent work in formal metaphysics by Williamson and Hale. There is a contingent Liar that has been taken to be a problem for type theory. But this is because this Liar has been presented without an explicit recourse to a truth predicate. Thus, type theory could avoid this paradox by incorporating such a predicate and accepting an appropriate theory of truth. There is however a contingent paradox of predication that more clearly undermines the viability of type theory. It is then suggested that a type-free property theory is a better option. One can pursue it, by generalizing the revision-theoretic approach to predication, as it has been done by Orilia with his system P*, based on T*. Although Gupta and Belnap do not explicitly declare a preference for T# over T*, they show that the latter has some advantages, such as the recovery of intuitively acceptable principles concerning truth and a better reconstruction of informal arguments involving this notion. A type-free system based on T# rather than T* extends these advantages to predication and thus fares better than P* in the intended applications of property theory.
  2. Conditionals.Anthony Gillies - 2017 - In Bob Hale, Crispin Wright & Alexander Miller (eds.), A Companion to the Philosophy of Language.
    This is a handbook article about conditionals.
  3. Propositions Supernaturalized.Lorraine Juliano Keller - 2018 - In Jerry L. Walls & Trent Dougherty (eds.), Two Dozen (or so) Arguments for God. New York, NY, USA: Oxford University Press. pp. 11-28.
    The Theistic Argument from Intentionality (TAI) is a venerable argument for the existence of God from the existence of eternal truths. The argument relies, inter alia, on the premises that (i) truth requires representation, and that (ii) non-derivative representation is a function of, and only of, minds. If propositions are the fundamental bearers of truth and falsity, then these premises entail that propositions (or at least their representational properties) depend on minds. Although it is widely thought that psychologism—the view that the fundamental truth-bearers are mind-dependent—was refuted by Frege, a psychologistic view of propositions has been undergoing a revival. However, this new psychologism suffers from a problem of scarcity—finite minds cannot generate enough thoughts to play the role of fundamental truth-bearers. This objection paves the way for a revised version of the TAI: only an infinite mind can furnish enough thoughts to play the role of propositions.
  4. Negation on the Australian Plan.Franz Berto & Greg Restall - forthcoming - Journal of Philosophical Logic.
    We present and defend the Australian Plan semantics for negation. This is a comprehensive account, suitable for a variety of different logics. It is based on two ideas. The first is that negation is an exclusion-expressing device: we utter negations to express incompatibilities. The second is that, because incompatibility is modal, negation is a modal operator as well. It can, then, be modelled as a quantifier over points in frames, restricted by accessibility relations representing compatibilities and incompatibilities between such points. We defuse a number of objections to this Plan, raised by supporters of the American Plan for negation, in which negation is handled via a many-valued semantics. We show that the Australian Plan has substantial advantages over the American Plan.
Sep 16th 2018 GMT
  1. Probability for the Revision Theory of Truth.Catrin Campbell-MooreLeon Horsten & Hannes Leitgeb - forthcoming - Journal of Philosophical Logic:1-26.
    We investigate how to assign probabilities to sentences that contain a type-free truth predicate. These probability values track how often a sentence is satisfied in transfinite revision sequences, following Gupta and Belnap’s revision theory of truth. This answers an open problem by Leitgeb which asks how one might describe transfinite stages of the revision sequence using such probability functions. We offer a general construction, and explore additional constraints that lead to desirable properties of the resulting probability function. One such property is Leitgeb’s Probabilistic Convention T, which says that the probability of φ equals the probability that φ is true.
  2. Rethinking Revision.P. D. Welch - forthcoming - Journal of Philosophical Logic:1-18.
    We sketch a broadening of the Gupta-Belnap notion of a circular or revision theoretic definition into that of a more generalized form incorporating ideas of Kleene’s generalized or higher type recursion. This thereby connects the philosophically motivated, and derived, notion of a circular definition with an older form of definition by recursion using functionals, that is functions of functions, as oracles. We note that Gupta and Belnap’s notion of ‘categorical in L’ can be formulated in at least one of these schemes.
Sep 15th 2018 GMT
  1. Thinking in and About Time: A Dual Systems Perspective on Temporal Cognition.Christoph Hoerl & Teresa McCormack - forthcoming - Behavioral and Brain Sciences.
    We outline a dual systems approach to temporal cognition, which distinguishes between two cognitive systems for dealing with how things unfold over time – a temporal updating system and a temporal reasoning system – of which the former is both phylogenetically and ontogenetically more primitive than the latter, and which are at work alongside each other in adult human cognition. We describe the main features of each of the two systems, the types of behavior the more primitive temporal updating system can support, and the respects in which it is more limited than the temporal reasoning system. We then use the distinction between the two systems to interpret findings in comparative and developmental psychology, arguing that animals operate only with a temporal updating system and that children start out doing so too, before gradually becoming capable of thinking and reasoning about time. After this, we turn to adult human cognition and suggest that our account can also shed light on a specific feature of our everyday thinking about time that has been the subject of debate in the philosophy of time, which consists in a tendency to think about the nature of time itself in a way that appears ultimately self-contradictory. We conclude by considering the topic of intertemporal choice, and argue that drawing the distinction between temporal updating and temporal reasoning is also useful in the context of characterising two distinct mechanisms for delaying gratification.
Sep 14th 2018 GMT
  1. Understanding Evans.Rick Grush - manuscript
    This paper is largely exegetical/interpretive. My goal is to demonstrate that some criticisms that have been leveled against the program Gareth Evans constructs in The Varieties of Reference (Evans 1980, henceforth VR) misfire because they are based on misunderstandings of Evans’ position. First I will be discussing three criticisms raised by Tyler Burge (Burge, 2010). The first has to do with Evans’ arguments to the effect that a causal connection between a belief and an object is insufficient for that belief to be about that object. A key part of Evans’ argument is to carefully distinguish considerations relevant to the semantics of language from considerations relevant to the semantics (so to speak) of thought or belief (to make the subsequent discussion easier, I will henceforth use ‘thought’ as a blanket term for the relevant mental states, including belief). I will argue that Burge’s criticisms depend on largely not taking account of Evans’ distinctions. Second, Burge criticizes Evans’ account of ‘informational content’ taking it to be inconsistent. I will show that the inconsistency Burge finds depends entirely on a misreading of the doctrine. Finally, Burge takes Evans to task for a perceived over-intellectualization in a key aspect of his doctrine. Burge incorrectly reads Evans as requiring that the subject holding a belief be engaged in certain overly intellectual endeavors, when in fact Evans is only attributing these endeavors to theorists of such a subject. Next, I turn to two criticisms leveled by John Campbell (Campbell, 1999). I will argue that Campbell’s criticisms are based on misunderstandings – though they do hit at deeper elements of Evans’ doctrine. First, Campbell reads Evans’ account of demonstrative thought as requiring that the subject’s information link to an object allows her to directly locate that object in space. Campbell constructs a case in which one tomato (a) is, because of an angled mirror, incorrectly seen as being at a location that happens to be occupied by an identical tomato (b). Campbell claims that Evans’ doctrines require us to conclude that the subject cannot have a demonstrative thought about the seen tomato (a), though it seems intuitively that such a subject would be able to have a demonstrative thought about that tomato, despite its location is inaccurately seen. I show that Evans’ position in fact allows that the subject can have a demonstrative thought about the causal-source tomato in this case because his account does not require that the location of demonstratively identified objects be immediately accurately assessed. What is crucial is that the subject have the ability to accurately discover the location. Second, Campbell criticizes Evans’ notion of a fundamental level of thought. I show that this criticism hinges on view of the nature and role of the fundamental level of thought that mischaracterizes Evans’ treatment of the notion. 
Sep 13th 2018 GMT
  1. Open Questions and Epistemic Necessity.Brett Sherman - forthcoming - The Philosophical Quarterly.
    Why can I not appropriately utter 'It must be raining' while standing outside in the rain, even though every world consistent with my knowledge is one in which it is raining? The common response to this problem is to hold that epistemic 'must', in addition to quantifying over epistemic possibilities, carries some additional evidential information concerning the source of one's evidence. I argue that this is a mistake: epistemic modals are mere quantifiers over epistemic possibilities. My central claim is that the seeming anomaly of the data above arises from a mistaken conception of what a possibility is. Instead of conceiving of possibilities as possible worlds, I argue that we should conceive of possibilities as answers to open questions.
  2. Wird Schon Stimmen! A Degree Operator Analysis of Schon.Malte Zimmermann - forthcoming - Journal of Semantics.

  3. Against the Speaker-Intention Theory of Demonstratives.Christopher Gauker - forthcoming - Linguistics and Philosophy:1-21.
    It is commonly supposed that an utterance of a demonstrative, such as “that”, refers to a given object only if the speaker intends it to refer to that object. This paper poses three challenges to this theory. First, the theory threatens to beg the question by defining the content of the speaker’s intention in terms of reference. Second, the theory makes psychologically implausible demands on the speaker. Third, the theory entails that there can be no demonstratives in thought.

Tuesday, September 18, 2018

Why Grice loved bridge

Why Grice loved chess

Why Grice loved cricket

LIST OF ALL PHILOSOPHERS CITED BY GRICE IN BOTH HIS PUBLICATIONS AND HIS UNPUBLICATIONS

Grice's mastery of classical Greek

Grice's way of words -- was it unique?

Why disimplicature matters to philosophy

Grice on 'implicature' and 'disimplicature'

The role of Herbert Grice's non-conformism in the education of his son, H. P. Grice

The role of Mabel Fenton in the education of H. P. Grice

What Grice learned at Clifton

Why Grice loved Clifton but sent his own children to 'ordinary' schools

Why Grice loved Oxford

Grice on redbrick unis

Why Grice disliked Witters

Why Grice disliked publishing

Why Grice's 'at-homes' at his villa up the Berkeley hills are the equivalent of his meetings with Austin's playgroup at Oxford

"In-Homes" at Grice's Villa up the Berkeley Hills

Grice's first day at Berkeley

Why Grice made the best of his moving the New World

Why Grice disliked moving to the New World

Checklist of all English philosophers Grice philosophised with at Oxford -- alphabetical

Key moments in 20th-century analytic philosophy: P. F. Strawson is adjudicated as tutee H. P. Grice at St. John's

Grice's participation in Austin's second playgroup at St. John's, Oxford -- 'where we looked like a bunch of businessmen'

Grice's personal relationship with J. L. Austin: non-existent

Why Grice Thought Of Himself Primarily As An Oxonian Philosopher

Grice as Tutorial Fellow in Philosophy at St. John's, Oxford

Grice as University Lecturer, Oxford

Grice's time at Merton -- and his meeting with K. W. Grice

What Grice learned from his first (and only) tutor W. H. R. Hardie

Everything Grice learned at The House (Corpus Christi)

Why Grice disliked Rossall

Why Grice went by "H. P."

Why Grice was cremated

Why there is a Grice Bench outside Moses Hall at Berkeley

Grice's ego

Why Grice thought that Heidegger was the greatest living philosopher

Why Grice never cared about Continental Philosophy

H. P. Grice: A Catalogue Raisonné, Being A Chronological Combined Checklist Of His Publications And Unpublications

Speranza

H. P. Grice: A Catalogue Raisonné, Being A Chronological Combined Checklist Of His Publications And Unpublications

Have you noted that sometimes people -- Griceians, I mean -- do not seem to know how to quote from a Grice 'unpublication'?

Here is some advice as to how to combine Grice's publications (say, his "Logic and Conversation") with his unpublications (say, his "Logic and Conversation").

And, to use a Griceianism, 'at one fell swoop'!


What follows are the combined publications and unpublications by H. P. Grice -- in chronological order. 


One good thing about H. P. Grice is that he falls under the Keyword: "20th-century Philosophy." Born in 1913, died in 1988. This makes things neat.

Grice, H. P. (1938). 'Negation and privation,' The H. P. Grice Papers, BANC MSS 90/135c, The Bancroft Library, University of California, Berkeley. Grice kept an interest on negation, especially after his tuttee P. F. Strawson made some awful remarks about it in "Introduction to Logical Theory"!

It is not clear why Grice would be interested in an 'empiricist' account of 'negation' (and technically, 'negation' and 'privation') back in 1938. Most likely after reading Aristotle. Most likely upon reflecting on Greek, and the 'a-' particle. Or most likely for some other reason!

Grice, H. P. (1941). 'Personal identity,' Mind. Repr. in J. Perry, Personal Identity. Berkeley, CA: University of California Press. Grice is interested in refuting Gallie, and using Broad to systematise different approaches to the analysis of 'personal identity,' choosing a 'logical-construction' approach. 

It is not clear why Grice would be interested in "Someone" sentences. He is not specifically interested in what Anscombe would have as "I." Grice's analysans is "Someone heard a noise." It could well be his brother Dereck!

Grice, H. P. (1948). 'Meaning,' Repr. in WoW as one of the Essays in Part II, "Semantics and Metaphysics,". Previously published in "The Philosophical Review" in 1957 (from a typed version by Anne Strawson of Grice's original handwritten manuscript). Grice is interested in the lexeme 'meaning,' as misused by certain philosophers. The only philosopher he cares to quote in this essay is C. L. Stevenson, whose "Ethics and Language," was becoming popular in Oxford.

It is good to think that Grice had read Peirce and was tired of his (Peirce's techno-krypticisms). Grice, being English, finds English philosophers should be concerned with 'mean,' rather. Oddly, in his 'Retrospective Epilogue,' written ages later, Grice does use 'signification,' which shows that he never ceased being a 'classicist'!

Grice, H. P. (1950). 'Dispositions and intentions,' The H. P. Grice Papers, BANC MSS 90/135c, The Bancroft Library, The University of California, Berkeley. There is a variant of this essay with annotations by members of Grice's Play Group. By 'disposition,' Grice is referring to the 'analytic behaviouristic approach' by Gilbert Ryle, popularised in "The concept of mind.'

This is an excellent study. 'Meaning' makes an informal use of 'intending'. The most horrific part is when he says that 'mean to' Grice will consider as falling under the 'sense' which he calls 'non-natural' of "mean". And he only quotes from the American philosopher C. L. Stevenson. In this 'unpublication,' he takes, on the other hand, Ryle's treatment of the concept of 'mind' (as in 'mind your own business') seriously!

Grice, H. P. (1957). 'Meaning' -- vide 'Meaning' (1948). It was Strawson's idea, after having published "In defense of a dogma" with Grice, to have his (Strawson's) wife type this handwritten 1948 manuscript and submit it to the same review where they had submitted "In defence of a dogma." Perhaps Strawson was looking to give some prestige to his collaborator.

It was a good idea by Strawson to do what he did. It made philosophy within Oxford to become relevant _without_ Oxford. In due time, Grice will become an un-Oxonian philosopher, invited by Oxford to deliver the very Oxford (but to be delivered by a 'furriner') John Locke Lectures.

Grice, H. P. (1961). 'The causal theory of perception,' repr. in WoW (as one of the Essays in Part II: Semantics and Metaphysics). Proceedings of the Aristotelian Society. A symposium with A. R. White, repr. in G. J. Warnock, The philosophy of perception. Oxford readings in philosophy.

It is very understandable to see why Grice would have an interest in things like "That pillar box seems red to me." The Wittgensteinians were saying all sorts of odd things about them!

Grice, H. P. (1961). 'Negation,' The H. P. Grice Papers, BANC MSS 90/135c, The Bancroft Library, University of California, Berkeley. Grandy/Warner quote this as "Lectures on negation."

This is post-Strawson ("Introduction to logical theory"). Strawson had considered the distinction between the tilde and 'not.' Grice offers his Russellian-Whiteheadian defense!

Grice, H. P. (1964). 'Logic and conversation,' The H. P. Grice Papers, BANC MSS 90/135c. These are the Oxford lectures on implicature (explained in terms of the principles of conversational self-interest and conversational benevolence), later revised for Harvard. It was in this lectures that Grice started to use 'implicature' to oppose it to 'implication.' While at Harvard he joked with introducing 'implicature' as term of art, he had done that at Oxford a couple of years earlier!

One can understand Grice's choice of the keyword 'conversation.' (Vide his notes on cooperation, helpfulness, conversational self-interest, conversational benevolence, and the choice of the conversational dyad as a unit). It is less easy to understand the keyword: 'logic.' But then Strawson had written "Introduction to Logical Theory," which had been praised by Oxonian philosophers like J. O. Urmson and G. J. Warnock ("English Philosophy") as ordinary-language way to do logic, and Grice was justifiably offended!

Grice, H. P. (1966). Some remarks about the senses. In R. J. Butler, Analytic Philosophy. Oxford: Blackwell. Repr. in WoW. Grice was, as a typical English philosopher, a philosopher of perception. His work on perception was mainly pursued through the rich collaboration of G. J. Warnock, later Vice-Chancelor of Oxford.

Only Butler would think that this obscure piece by Grice, so within Oxford, could find appeal without Oxford. It did! But mainly because Blackwell had a branch in the New World!

Grice, H. P. (1967). 'Descartes on clear and distinct perception,' repr. in WoW. Grice played with Descartes a lot (the distinction between subjective and objective certainty). Colin McGinn has referred to Grice's model as telementational, in honour to Descartes.

Grice loved Kantotle, but Keyword: Descartes comes second!

Grice, H. P. (1967). 'Utterer's meaning and intentions,' The Philosophical Review. Being the fifth William James lecture, repr. in WoW. While Grice was not prepared to publish the complete William James lecturers _in toto_, he managed to get this essay in The Philosophical Review. It contains his responses to alleged counterexamples to his original 1948 'Meaning' by Urmson, Strawson, and a few others.

Grice is determined to give a conceptual analysis of "By uttering x, U means that p" in terms of necessary and sufficient conditions. It's not so much "Meaning revisited," but "Meaning with a vengeance"!

Grice, H. P. (1968). 'Utterer's meaning, sentence meaning, and word meaning,'The Foundations of Language. Being the sixth William James lecture, repr. in WoW. Again, as Grice was unprepared to publish his whole Harvard lectures, he was able to submit this to "The Foundations of Language". It contains a detailed account of what Grice sees as the two main functions of an expression of the form "The alpha is beta" (a 'shaggy-dog' story, as he calls it). The essay gained some popularity after it was reprinted by J. R. Searle in "The Philosophy of Language," in the "Oxford Readings in Philosophy" series published by G. J. Warnock. 

In "Meaning," Grice notes that not all ends with "by uttering x, U means that p." One needs an analysis, in terms of 'population,' of what an 'expression' (such as a 'sentence' or a 'word') means. This he does here!

Grice, H. P. (1969). 'Vacuous names,' in D. Davidson and J. Hintikka, eds. Words and objections. Dordrecht: Reidel. Repr. in part in Definite Descriptions, MIT. It contains a clever response by W. V. O. Quine, which is often dismissed.

Grice is being jocular by NOT focusing on Quine's critique of analysis (a dogma of empiricism, for Quine). Instead, Grice focuses on Quine's idea of getting rid of 'Pegasus' and using 'to pegasusise' instead! It all boils down, for Grice, to a scope-indicating device. He uses numeral subscripts here. He would later use square brackets -- the implicature is the same!

Grice, H. P. (1970). 'Basic Pirotese,' The H. P. Grice Papers, BANC MSS 90/135c, The Bancroft Library, University of California, Berkeley. 

Grice found Carnap's "Pirots karulise elatically" exhilarating. Pirotese is the lingo used in 'pirotology.' A pirot is any agent. Pirotology ends with the description of, alla Locke (as Grice quotes), "very intelligent, rational [pirots]," i.e. "hopefully us."

Grice, H. P. (1971). Intention and uncertainty. Proceedings of the British Academy. To be published in Grice, "Philosophical Papers," vol. 1, Clarendon. Rumour has it that Grice chose the provocative title as a response to what Hart and Hampshire were saying, in "Mind" about intention and certainty.

Rumour has it that Grice was offended by Hampshire's and Hart's "Intention and certainty" (Mind). Instead, he goes back to Prichard, and via Kenny and Anscombe, ends up with a form of neo-Prichardianism that bases the concept of 'indenting' on 'willing that-' and some causal restrictions. 

Grice, H. P. (1975). 'Method in philosophical psychology: from the banal  to the bizarre,' Proceedings of the American Philosophical Association, Presidential Address, Repr. in Grice, The Conception of Value. Grice felt the need to make it explicit what he stand towards psychological predicates was. He introduces pirotology as an approach to philosophical psychology.

If Grice had explored Ryle in "Dispositions and intention," he takes behaviourism even more seriously here. Grice ends up endorsing a variety of 'functionalism,' where psychological predicates are defined in terms of input (sensorial) and output (behavioural). His pirot of choice here is Toby, a squarrel. 

Grice, H. P. (1975). 'Logic and conversation,' in D. Davidson and G. Harman, Logic and Grammar -- being the second William James lecture, repr. in WoW. (While the thing was also published in Cole and Morgan, Grice would systematically cite this as per the "Logic and Grammar" edition -- the philosopher he was).

Harman and Davidson thought that 'implicature' was too good a concept to remain in an 'unpublication' and they asked Grice to allow him to reprint the second Harvard lecture in a very philosophical (yet cheap) publication -- it's double-columned!

Grice, H. P. (1975). 'Wants and needs,' The H. P. Grice Papers, Series V, Carton IX, BANC MSS 90/135c, The Bancroft Library, The University of California, Berkeley. 

Grice is concerned with conation: intending that, willing that, wanting that, and needing that...

Grice, H. P. (1978). 'Further notes on logic and conversation,' in P. Cole, Syntax and Semantics -- Being the third William James lecture, repr. in WoW.

Given the success that "Logic and Conversation" (in the Cole/Morgan reprint) had had, Cole thought of asking Grice to allow him to reprint the third Harvard lecture. It explains what Grice has behind his attempt not to multiply senses beyond necessity -- plus an elaboration on 'irony,' 'stress,' and 'truth.' All very fascinating. 

Grice, H. P. (1981). 'Presupposition and conversational implicature,' in Cole, Radical Pragmatics. Grice's criticism of Strawson's truth-value gap theory. 

Robbing Peter to pay Paul, that was Grice's motto. Since "Introduction to Logical Theory," by Strawson, but quoting Grice, Grice had been intent to apply his concept of a pragmatic (not logical) inference to 'logical operators.' He saw himself as a heir to "Principia Mathematica." It's natural that the operator 'the,' that he lists in the second Harvard lecture, would sooner or later become a topic of its own!

Grice, H. P. (1982). 'Meaning revisited,' in N. V. Smith, Mutual knowledge. Croom Helm. Repr. in WoW. A development of his views on 'meaning,' especially valuable for applying his parsimony razor to the 'meaning' lexeme itself. It contains a major problem too, as he connects 'meaning' with questions of 'value.'

This is not 'meaning with a vengeance,' since Grice's objective is quite humble: to make his reflections available to 'the general public.' He deals with 'meaning' as having just one sense -- and applies his pirotology -- without using 'pirot' to a myth about the phylogeny of meaning. All very fascinating. The thing end with a discussion of a keyword that Grice was getting obsessive with: 'value.' "Meaning," after all, may well be, like 'sentence,' or 'king' or 'cabbage,' a "value-oriented" concept.

Grice, H. P. (1986). 'Reply to Richards,' in PGRICE, Philosophical Grounds of Rationality: Intentions, Categories, Ends, edited by R. O. Warner and R. E. Grandy. Clarendon Press. Originally entitled, "Prejudices and predilections, which become, the life and opinions of Paul Grice."

The festschrift -- Grice never cared to give individual responses to the contributors -- was just an excuse for Grice to publish his "Prejudices and predilections" (note: not "predilections and prejudices"), "... which become the life and opinions of Paul Grice," one of his most fascinating pieces, where he reminisces the time with his nonconformist father back in Harborne, and beyond!

Grice, H. P. (1986). 'Actions and events,' Pacific Philosophical Quarterly. Grice's elaborations of metaphysics, with special emphasis on the concept of 'freedom.'

The trigger for this must be Davidson. But Grice manages to quote from Reichenbach and indeed go beyond Davidson by providing a linguistic botany of 'free' (as in 'alcohol-free')!

Grice, H. P. (1987). 'Retrospective Epilogue,' in WoW. A revision of the many strands he identifies in the essays he selects for the introduction of this volume, which, by contract, he had to publish with the Harvard University Press.

The whole point of reprinting his essays with Harvard University Press was for Grice to provide a "Retrospective Epilogue," which is more like a 'valediction' (a term he also used elsewhere). He identifies the many strands in his theorising over this and that, and he manages to make the topics fascinating -- especially when he starts talking of the "Oxonian dialectic" that he knew so well!

Grice, H. P. (1987). 'Foreword,' in WoW.

A short thing, just to dismiss Bennett's proposal to have a totally different ordering for the essays compiled in WoW.


Grice, H. P. (1987). 'Metaphysics, philosophical eschatology, and Plato's Republic,' in WoW. A discussion and definition of 'eschatology,' and an application of it to the treatment of the epithet 'right' as used by Socrates in Plato's "Republic." (legal vs. moral right). 

Grice has become obsessed with 'metaphysics' (as he wants to see himself as an enemy of the long-defunct Vienna circle). Grice finds that the traditional distinctions in metaphysics are lacking 'philosophical eschatology,' which deals with 'trans-categorial epithets,' rather. His choice here is 'right,' as used by Socrates in "Republic." It connects with remarks Grice makes about the priority of 'priority' (conceptual, epistemological) when it comes to things like objects (or material things) and sense data, or 'morality' and 'legality'. 

Grice, H. P. (1988). 'Aristotle on the multiplicity of being,' Pacific Philosophical Quarterly. Edited by B. F. Loar. It contains Grice's earlier reflections, with A. D. Code, on izzing (essential) and hazzing (accidental) properties. 

If Descartes features in some of Grice's publications and unpublications, his philosopher of choice is Kantotle. This is an essay formulated thanks to some collaborations with A. D. Code. It is particularly fascinating when Grice starts playing, axiomatically, with 'izzing' and 'hazzing.'

Grice, H. P. (1989). Studies in the Way of Words. Harvard.

A compilation of the Harvard lectures, plus a few other items that Grice groups under "Part II: Semantics and Metaphysics."

Grice, H. P. (1991). The conception of value, being the Paul Carus Lectures. Clarendon Press.

These brief lectures end up providing a justification of objective, absolute value -- and without mentioning Kant much!

Grice, H. P. (2001). Aspects of reason, being the John Locke lectures, Oxford -- previously delivered as the Immanuel Kant Lectures, Stanford. Clarendon Press.

These were delivered BEFORE the Carus lectures. "Reasoning" features large in Grice's publications and unpublications, and it's only logical that he would find the occasion provided by Oxford to expand on the topic.

(B) COLLABORATIONS -- alphabetically by surname of collaborator 

Grice was a collaborator par excellence. He used to say that 'doing philosophy' should be like 'doing music,' and he was having a quartet in mind!

The following is a brief account of his collaborations. The collaborations are ordered chronologically. 

The collaborators are ordered alphabetically.

AND J. BAKER.

Grice was fortunate in having a collaborator like Judith Baker. She has popularised some of Grice's views, notably in a memorable symposium for the American Philosophical Association, excerpted in "The Journal of Philosophy."

Grice, H. P. & J. Baker (1985), 'Davidson on weakness of the will,' in M. Hintikka and B. Vermazen. Oxford: Clarendon Press. A criticism to Davidson's probability-calculus idea that 'akrasia' is conceptually nonsensical.

'Akrasia' is conceptually important to Grice, because, armed with some symbolism, he can prove Davidson wrong!

Grice, H. P. & J. Baker (1980). 'Reflections on morals.' A book-length piece, according to Grandy/Warner. It occupies many folders. 

Grice, H. P. (1982). 'Kant's Ethical Theory'. At Berkeley, Baker and Judith were concerned with the giving of seminars on both Aristotle and Kant. Hence Grice's idea of compiling both authors under "Kantotle."

Grice, H. P. and J. Baker (1980). Correspondence. The letters by J. Baker to Grice occupy two folders in the first carton, in the Series I of the Grice papers at Bancroft. 

-- WITH A. D. CODE.

While Grice would play "Kantotle" with J. L. Ackrill and J. L. Austin at Oxford, it was good he found Code at Berkeley. 

Grice, H. P. & A. D. Code (1980). 'Izzing and Hazzing,' The H. P. Grice Papers, BANC MSS 90/135c, The Bancroft Library, University of California, Berkeley. Part of this reflections are developed by Grice in his "Aristotle and the multiplicity of being" that B. F. Loar published for the Pacific Philosophical Quarterly in 1988.

-- WITH FRIEDMAN.

Grice, H. P. & M. Friedman (1988). 'Universals,' The H. P. Grice Papers, BANC MSS 90/135c, The Bancroft Library, University of California, Berkeley.

-- WITH G. MYRO

Grice first cites from Myro in "Vacuous Names." Grice was fascinated by Myro's expertise in logic! (Myro was Russian, so it is logical that Grice would NOT be fascinated by Myro's expertise in linguistic botanising, say!)

Grice, H. P & G. Myro (1980). 'Identity,' in The H. P. Grice Papers, BANC MSS 90/135c, The Bancroft Library, University of California, Berkeley. If Grice coined a System Q to honour Quine, Myro coined a System G to honour Grice. 

-- WITH D. F. PEARS

Pears is a very English, gentle, philosopher. He credits Grice in a number of publications, and Grice found his collaboration with Pears to be gentle as Pears was.

Grice, H. P. D. F. Pears (1950). Philosophical psychology. Referred to by Grice in "Reply to Richards." Pears refers to Grice in Pears's essay in The Canadian Journal of Philosophy and his essay on "Motivated Irrationality." Pears, like Grice, was a member of Austin's second Play Group.

WITH J. F. STAAL

As with Myro, we have a 'furriner' here so it's logical that Grice found Staal useful when it came to technical notions in syntax and semantics, rather than, say, linguistic botanising!

Grice, H. P. and J. F. Staal (n.d.). 'The 'that'-clause,' The H. P. Grice Papers, BANC MSS 90/135c, The Bancroft Library, The University of California, Berkeley.

-- AND P. F. STRAWSON

"Robbin Peter to pay Paul" is perhaps Grice's favourite motto -- the original motto refers to the two churches in London --. Grice calls Strawson his 'student', 'friend' and 'favourite knight.' They were collaborators (not just 'Defence of a dogma,' but work on "Categories") but Strawson's account of the divergences between Principia Mathematica and English offended Grice!


Grice, H. P. & P. F. Strawson (1956). 'In defence of a dogma,' Philosophical Review. Repr. in WoW. Strawson promised Grice that he would never reprint his essay in any of his many volumes, and he kept his word!

Grice, H. P., P. F. Strawson, & D. F. Pears (1957). 'Metaphysics,' in D. F. Pears, The Nature of Metaphysics. London: Macmillan. It is difficult to see which exactly is Grice's contribution, but they manage to quote from Collingwood, and various other authors.

-- WITH J. F. THOMSON.

Thomson is a very gentle philosopher, and not a lot were interested, as Grice and Thomson were, in philosophy of action, back in Oxford.

Grice, H. P. & J. F. Thomson (1950). Actions. Referred to by Grice in 'Reply to Richards.' While Grice refers to their joint work in the philosophy of action, Thomson's "If" compares to Grice's implicatural approach to the conditional in "Indicative Conditionals."

-- WITH R. O. WARNER.

An excellent amanuensis!

Grice, H. P. & R. O. Warner (n.d.) 'Philosophical notes,' in The H. P. Grice Papers, BANC MSS 90/135c, The Bancroft Library, University of California, Berkeley.

Grice, H. P. & R. O. Warner (1980). Correspondence. There are two folder in the first carton (Series I) in the Grice Papers containing Warner's letters to Grice. Very interesting!

-- WITH G. J. WARNOCK.

A very English philosopher. Almost as English as J. O. Urmson (both were from Yorkshire). Grice found Warnock exquisite and vice versa. Warnock nicely reminisces the occasion when Grice uttered, slighlty out of the blue, 'How clever language is!' It wasn't clear to Warnock if Grice meant Latin, Greek, or English!


Grice, H. P. & G. J. Warnock (1959). 'Perception,' The H. P. Grice Papers, BANC MSS 90/135c, The Bancroft Library, University of California, Berkeley.

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As an APPENDIX, I offer some further notes on the publications and unpublications by H. P. Grice.

How we proceed to compose a catalogue raisonné? More specifically: What would a catalogue raisonné of "Griceiana" look like?

That is a rather tricky question, and a Griceian one at that, not without its disimplicatures!

I propose a few hints: catalogue raisonné should include Grice's oeuvre, of course, both his publications and his unpublications. 

But a catalogue raisonné should also include a secondary bibliography, as it were -- notably oeuvre by his Oxonian colleagues -- not to mention (then why do you?) those authors -- especially Oxonian philosophers -- cited by Grice himself -- or his self, as he'd prefer.

And essays  by Speranza are all ways welcomed!

A catalogue raisonné of H. P. Grice should at least then include: (a) the list of his publications, and (b) the list of his 'unpublications' (which "by far surpass in number" (a)), he would often joke.

Some of his unpublications have been catalogued under six series -- expanded below.

But surely the Grice Papers at Bancroft is NOT the compleat thing! 

(As an example, there is "Definite descriptions in Russell and in the vernacular," which has not been deposited as an 'unpublication' in the Grice Papers at Bancroft -- that I prefer to refer to as The K. W. Grice Collection, since it was K. W. Grice's idea to donate the stuff to the Bancroft! So let us begin with his 'perfectionist' publications!

We should start by resuming our look at THE PUBLICATIONS OF H. P. GRICE.

These should fall in two categories:

THE PUBLICATIONS OF H. P. GRICE -- including the forthcoming ones!

The publications is an altogether different animal -- and slightly easier to edit.

Grice, H. P. (1941). Personal identity. Mind. Repr. in J. Perry, Personal Identity. Berkeley, CA: University of California Press. 

This paper is important for more than one reason. It contains a conceptual analysis of 'someone' sentences ("Someone heard a noise."). It can be deemed a 'reductive' if not reductivisit analysis, in that the sentence is analysed in terms of mnemonic states. Quinton saw it as Lockean in spirit, as Perry did, when he reprinted it in his influential collection on "Personal identity," published in the now defunct "University of California Press" at Berkeley.

Grice, H. P. (1948). 'Meaning,' repr. in WoW. 

It is crucial that Grice cared to date this '1948' with a straight face! Most philosophers know it as Grice (1957) and most linguists don't know it!

This is a super-important essay. It was publicly presented to the Oxford Philosophical Society, a bit 'out of the blue.' The only author Grice cites is C. L. Stevenson, in a book published four years before -- "Ethics and language" (Yale University Press). But it can be viewed as Grice's rudimentary attempt to provide an analysis of "By uttering x, Utterer U means that p." It was cited variously, first perhaps by H. L. A. Hart, in a footnote to his review of Holloway's "Language and Intelligence" in "The Philosophical Quarterly."

Grice, H. P. (1961). 'The causal theory of perception,' Proceedings of the Aristotelian Society. A symposium with A. R. White, repr. in G. J. Warnock, The philosophy of perception. Oxford readings in philosophy. Also repr. in Swartz, and in "Causal Models."

This is a symposium. The chair was a Cambridge philosopher since the symposium was held at Cambridge.

This is a super-important paper, and for years, the only source for Grice's theory of 'implication' or 'implicature.' He does not use 'implicature' then. He introduced the noun in the 1964 lectures. And the excursus is entitled, "Implication." But for those pedantic Oxonian philosophers who would NEVER quote from an unpublication, it was a matter of citing Grice's "The causal theory of perception" to refer to Grice's idea that some 'implications' are 'pragmatic,' rather than logical (Notably, the implication "The red pillar is NOT red" out of "The red pillar SEEMS red."). An interesting thing about the excursus on 'Implication' is that Grice attempts to generalise his manoeuvre to cover many other philosophical examples -- and notably unrelated to the philosophy of perception. The explanation is pragmatic and in terms of 'strength' or 'informativeness.' To say, "The pillar box IS red" is somewhat STRONGER than saying, alla British -- Brits love an innuendo -- "The pillar box SEEMS red." The latter is notably cancellable: "The pillar box SEEMS red for the obvious reason that it IS red."

Grice, H. P. (1966). 'Some remarks about the senses,',  in R. J. Butler (Ed.) Analytic Philosophy. Oxford: Blackwell. Repr. in WoW.

Butler found this fascinating. Grice cites O. P. Wood in a footnote. It compares to J. O. Urmson's "The object of the five senses." Grice introduces, infamously, the Martian examples. There are zillions of unpublications on various areas in the philosophy of perception in the Grice Papers at the Bancroft, many produced along with G. J. Warnock. Grice and Warnock were concerned with 'what is seen,' for example, and 'see' was perhaps Grice's favourite perception verb. 

Grice, H. P. & P. F. Strawson (1956), 'In defence of a dogma,' Philosophical Review. Repr. in WoW.

This is a classic in 20th-century analytic philosophy, if ever there was one. Most analytic philosophers dislike it, though, for the very reason that it's too Oxonian for their tastes. Grice and Strawson propose, contra Quine, ONE CRITERION that gives a rationale to the analytic-synthetic distinction. Therefore, their implicature is that, contra Quine, this is a 'dogma,' not a dogma -- if there is a rationale, it kant be a dogma. The criterion is "No, I don't understand you" as the counter conversational move to an analytically false sentence versus "No, I don't believe you" as a counter conversational move to a merely synthetically false sentence.

Grice, H. P., P. F. Strawson, & D. F. Pears (1957). 'Metaphysics,' in D. F. Pears, (Ed.), The Nature of Metaphysics. London: Macmillan.

For some reason, Richards (Grandy/Warner) omit this in "The publications of H. P. Grice" in PGRICE, but Edwards didn't in his "Encyclopaedia of philosophy" -- entry: "Metaphysics." It is so general in range that it's unsurprising that Edwards includes it. The idea was Pears'. He was involved in the organisation of philosophical colloquia for the BBC third-programme radio series, and he thought this was fascinating enough. Grice and Strawson and Pears expand on Collingwood, Kant, and many others. Notably, they want to say that the once 'enfant terrible' of Oxford philosophy, Sir Freddie Ayer, was too hasty in deeming 'metaphysics' nonsensical -- and he was!


Grice, H. P. (1957). 'Meaning,' The Philosophical Review. Repr. in WoW. (From a typed version, by Anne Strawson, of Grice's 1948 manuscript).

After Strawson had this idea of getting Grice's (1948) 'Meaning' published, a flurry of essays followed, criticising Grice. He almost had an attack. But he survived! He kept most of the criticisms, until 1967, when he delivered his responses to them in the fourth William James lecture, "Utterer's meaning and intentions." It is noteworthy that Grice remains Oxonian. He is concerned with criticisms by J. O. Urmson and P. F. Strawson mainly. It seems brutal that Strawson would force Grice to publish this only to have the thing criticised in an essay published in the very same journal. Strawson's "Intention and convention in speech acts" set a precedent. His tutee at the time, S. R. Schiffer, kept providing counter-examples, or alleged counter-examples, and Grice kept smiling!

Grice, H. P. (1967). 'Utterer's meaning and intentions,' The Philosophical Review. Being the fifth William James lecture, repr. in WoW.

This contains Grice's responses to J. O. Urmson on the necessity of the clauses for the analysis of "By uttering x, U means that p", and to P. F. Strawson and others on the sufficiency of the clauses. It can be seen as a paradigm of a type of philosophising that Grice found fascinating for a while. You present a conceptual analysis, and then you have tirades of philosophers finding the clauses either insufficient or unnecessary! Or, in Grice's words, the prongs being too many or too few -- the analysis being 'too weak' or 'too strong.'

Grice, H. P. (1968). 'Utterer's meaning, sentence meaning, and word meaning,' The Foundations of Language. Being the sixth William James lecture, repr. in WoW. Repr. in J. R. Searle (Ed.), The philosophy of language. Oxford: Clarendon Press, Readings in Philosophy, ed. by G. J. Warnock. 

This is Grice's attempt to explore the keyword: 'expression.' In the (1948) 'Meaning,' he had promised that much. In this essay, that Chomsky criticises in his "Reflections on Language" lectures, Grice gives a shaggy-dog story for things like 'referring' and 'attributing.' The paper was influential in Oxford, and C. A. B. Peacocke relies on it for his contribution to the popular Evans/McDowell symposium on truth and meaning. Loar made a similar use of Grice's ideas here.

Grice, H. P. (1969). 'Vacuous names,' in D. Davidson and J. Hintikka, eds. Words and objections. Dordrecht: Reidel -- with a reply by Quine, 'Reply to H. P. Grice.' Repr. in part in Definite Descriptions, MIT.

The paper is fascinating in that it explores a mere syntactic device to save some implicatures (or phenomena). The device is numerical, and subscriptical! Grice later became short-sighted, and preferred a square-bracket device to the same purpose. Thus, if we say "[The king of France] is not bald." we are implicating that there IS a king of France. In the numerical subscript device, the issue becomes more complicated, since it involves the use of a subscript for the iota operator. Grice also plays with Donnellian themes -- "but I never read Donnellan!" -- distinguishing an identificatory use (never 'sense') of 'the' versus a non-identificatory one ("Jones's butler, whoever that may be, looks like Jones's uncle.")

Grice, H. P. (1971). 'Intention and uncertainty,' Proceedings of the British Academy.

This is an excellent essay, that Grice calls 'neo-Prichardian,' as a joke, knowing that few would know of Prichard -- a very Welsh and Oxonian philosopher. Grice finds Prichard's analysis of 'willing that-' just too genial to be true. The rumour is that the title is a joke on Hart's and Hampshire's rather optimistic account of intention and certainty in "Mind."

Grice, H. P. (1975). 'Method in philosophical psychology: from the banal  to the bizarre,' Proceedings of the American Philosophical Association. Repr. in Grice, The Conception of Value.

This is a Presidential Address (Pacific Division) -- the kingdom of the A.P.A. has two presidents, at least --. And Grice sounds properly presidential. He quotes from D. K. Lewis, who had popularised a type of 'functionalism' alla Turing. But Grice goes back to Ryle, too. It connects with topics developed by Pears in the Duckworth volume on Philosophical Psychology. Grice does NOT use the keyword 'philosophy of mind,' preferring 'philosophical psychology' or even 'psychologia rationalis' ANY DAY!

Grice, H. P. (1975). 'Logic and conversation,' in D. Davidson and G. Harman, Logic and Grammar -- being the second William James lecture, repr. in WoW. (While the thing was also published in Cole and Morgan, Grice would systematically cite this as per the "Logic and Grammar" edition -- the philosopher he was).

Harman and Davidson thought it would be good for philosophers to be able to quote Grice on 'implicature' from a publication, rather than an unpublication (Grice had been using 'implicature' since 1964 at Oxford). Davidson, in particular, would later rely on 'implicature' in various essays. In Davidson's analysis of 'intending,' implicature features large, but surprisingly Grice finds this application of the 'tool' of implicature sloppy -- "Davidson's application of my concept of conversational implicature looks too social to be true." -- cited by Pears, Motivated irrationality. Davidson also implicates implicature in "A nice derangement of epitaphs,' which was his contribution to the Richards's PGRICE. 

Grice, H. P. (1978). 'Further notes on logic and conversation,' in P. Cole (Ed.), Syntax and Semantics -- Being the third William James lecture, repr. in WoW.

Given that Grice's "Logic and Conversation" was published jointly by Harman and Davidson and by Cole and Morgan, it was only to be expected that Cole would ask Grice to allow to have these "Further notes" in another volume in the same series on "Syntax and Semantics" published by the not quite academic "Academic Press."

Grice, H. P. (1981). 'Presupposition and conversational implicature,' In Cole (Ed.), Radical Pragmatics. New York and London: Academic Press.

Again, Cole was now asking Grice to allow publication for Grice's attempt to reject the idea of a truth-value gap 'presupposition' in favour of 'implicature.' The topic concerns 'definite descriptors' (the iota operator -- that Grice lists in "Logic and Conversation"), and it underwent various versions (My favourite: "Definite descriptions in Russell and in the vernacular." -- by "the vernacular," Grice means Sir Peter F. Strawson!)

Grice, H. P. (1982). 'Meaning revisited,' n N. V. Smith, Mutual knowledge. London: Croom Helm. Repr. in WoW.

This is an informal account of Grice's views on meaning, with some good insights that he calls, after Grandy, 'quessertions'. The most important one Grice calls a 'major problem,' and concerns the application of the concept of 'value' to issues of meaning. Thus, like 'king' or 'cabbage,' 'means' becomes a Platonic form, almost!

Grice, H. P. (1986). 'Reply to Richards,' in PGRICE, Philosophical Grounds of Rationality: Intentions, Categories, Ends, edited by R. O. Warner and R. E. Grandy. Clarendon Press. Originally entitled, "Prejudices and predilections, which become, the life and opinions of Paul Grice."

This is Grice's excuse to expand on his "Prejudices and predilections." He was genial enough to entitle those as "Prejudices and predilections, which become the life and opinions of Paul Grice." Who said a philosopher cannot have a prejudice or two?

Grice, H. P. (1988). 'Actions and events, Pacific Philosophical Quarterly.

This is Grice's reading of Davidson, with Reichenbach thrown in for good measure. It ends with an exploration of 'freedom,' as in 'free fall' and 'alcohol-free.'

Grice, H. P. (1988). 'Aristotle on the multiplicity of being,' Pacific Philosophical Quarterly.

This is Grice's version of the 'izzing' and 'hazzing' coinages with A. D. Code. 'Izzing' is mainly the display an essential attribute, whereas 'hazzing' is the display an accidental one. 


COLLABORATIONS

Grice, H. P. & J. Baker, (1985). Davidson on weakness of the will. In M. Hintikka and B. Vermazen. Oxford: Clarendon Press.

A collaboration evolved from Grice's explorations of 'reasons.' Is there such a thing as 'theoretical akrasia' (cfr. Moore, "It is raining, but I don't believe it.") Grice thinks there is. Davidson thinks akrasia _in toto_ is nonsensical.

Grice, H. P. (1989). Studies in the Way of Words. Harvard.

An excellent compilation. Part I contains the 1967 Harvard lectures on Logic and Conversation, and Grice is under contractual basis to have them published by the Harvard University Press. In Part II, however, he managed to publish many of his 'unpublications' and some reprints! It became Grice's most influential item, and the source of retrospectives of 20th-century analytic philosophy (e.g. Travis, "Annals of analysis," in "The Journal of Philosophy.")

Grice, H. P. (1991). The conception of value. Oxford: The Clarendon Press. 

An examination of J. L. Mackie and his relativism of values. Instead, Grice proposes, as Baker's illuminating foreword notes, a defense of objective, absolute, value. It is Kantian in nature. 

Grice, H. P. (2001). Aspects of reason. Oxford: The Clarendon Press.

Grice was invited to give the Kant lectures at Stanford and he chose the topic of reasons. Two years later, he revised those for Oxford (The John Locke Lectures). This is an edition of various drafts. The final appendix is Grice's account, very Aristotelian, in nature, of 'happiness.' How does it relate? The previous lectures culminate with an account of Kant's categorical imperative. But Grice is a constructivist, so he wants to say, "If you want to be happy, follow Kant's categorical imperative." This is why Kantotle, and not just Kant OR Aristotle, was Grice's favourite philosopher EVER (versus Plathegel).

Under (A2) fall THE PUBLICATIONS BY H. P. GRICE -- forthcoming!

The forthcoming publications by Grice should include at least two volumes. 

The first volume contains Grice's publications.

The second volume contains Grice's collaborations.

(i) Grice, "Philosophical Papers", Clarendon. Including: "Personal Identity" (1941), "Vacuous Names" (1969), "Intention and Uncertainty" (1971), "Actions and Events" (1988), "Aristotle on the multiplicity of being" (1988), "Intentions and dispositions" (1950), "Probability, Desirability, and Mode Operators" (1973), and a few other items.

(ii) Grice, "Philosophical Papers: The Collaborations" -- work with J. Baker, "Davidson on weakness of the will" (1985), work with A. D. Code, J. F. Thomson, P. F. Strawson,  D. F. Pears, J. F. Staal, and notably G. J. Warnock. 

Regarding (A1), some secondary bibliography should be appended just after the item by Grice. This should be viewed broadly so as to include references to, say, Urmson (and his principles of conversation), Nowell-Smith (and his principles of conversation), O. P. Wood, and the Oxonian work on 'pragmatic implication,' inter alia. 

What follows is AN ANNOTATION OF GRICE'S MAIN PUBLICATIONS.

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Grice, H. P. (1941). 'Personal identity,' Mind. Repr. in J. Perry, Personal Identity. Berkeley, CA: University of California Press.
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This item became popular after the Perry reprint. But surely a catalogue raisonné should include AUTHORS CITED BY GRICE in the item, and MOST AUTHORS who have referred to the item -- notably in Oxford.

It is interesting that, while credited as Grice's first 'publication,' it isn't really. Witters is right that even an 'unpublication' should count as a 'publication,' and it is Grice's essay on "Negation" (1938), composed while in Harborne, that should count as his first _philosophical_ piece of work, as they say!

The authors cited by Grice in "Personal Identity" are many. His goal is simple enough: to provide an analysis (or 'logical construction,' as he'll later say) of "I" in terms of mnemonic states.

The Grice papers contain further material on this. He later referred to this as the 'logical construction' approach to "I", and he was particularly interested, after discussions with J. Haugeland, with David Home (or Hume, as Grice spelt it) in special focus.

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Grice, H. P. (1948). 'Meaning,' presented to The Philosophical Society, Oxford. Repr. in WoW
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I just LOVE to write "1948," since you'll find most philosophers citing this as Grice (1957)!

But Grice explicitly wrote "1948" when Harvard invited him to include further items than the William James lectures to the WoW (Way of Words) compilation.

It is difficult to trace who quoted Grice 1948 first. I like to quote from H. L. A. Hart who refers to Grice 1948 in his Holloway review, i.e. his review of Holloway, "Language and Intelligence."

But most importantly should be P. F. Strawson, Grice's tuttee. Strawson deviced a type of counter-example that Grice took very seriously. Notably, Strawson found Grice's 'analysis' incomplete -- and the rest is history!

The goal of Grice is clear enough: to provide an analysis in terms of necessary and sufficient conditions of phrases such as "By uttering x, U means that p." He'll later recognise he failed -- hence his refinement in "Utterer's meaning and intentions," where the final analysis occupies a whole page in the "Philosophical Review" reprint!

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Grice, H. P. and P. F. Strawson (1956). 'In defence of a dogma,' Philosophical Review. Repr. in WoW.
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Presented as a gift to Quine while he was visiting the dreaming spires!

The 'dogma' being the 'analytic-synthetic distinction'. The use of 'dogma' is ironic.

Strawson once swore that he would never reprint this in any of his various collections! And he kept the promise. (I am less happy with Strawson's reprinting his "If and The Horse-Shoe," which appeared in the PGRICE festschrift -- what is the good of a festschrift if you are going to go and publish the contribution elsewhere?)

The thing by Grice and Strawson cannot be understood without misreading Quine, "Two dogmas of empiricism." Of course. But while that sounds like American, rather than Oxonian philosophy, one should recall that Quine was visiting the Dreaming Spires at the time!

Quine had occasion to discuss Grice's and Strawson's proposal in "Word and object." Oddly, when Grice was invited to contribute to "Words and objections," he chose an altogether different topic: vacuous names!

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Grice, H. P. (1957). 'Meaning,' The Philosophical Review. Repr. in WoW. Repr. in P. F. Strawson (Ed), Philosophical Logic. Oxford: Clarendon Press, Oxford readings in philosophy, ed. by G. J. Warnock. 
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This is of course Grice 1948. When published by The Philosophical Review, after Anne Strawson typed it, and P. F. Strawson sent it to the journal, it became an American thing almost.

B. J. Harrison once said that Grice's "Meaning" recevied "almost as many counter-examples as rule-utilitarianism!"

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Grice, H. P., P. F. Strawson, & D. F. Pears (1957). Metaphysics. In D. F. Pears (Ed.), The Nature of Metaphysics. London: Macmillan.
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Keyword: metaphysics.

This is a complex piece, and Pears's idea -- he was after all, going to London, for the Third Programme thing. It is not clear what part was written by Grice, which by Strawson, and which by Pears -- but who cares? It is a fascinating thing altogether, citing Collingwood!

What I like best about this publication is that it is NOT included in Grandy/Warner's list of "The publications of H. P. Grice" in Grice's festschrift!

But it IS cited in the "Metaphysics" entry in Edwards' encyclopaedic encyclopaedia!

Grice 1961 a.k.a.

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Grice, H. P. (1961). 'The causal theory of perception,' Proceedings of the Aristotelian Society. A symposium with A. R. White, repr. in G. J. Warnock, The philosophy of perception. Oxford readings in philosophy.
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It is easy to forget (a) that this was a symposium with A. R. White, and that Grice unfortunately thought that to include the 'excursus' on 'implication' in WoW would be redundant!

It is best to see this as part of the "Warnock retrospective," as Grice called it. It was, of course, the Grice/Warnock retrospective -- since Grice was Warnock's senior. There are loads of stuff on perception at the Bancroft.

The "Causal Theory" is rather dry by comparison. Historians mostly refer to it as an early advancement of the theory of implicature:

(i) The pillar box seems red to me; but then it would, since it IS red.

Grice fights with the idea that

(ii) The pillar box seems red to me.

and

(iii) The pillar box is red.

neither entail each other! But that's neither here nor there (An entailment-based account of strength or informative seems therefore out of order!)

While Grice was credited by Strawson in an earlier work as being concerned with the implicatures of 'some' and 'all' (footnote to "Introduction to Logical Theory"), Grice has said that his original attempt to distinguish between 'logical' and 'pragmatic' inferences (broadly construed) was motivated by his criticism of some neo-Wittgensteinians (he is having G. A. Paul in mind) who were playing with the dangerous idea of a sense-datum!

Grice 1966 a.k.a.

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Grice, H. P. (1966). 'Some remarks about the senses,' in R. J. Butler (Ed.), Analytic Philosophy. Oxford: Blackwell. Repr. in WoW.
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Grice at possibly his driest! But surely this is important when it comes to KEYWORD: Martian. For Grice introduces the four-eyed Martians. How Butler came to invite Grice to reprint this -- a venture springing from Grice's work on perceiving with Warnock -- escapes most!

There is a footnote in the Butler edition crediting conversations with O. P. Wood, later eliminated in the WoW reprint. Wood belonged to Ryle's group, not Austin's!

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Grice, H. P. (1968). 'Utterer's meaning, sentence meaning, and word meaning,' The Foundations of Language. Being the sixth William James lecture, repr. in WoW. Repr. in J. R. Searle (Ed.), The philosophy of language. Oxford: Clarendon, Oxford readings in philosophy, ed. by G. J. Warnock. 
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It is good of Grice to think of this as a piece that can be read independently. It concerns his programme, from utterer to expression. My favourite is the shaggy-dog story where he is concerned with the logical form of "The A is B" utterances. "The dog is shaggy." What does it mean to 'refer' to the dog? What does it mean to attribute shagginess or hairy-coatedness to the thing?

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Grice, H. P. (1967). 'Utterer's meaning and intentions, 'The Philosophical Review. Being the fifth William James lecture, repr. in WoW.
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Grice rightly thought that this thing could stand independently. It is merely his response to Strawson's counterexaple (or 'alleged counterexample,' as Grice would have it) in The Philosophical Review (the 'infested by rats' example) -- but also by Urmson, and many others, notably American philosophers then studying at Oxford: Searle, Schiffer, Stampe, Patton, etc.

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Grice, H. P. (1969). 'Vacuous names, ' in D. Davidson and J. Hintikka, eds. Words and objections. Dordrecht: Reidel. Repr. in part in Definite Descriptions, MIT.
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keyword: iota operator, definite descriptor. 

One wonders what Grice was thinking at the time. Quine soon dismissed the piece as irrelevant -- "a mere scope device should keep Grice silent!" But to Griceians, it is the best example of Grice playing with System G (or what Myro would later call System G). Following Mates's infamous "Logic," it allows Grice to show his inexpertise in logic, with a brilliance! And his System G has a syntax, a semantics, and why not, a pragmatics.

It is not curious that the ending section on definite descriptors (the identificatory versus non-identificatory uses, that Grice says arrived at independently from Donnellan) has been reprinted.

Grice 1971 a.k.a.

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Grice, H. P. (1971). 'Intention and uncertainty,' Proceedings of the British Academy, repr. in Grice, Philosophical Papers, vol. 1, Oxford: Clarendon.
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keyword: intention.

Why Grice chose THIS subject for the British Academy, Gilbert Harman suggests, may well be that Hart and Hampshire had been written on intention and certainty for "Mind". My take is that Grice was an irreverent revisionist, and although he plays with Kenny and Anscombe, he ends up endorsing the outdated view by the very Oxonian Prichard!

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Grice, H. P. (1975). 'Method in philosophical psychology: from the banal  to the bizarre,' Proceedings of the American Philosophical Association. Repr. in Grice, The Conception of Value.
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keyword: psychological predicate, functionalism, pirot. 

It was about time, by 1974, that Grice should make clear what he meant by the operator "psi" that he had relied on in his work on implicacture. He couldn't be more bizarre! He introduces the pirots, and indeed the whole discipline of pirotology! And he comes out as a 'functionalist', with a small 'f'.

It is no wonder that this essay is a favourite of the American philosopher Ned Block!

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Grice, H. P. (1975). 'Logic and conversation, in D. Davidson and G. Harman, Logic and Grammar -- being the second William James lecture, repr. in WoW.
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keyword: implicature, cooperative principle.

Most philosophers were quoting this as Grice (1967) as they should. My favourite debate is by L. J. Cohen and R. C. S. Walker -- So Oxford! R. M. Hare refers to this in his "Practical Inferences" as does D. F. Pears in The Canadian Journal of Philosophy ("Ifs and Cans"). So it was a very Oxford thing, arising from Grice's reading Strawson's Introduction to Logical Theory, and criticising Strawson for his account of 'if'. The irony is that Strawson recognises in that essay that all he learned about logic was from Grice!

(Grice is quoted twice: in Strawson's prologue and in a footnote where the implicature approach is 'implicated').

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Grice, H. P. (1978). 'Further notes on logic and conversation,' in P. Cole, Syntax and Semantics -- Being the third William James lecture, repr. in WoW.
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keyword: Modified Occam Razor. 

This is mainly Grice's rationale for the Modified Occam Razor, which Grice found funny!

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Grice, H. P. (1981). 'Presupposition and conversational implicature,' in Cole (Ed), Radical pragmatics. London & New York: Academic Press.
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A variant of an unpublication. Otherwise known as "Definite descriptions in Russell and in the vernacular."

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Grice, H. P. (1982). 'Meaning revisited,' in N. V. Smith, Mutual knowledge. Croom Helm. Repr. in WoW.
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This is a programmatic piece. It becomes crucial when dealing with the development of Grice's views, since, inter alia, he applies the razor of parsimony to the 'alleged senses' of "mean" in "Meaning" ('natural' and, er, 'non-natural'). 

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Grice, H. P. (1986). 'Reply to Richards,; in PGRICE, Philosophical Grounds of Rationality: Intentions, Categories, Ends, edited by R. O. Warner and R. E. Grandy. Clarendon Press. Originally entitled, "Prejudices and predilections, which become, the life and opinions of Paul Grice."
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This was almost commissioned, if you could do such a thing to Grice, by Grandy and Warner. Since both Grandy's and Warner's Christian (or first) names are Richard, Grice relabelled the thing, "Repy to Richards." His implicature is: What is Grandy's? What is Warner's? (A double question that one can pose to Grice's and Strawson's "In defence of a dogma," though!)

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Grice, H. P. (1987). 'Philosophical eschatology and Plato's Republic,' Repr. in WoW
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A rare historical essay by Grice. He is more interested in the methodological implications of his new discipline ('philosophical eschatology') than Plato, of course!

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Grice, H. P. (1988). 'Actions and events,' Pacific Philosophical Quarterly.
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This is a very intereresting and important essay, since it deals with Grice's favourite colleague (if not friend) at Berkeley: Donald Davidson. It also contains an account of 'freedom' that has been discussed freely by various philosophers!

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Grice, H. P. (1988). 'Aristotle on the multiplicity of being,' Pacific Philosophical Quarterly.
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keyword: izzing, hazzing. 

This was edited by B. F. Loar, and it is due mainly to Grice's joint work with Aristotelian specialist ("Philosophy like virtue is entire") Alan D. Code, and it concerns two delightful Griceianisms: izzing and hazzing.

It concerns issues of 'implicature' (or 'contextual ambiguity') and it can be considered Oxonian in that it deals with G. E. L. Owens's The Snares of Ontology. Owens is Grice's senior by far, and as Owens wrote in his obituary of Gilbert Ryle for the Aristotelian Society, Owens belonged to another group than Grice's -- "even if Grice's followers are more reverential than Ryle's!"). 

COLLABORATION

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Grice, H. P. & J. Baker, (1985). 'Davidson on weakness of the will,' in M. Hintikka and B. Vermazen. Oxford: Clarendon Press.
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Trust Grice (here with Baker) to come to the defense of the underdogma! Davidson is here saying there is no such thing as 'akrasia' and Grice feels like proving him wrong! And he does!

Preferred citation:

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Grice, H. P. (1989). Studies in the Way of Words. Harvard. A version of the Harvard lectures on logic and conversation (Part I) plus a compilation of essays on 'semantics and metaphysics' (Part II). It includes a Foreword (crediting Bennett) and a rich 'Retrospective Epilogue.'
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It is slightly sad, but I guess he did not care, that Grice died in August 1988, while the book was published in 1989. So it _is_ posthumous, in a way (even if Grice was cremated).

Preferred citation:

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Grice, H. P. (1991). The conception of value, being the Paul Carus Lectures. Oxford: Clarendon Press.
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This was edited by J. Baker, but don't spread the word!

Preferred citation:

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Grice, H. P. (2001). Aspects of reason, being the John Locke lectures. Oxford: Clarendon Press.
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This was edited by R. O. Warner, but don't spread the word!

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When it comes to THE "UNPUBLICATIONS" OF H. P. GRICE, some implicatures should be noted.

The title 'unpublication' should be self-explanatory. It is a common practice among philosophers to have stuff followed by the abbreviation (w.i.p., work in progress), or "unpubl.". If x is "unpubl.," it means it is unpublished. If if it is unpublished, once can follow Mary Poppins and say it constitutes an 'unpublication.'

When it comes to the 'unpublications' by Grice, as, say, found at the Bancroft, it's best to proceed by noting the typos and other mistakes in the 'official' non-official guide.

THE UNPUBLICATIONS OF H. P. GRICE are a difficult anima.

The 'unpublications' of H. P. Grice should be divided into:

A) Items NOT contained at the Bancroft (e.g. "Definite descriptions in Russell and in the Vernacular." -- Grice papers -- The Speranza Collection --. 

B) ITEMS CONTAINED in the Grice Archives THE BANCROFT.

For (A), we could also include some items which do not quite correspond with the items as catalogued by David Farrelll and the staff at Bancroft

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Grice, H. P. (n.d.). 'PG's incomplete Phil and ordinary language paper,' H. P. Grice Papers, BANC MSS 90/135c, The Bancroft Library, University of California, Berkeley.
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Grice, H. P. (1964). 'Logic and conversation (notes 1964),' H. P. Grice Papers, BANC MSS 90/135c, The Bancroft Library, University of California, Berkeley. 
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Grice, H. P. (1977). 'Course descriptions and faculty information, fall quarter 1977,' The H. P. Grice Papers, BANC MSS 90/135c, The Bancroft Library, University of California, Berkeley.
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Grice, H. P. (1981). 'Odd notes Spring 1981,' The H. P. Grice, BANC MSS 90/135c, The Bancroft Library, University of California, Berkeley. 
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Grice, H. P. (n.d.). 'Reference and presupposition,' H. P. Grice Papers, BANC MSS 90/135c, The Bancroft Library, University of California, Berkeley. 
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Grice, H. P. (n.d.) 'Notes,' The H. P. Grice Papers, BANC MSS 90/135c, The Bancroft Library, University of California, Berkeley. 
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Grice, H. P. (n.d.). 'Festschrift notes (miscellaneous),' The H. P. Grice Papers, BANC MSS 90/135c, The Bancroft Library, University of California, Berkeley. 
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Grice, H. P. (n.d.). 'Prejudices and predilections, which become the life and opinions of Paul Grice, The H. P. Grice Papers, BANC MSS 90/135c, The Bancroft Library, University of California, Berkeley. 
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Grice, H. P. (1978) Tape, 'PG seminar I Metaphysics S '78,' The H. P. Grice Papers, BANC MSS 90/135c, The Bancroft Library, The University of California, Berkeley.
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Grice, H. P. (n.d.). 'Recent work,' The H. P. Grice Papers, BANC 90/135c, The Bancroft Library, University of California, Berkeley.
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Grice, H. P. (1983). 'Tape, January 29, Conversation with J. Baker and R. Warner,' The H. P. Grice Papers, BANC MSS 90/135c, The Bancroft Library, University of California, Berkeley.
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Grice, H. P. (n.d.). 'Notes for syntax and semantics,' The H. P. Grice Papers, BANC MSS 90/135c, The Bancroft Library, University of California, Berkeley. 
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Grice, H. P. (n.d.) 'Richards paper and notes for "Reply",' The H. P. Grice Papers, BANC MSS 90/135c, The Bancroft Library, University of California, Berkeley. 
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Grice, H. P. (n.d.). 'Lecture I: lectures on language and reality,' The H. P. Grice Papers, BANC MSS 90/135c, The Bancroft Library, University of California, Berkeley. 
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Grice, H. P. (n.d.). 'Philosophy at Oxford 1945-1970,' The H. P. Grice Papers, BANC MSS 90/135c, The Bancroft Library, University of California, Berkeley. 
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Grice, H. P. (n.d.). 'Odd notes: Urbana and non Urbana,' The H. P. Grice Papers, BANC MSS 90/135c, The Bancroft Library, University of California, Berkeley. 
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Grice, H. P. (n.d.). 'Tapes,' The H. P. Grice Papers, BANC MSS 90/135c, The Bancroft Library, University of California, Berkeley.
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Grice, H. P. (n.d.). 'Preliminary valediction,' The H. P. Grice Papers, BANC MSS 90/135c, The Bancroft Library, University of California, Berkeley. 
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Grice, H. P. (n.d.) Unsorted notes, The H. P. Grice Papers, BANC MSS 90/135c, The Bancroft Library, University of California, Berkeley. 
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----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------Grice, H. P. (1938). 'Negation and privation,' The H. P. Grice Papers, BANC MSS 90/135c, The Bancroft Library, University of California, Berkeley. 
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Grice, H. P. (n.d.). 'Dispositions and intention,' H. P. Grice Papers, BANC MSS 90/135c, The Bancroft Library, The University of California, Berkeley. 
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Grice, H. P. (n.d.). 'Lectures on Peirce,' H. P. Grice Papers, BANC MSS 90/135c, The Bancroft Library, The University of California, Berkeley. 
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It should be pointed out that it does not seem too hard to see how the items cited above fit with the items catalogued by David Farrell at the Bancroft. 

As to (B), there is: The so-called "Series I" (The Correspondence of H. P. Grice), Carton I, Folders 1-15. H. P. Grice's Personal Correspondence. It ranges from 1947 to 1988.

Carton 1 -- From Folder 1 to Folder 15 -- Grice's personal correspondence is arranged alphabetically by surname of correspondee. Grice's personal correspondence is followed by general correspondence. "Series I" includes correspondence with Grice's student and colleague Judith Baker, and, inter alii, colleagues G. P. Bealer, R. O. Warner, and R.. Wyatt,,addressing various forms of his research on philosophy.

Grice's correspondence with JONATHAN BENNETT -- Carton 1 -- Folder 1 

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Grice, H. P. (1984). Correspondence with J. F. Bennett, The H. P. Grice Papers, Series I, Carton I, Folder 1, BANC MSS 90/135c, The Bancroft Library, University of California, Berkeley. 
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Bennett, Jonathan -- or Bennett, J. F., if you must. Circa 1984. Bennett is the author of "Linguistic behaviour" -- Cited by Speranza, "On the way of conversation." He wrote a review of Grandy/Warner, PGRICE, for the TLS, entitled, "In the tradition of Kantotle." The phrase stuck.

Grice's correspondence with JUDITH BAKER (Grice's student at Berkeley)
Carton 1, Folder 2.

Preferred citation:

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Grice, H. P. (n.d.). Correspondence with J. Baker, The H. P. Grice Papers, Series I, Carton 1, Folder 2, BANC MSS 90/135c, The Bancroft Library, University of California, Berkeley.
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Baker, Judith. Undated. Baker -- correspondence with Speranza. Baker got her PhD under Grice at Berkeley before moving to Glendon. Her hobbies including tending an inner-city garden!

Grice's correspondence with GEORGE P. BEALER (Grice's student at Reed). Carton 1, Folder 3. 

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Grice, H. P. (1987). Correspondence with G. P. Bealer, The H. P. Grice Papers, Series I, Carton 1, Folder 3, BANC MSS 90/135c, The Bancroft Library, University of California, Berkeley.
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Bealer, George P.  -- 1987 -- Bealer -- correspondence with Speranza -- Bealer knew Grice from his (Grice's, that is) seminars at Reed -- the "Athens of the West," as Grice did not call it!

Grice's correspondence with ALAN DODDS CODE (Grice's student and colleague at UC/Berkeley). Carton 1, Folder 4. 

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Grice, H. P. (1980). Correspondence with A. D. Code, The H. P. Grice Papers, Series I, Carton 1, Folder 4, BANC MSS 90/135c, The Bancroft Library, University of California, Berkeley. 
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Code, Alan Dodds. 1980. Code is cited by R. B. Jones and Speranza in their analysis of "Aristotle's metaphysics." Code popularised Grice's coinages of 'izzing' and 'hazzing' for, respectively, essential and accidental properties.
KEYWORD: KANTOTLE.

Grice's correspondence with PATRICK SUPPES (Grice's friend -- a Stanford connection -- "Hands across the bay"). Carton 1. From Folder 5 to Folder 6. 

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Grice, H. P. (1982). Correspondence with P. Suppes, The H. P. Grice Papers, Series I, Carton 1, Folders 5 and 6, BANC MSS 90/135c, The Bancroft Library, University of California, Berkeley.
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Suppes, Patrick -- from 1977 to 1982 -- Suppes contributed on "The primacy of utterer's meaning" to P. G. R. I. C. E., ed. by the Richards -- Richard Warner and Richard Grandy or vice versa. In this essay, Suppes responds to anti-Griceian criticism by Chomsky, Biro, and Yu. Vide: Speranza, correspondence with Biro. Biro in fact wrote a response to Suppes's response! Suppes, contra Chomsky, rightly deems Grice an 'intentionalist,' never a 'behaviourist,' as Chomsky wants him in the John Locke lectures on "Reflections on language."

Grice's correspondence with RICHARD ORVILLE WARNER (Grice's student at UC/Berkeley). Carton 1. From Folder 7 to Folder 8

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Grice, H. P. (1975). Correspondence with R. O. Warner, The H. P. Grice Papers, Series I, Carton 1, Folders 7 and 8, BANC MSS 90/135c, The Bancroft Library, University of California, Berkeley. 
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Warner, Richard O. 
From 1971 to 1975. Warner got his PhD under Grice at Berkeley. He was especially relevant (if that's the word) in Grice's presentation of the Carus lectures, and has lovely reminiscences of his (Warner's, that is) time up the Berkeley Hills with Grice!

CORRESPONDENCE WITH R. WYATT. Grice's correspondence with RICHARD WYATT. Carton 1, Folder 9. 1981.

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Grice, H. P. (1981). Correspondence with R. Wyatt, The H. P. Grice Papers, Series I, Carton 1, Folder 9, BANC MSS 90/135c, The Bancroft Library, University of California, Berkeley.
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General correspondence to H. P. Grice. From 1947 to 1986. Carton 1. From Folder 10 to Folder 12.

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Grice, H. P. (1986). General correspondence, The H. P. Grice Papers, Series I, Carton 1, Folders 10-12, BANC MSS 90/135c, The Bancroft Library, University of California, Berkeley.
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General correspondence. Ranging from 1972 to 1988. Carton 1. From Folder 13 to Folder 14

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H. P. Grice (1988). 'Correspondence,' The H. P. Grice Papers, Series I, Carton, Folders 13 and 14, BANC MSS 90/135c, The Bancroft Library, The University of California, Berkeley. 
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Various published papers on Grice
1968
Carton 1, Folder 15. --

Preferred citation:

Grice, H. P. (1968). 'Papers,' The H. P. Grice Papers, Series I, Carton 1, Folder 15, BANC MSS 90/135c, The Bancroft Library, The University of California, Berkeley.

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"Series II"

The so-called (by the Bancroftians and the Griceians alike) "Grice's Series II" consists of publications by H. P. Grice.


These publications range from 1957 to 1989.
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They include: Carton 1, from Folder 16 to Folder 31, and Carton 2 to Carton 4.

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Grice's publications are, oddly, arranged chronologically rather than alphabetically!

The publications are arranged alphabetically, though, for those publications without dates! (We *had* to arrange them -- some_how_!)
Series II (so-called) includes:
Grice's published 'papers,' or "publicactions," as he preferred (to oppose them to his 'unpublications,' of which he was so proud -- "I'm such a perfectionist!").

Drafts and notes by Grice that accompany their publications.

Upublished papers along with their drafts and/or notes, and
Published transcripts of his various lectures (the William James, Urbana, Carus, John Locke lectures).

Also included in Series II is Grice's own volume "Studies in the Way of Words" (1989) which is compilation of all his other published works including, "Meaning," "Utterer's Meaning," and "Logic and Conversation."

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Grice's "Meaning."
1957 
Carton 1, Folder 16

Preferred citation:

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Grice, H. P. (1948). 'Meaning,' The H. P. Grice Papers, Series II, Carton 1, Folder 16, BANC MSS 90/135c, The Bancroft Library, University of California, Berkeley.
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-- repr. in WoW (Way of Words)

Published in "The Philosophical Review" -- but actually written by Grice in 1948 (as stated in WoW -- Way of Words). The paper was first presented at the Oxford Philosophical Society. It influenced H. L. A. Hart in his review of Holloway for the Philosophical Quarterly. It can be seen as a development of Grice's seminars of Peirce's krypto-technicisms on 'semeiotic.'


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"Meaning Revisited" 
1957
From 1976 to 1980
Carton 1. From Folder 17 to Folder 18

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Grice, H. P. (1980). 'Meaning revisited,' The H. P. Grice Papers, Series II,, Carton 1, Folders 17 and 18, BANC MSS 90/135c, The Bancroft Libray, The University of California, Berkeley.
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-- repr. in WoW (Way of Words)

Grice's essay, "Meaning revisited," was presented at a symposium in Brighton. It was repr. by Grice in his WoW. It basically concerns the application of Grice's modified Occam razor to the lexeme "mean"!


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"Oxford Philosophy" 
"Linguistic Botanizing"
Carton 1, Folder 19
1958

Preferred citations:

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Grice, H. P. (1958). 'Oxford philosophy,' The H. P. Grice Papers, Series II, Carton 1, Folder 19, BANC MSS 90/135c, The Bancroft Library, The University of California, Berkeley.
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NOT REPRINTED. Vide, Grice, forthcoming. 

Note the spelling "botanising," rather than 'botanizing.'
Grice said he owed the method of linguistic botany (as he otherwise preferred) to J. L. Austin, his senior at Oxford, and leader of the "Play Group." Austin (vide, Speranza, and Hampshire, unpublication) in fact led TWO Play Groups at Oxford. Grice never attended the _first_ play group, having been 'born on the wrong side of the tracks,' as he would later reminisce!

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"Descartes on 'Clear and Distinct Perception'" -- 
1966. 
Carton 1, Folder 20.

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Grice, H. P. (1966). 'Descartes on clear and distinct perception,' The H. P. Grice Papers, Series II, Carton 1, Folder 20, BANC MSS 90/135c, The Bancroft Library, University of California, Berkeley.
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KEYWORD: DESCARTES. The Descartes Society of Oxford should do something about this. Pity there is no Descartes Society at Oxford!

This item was reprinted in WoW -- Way of Words. Grice distinguishes between subjective certainty ("I am certain that p") and objective certainty ("It is certain that p"). Unfortunately, Descartes didn't!


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"Logic and Conversation." 
From 1966 to 1975
Carton 1. From Folder 21 to Folder 23

Preferred citation:

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-- repr. in WoW, Way of Words -- as Part I. Part II Grice pretentiously called, "Essays on Semantics and Metaphysics."

The lectures were actually given in the spring term of 1967. Grice was giving seminars at Oxford on "Logic and Conversation" -- and using 'implicature'! -- at an earlier date. For Harvard, he compiled a 'grand programme' which 'echoed Kant' -- hence his jocular use of terms like 'conversational category' (there are four of them!), and 'conversational maxim.' The idea that the maxims follow from a general 'imperative' is Kantian in nature too ("I am enough of a rationalist to call myself a Kantian!")

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The William James Lectures on Logic and Conversation, Harvard. 

Carton 1. From Folder 24 to Folder 26.

Preferred citation:

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Grice, H. P. (1967). Logic and conversation, being the William James lectures,' The H. P. Grice, Series II, Carton 1, Folders 24-26, BANC MSS 90/135c, The Bancroft Library, University of California, Berkeley.
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-- repr. in WoW -- Way of Words, as Part I. 

Untitled -- Later entitled as follows:


Lecture I: "Prolegomena"

Lecture II: "Logic and Conversation" (proper)

Lecture III: "Further notes on logic and conversation" (Grice could be unimaginative, too!)

Lecture IV: "Indicative conditionals" (never subjective!)

Lecture V: "Utterer's meaning and intentions" (citing Urmson, Searle, Schiffer, Stampe, Patton, etc.)

Lecture VI: "Utterer's meaning, sentence meaning, and word meaning" (later repr. in The Foundations of Language)

Lecture VII: "Some models for implicature"

Harvard
1967, Spring Term.

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"Utterer's Meaning, Sentence-Meaning, and Word-Meaning" -- 1968
Carton 1, Folder 27.

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Grice, H. P. (1967). 'Utterer's meaning, sentence meaning, and word meaning,' The H. P. Grice Papers, Series II, Carton 1, Folder 27, BANC MSS 90/135c, The Bancroft Library, University of California, Berkeley.
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Repr. as Essay VI in WoW, Way of Words.

This item, which is the sixth William James lecture, was published in The Foundations of Language, ed. by Grice's colleague, J. F. Staal.
It was utilised by Searle to popularise Grice in Searle, "The Philosophy of Language," Oxford -- a reprint used by Chomsky in criticising Grice in "Reflections on language."

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"Utterer's Meaning and Intentions" -- 
1969
Carton 1. From Folder 28 to Folder 30.

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Grice, H. P. (1967). 'Utterer's meaning and intentions,' The H. P. Grice Papers, Series II, Carton 1, Folders 28-30, BANC MSS 90/135c, The Bancroft Library, University of California, Berkeley.
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Repr. as Essay V in WoW, Way of Words.

This item, which is actually the fifth William James lecture, was published in "The Philosophical Review." It contains Grice's response to criticisms to his earlier account of 'meaning' (in 1948) by Strawson, Searle, Schiffer, Urmson, Patton, Stame, and others.

Repr. in Grice, WoW.


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"Vacuous Names"
1969
Carton 1, Folder 31

Vide citation below.

To be reprinted in Grice, "Philosophical Papers."

This item was written by Grice -- with the collaboration of G. Myro -- for a festschrift for W. V. O. Quine (one of Grice's two 'mentors' -- the other being Chomsky).

Grice creates a System Q -- Myro will later re-name this system System G -- or System G-hp (a highly plausible, or hopefully powerful) version of Grice's system Q -- "in gratitude" to Grice.


For preferred citation see next item.

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Carton 2. From Folders 1 to Folder 4 
"Vacuous Names" -- 1969 (continued)

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Grice, H. P. (1969). 'Vacuous names,' The H. P. Grice Papers, Series II, Carton I, Folder 31, and Carton II, Folders 1-4, BANC MSS 90/135c, The Bancroft Library, University of California, Berkeley.
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To be reprinted in Grice, "Philosophical Papers" -- with Quine's reply included.

Grice quotes from various logicians, like B. Mates, G. Myro, and others. The section on "Definite descriptions" has been reprinted elsewhere.


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The Urbana Lectures -- the first eight lectures -- From Lecture I to Lecture VIII. 
From 1970 to 1971
Carton 2. From Folder 5 to Folder 7.

For preferred citation, see next item.

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Carton 2, Folder 8.

The Urbana Lectures 
The final lecture. Lecture IX 
From 1970 to 1971

Preferred citation:

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Grice, H. P. (1971). 'Urbana seminars,' The H. P. Grice Papers, BANC MSS 90/135c, The Bancroft Library, University of California, Berkeley. 
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Grice, H. P. (1970). 'Urbana lectures,' The H. P. Grice Papers, Carton II, Folders 5-8, BANC MSS 9/135c, The Bancroft Library, University of California, Berkeley. 
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"Intention and Uncertainty" 
Circa 1971
Carton 2. From Folder 9 to Folder 10. 

Preferred citation:

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Grice, H. P. (1971). 'Intention and uncertainty,' The H. P. Grice Papers, Series II, Carton II, Folders 9 and 10, BANC MSS 90/135c, The Bancroft Library, University of California, Berkeley.
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To be reprinted in Grice, "Philosophical Papers," Clarendon Press.

This was the Philosophical Lecture at the British Academy, and accordingly published in the Academy's proceedings. It presents a form of neo-Prichardianism, after work done by J. O. Urmson on Prichard on "willing that."

Grice manages to quote from Kenny (Kenny not knowing this), Prichard, and a few others. 


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"Probability, Desirability, and Mood Operators" 

Carton 2, Folder 11


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Grice, H. P. (1973). 'Probability, desirability and mood operators,' The H. P. Grice Papers, Series II, Carton II, Folder 11, BANC MSS 90/135c, The Bancroft Library, University of California, Berkeley. 

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To be reprinted in Grice, "Philosophical Papers," Clarendon Press.

From 1971 to 1973. 

This was presented in a conference -- but remained unpublished "for technical reasons" (Preface to the proceedings of the conference).

In his influential "Pragmatics," S. C. Levinson misquotes this 'unpublication' as "Probability, Defeasibility, and Mood Operators."

At Stanford, Grice learned to realise that his 'mood' wasn't a 'mood' (Moravcsik). Grice would later refer to his things as 'modes'!


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The Paul Carus Lectures on The Conception of Value, American Philosophical Association 

Carton 2. From Folder 12 to Folder 13

Grice, H. P. (1981). vide citation below. 

repr. as Grice 1991.

Lectures I-III
1973
The Conception of Value

For preferred citation, see next item.

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Carton 2. From Folder 14 to Folder 16

The Paul Carus Lectures on the Conception of Value, American Philosophical Association 
1986
The Conception of Value.

Preferred citation:

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Grice, H. P. (1981). 'The conception of value, being the Paul Carus lectures,' The H. P. Grice Papers, Series II, Carton II, Folders 12-16, BANC MSS 90/135c, The Bancroft Library, University of California, Berkeley. 
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Repr. as Grice 1991. 

The final version was edited by R. O. Warner for Clarendon Press.


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"Reply to Davidson on 'Intending'" 
1974
Carton 2. From Folder 17 to Folder 18.

Preferred citation:

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Grice, H. P. (1974). 'Reply to Davidson on "Intending,"' The H. P. Grice Papers, Series II, Carton II, Folders 17 and 18, BANC MSS 90/135c, The Bancroft Library, University of California, Berkeley.
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To be reprinted in Grice, "Philosophical Papers," Clarendon Press.

Davidson loved this reply and refers to it in his own publications. It concerns the idea as to whether the analysis of '... intends...' requires a clause specifying what the intentional agent 'believes.'

Grice notes that Davidson's proposal that it does, based on Grice's idea of 'implicature,' seems "too social" to be true!

The thing is discussed by D. F. Pears in his fascinating "Motivated Irrationality." D. F. Pears loved Grice, and his love was mutual!


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"Method in Philosophical Psychology: from the banal to the bizarre," 1974. Carton 2. From Folder 19 to Folder 21. 

Preferred citation:
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Grice, H. P. (1975). 'Method in philosophical psychology: from the banal to the bizarre,' The H. P. Grice Papers, Series II, Carton II, Folders 19-21, BANC MSS 90/135c, The Bancroft Library, University of California, Berkeley.
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repr. in Grice 1991. 
The Presidential Address at the American Philosophical (not Psychological!) Association. It bears the subtitle, very Griceian, "from the banal to the bizarre"

Grice quotes from Aristotle, Lewis, and a few others! He introduces Toby, the squarrel (sic) -- and a few other monstrosities. He also credits G. Myro for a note on the devil of scientism!


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"Two Chapters on Incontinence". With Judith Baker. Circa 1976. Carton 2. From Folder 22 to Folder 23


Preferred citation:
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Grice, H. P. and J. Baker (1976). 'Incontinence,' The H. P. Grice Papers, Series II, Carton II, Folders 22 and 23, BANC MSS 90/135c, The Bancroft Library, The University of California, Berkeley.
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Grice would prefer 'a-krasia' (He held a Lit. Hum., i.e. classics, rather than any degree in philosophy proper!)

One 'chapter' would become Grice's and Baker's tribute to Davidson, for whom 'akrasia' is (conceptually) impossible! (Davidson is working on probability calculus).


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"Further Notes on Logic and Conversation" -- Circa 1977. Carton 2, Folder 24. 

Preferred citation:
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Grice, H. P. (1967). 'Further notes on logic and conversation,' The H. P. Grice Papers, Series II, Carton II, Folder 24, BANC MSS 90/135c, The Bancroft Library, University of California, Berkeley.
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Repr. in Grice, WoW, Way of Words.

This is the third William James lecture, repr. in a "Syntax and Semantics" volume.

The title, unimaginative as they come, is from P. Cole's reprint. It is mainly a discussion of Grice's modified Occam (or Ockham, if you live in Surrey) razor!


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"Presupposition and Conversational Implicature" -- From 1977 to 1981. Carton 2, Folder 25. 

Preferred citation:

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Grice, H.. P. (1981). 'Presupposition and conversational implicature,' The H. P. Grice Papers, Series II, Carton II, Folder 25, BANC MSS 90/135c, The Bancroft Library, University of California, Berkeley.
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This is repr. in WoW (Way of Words)

This is quoted differently by Bealer. Grice entitled one version as "Definite descriptions in Russell and in the vernacular." It is also cited by authors working on the negation of definite descriptions.

Grice adds a 'manner' maxim to deal with stuff. He also, more importantly, introduces the square-bracket device for 'common ground' assignment, that has been usefully applied by Harnish in his influential essay on 'Implicature and logical form.'


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"Freedom and Morality in Kant's 'Foundations'" 

1978. 
Carton 2. From Folder 26 to Folder 28. 

Preferred citation:

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Grice, H. P. (1978). 'Freedom and morality in Kant's 'Foundations,'' The H. P. Grice Papers, Series II, Carton II, Folders 26-28, BANC MSS 90/135c, The Bancroft Library, University of California, Berkeley.
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This is one of Grice's 'historical' essays. Kantotle was his favourite author, so no wonder!

Unfortunately, at Berkeley, Grice could not just teach Grice, but had to teach a bit of Kant and a bit of Aristotle ("a bit of Kantotle," as he preferred!)


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The John Locke Lectures "Aspects of Reason," Oxford

1979. 
Carton 2. From Folder 29 to Folder 30.

Preferred citation:

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Grice, H. P. (1979). 'Aspects of reason, being the John Locke Lectures, Oxford,' The H. P. Grice Papers, Series II, Carton II, Folders 29 and 30, BANC MSS 90/135c, The Bancroft Library, University of California, Berkeley.
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Repr. by R. O. Warner for the Clarendon Press as Grice 2001.

You cannot teach at Oxford to give the John Locke lectures. Grice wasn't -- at the time! He had a lovely prologue where he admits he once failed the Locke scholarship! (Grice's associations with Oxford were: Corpus Christi, his alma mater; Merton, and finally St. John's, where he became a Tutorial Fellow in Philosophy, and University Lecturer.


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"Actions and Events
" -- Circa 1985
Carton 3. From Folder 1 to Folder 5

Preferred citation:

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Grice, H. P. (1986). 'Actions and events,' The H. P. Grice Papers, Series II, Carton III, Folders 1-5, BANC MSS 90/135c, The Bancroft Library, University of California, Berkeley.
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Repr. in the Pacific Philosophical Quarterly.

Published in the Pacific Philosophical Quarterly.
A rather mixed bag -- A discussion of Davidson, et al. 

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"Post-War Oxford Philosophy
1986
Carton 3, Folder 6. 

Preferred citation:

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Grice, H. P. (1986). 'Post-war Oxford philosophy,' The H. P. Grice Papers, Series II, Carton III, Folder 6, BANC MSS 90/135c, The Bancroft Library, University of California, Berkeley.
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Repr. as Essay in Grice, WoW -- Way of Words. 

During the Second World War, Oxford was closed! But Grice's 'postwar' philosophy was certainly shaped in the pre-war years!

Grice fought in the war, and retired as a captain! The later years of the war he spent at the Admiralty in London ("A nightingale sang in Berkeley Square").


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"Studies in the Way of Words" 

Carton 3. From Folder 7 to Folder 21

Preferred citation:

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Grice, H. P. (1987). 'Studies in the way of words,' The H. P. Grice Papers, Series II, Carton III, Folders 7-21, BANC MSS 90/135c, The Bancroft Library, University of California, Berkeley.
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Repr. as WoW, Way of Words (Harvard)
From 1986 to 1989.

The phrase, 'way of words,' is Lockean in nature. "Studies" is not! As Yolton shows, Locke distinguishes three ways:

-- the way of things
-- the way of ideas
-- the way of words

The way of words is the most superficial, hence its appeal to Grice!


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"Retrospective Foreword" 

1987
Carton 3. From Folder 22 to Folder 25
Repr. in WoW -- Way of Words.

This becomes 'Retrospective Epilogue' (or "Valediction"). It was basically a stream-of-consciousness thing that Grice writes once the compilation for WoW has been made. He distinguishes a couple (of) strands, which helps.


See below for preferred citation.

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Carton 3, Folder 26

"Retrospective Epilogue" -- continued. 
1987
Repr. in WoW, Way of Words.

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Carton 4, Folder 1. 

"Retrospective Epilogue" (continued)

1987

See citation below.

Repr. in WoW, Way of Words.

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Carton 4, Folder 2

"Retrospective Epilogue" (continued) and "Foreword" 

1987

Preferred citation:

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Grice, H. P. (1987). 'Retrospective Epilogue,' The H. P. Grice Papers, Series II, Carton III, Folders 22-25, BANC MSS 90/135c, The Bancroft Library, University of California, Berkeley.
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A revision of WoW.

Preferred citation:

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Grice, H. P. (1987). 'Foreword to Studies in the Way of Words,' The H. P. Grice Papers, BANC MSS 90/135c, The Bancroft Library, University of California, Berkeley.
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Repr. in WoW, Way of Words.

In the "Foreword," Grice acknowledges Bennett's suggestion to order the WoW papers differently, but never follows it!


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"Metaphysics, Philosophical Eschatology, and Plato's Republic" 

1988
Carton 4. From Folder 3 to Folder 4 

Preferred citation:

---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------Grice, H. P. (1987). 'Metaphysics, philosophical eschatology, and Plato's Republic,' The H. P. Grice Papers, Series II, Carton IV, Folders 3 and 4, BANC MSS 90/135c, The Bancroft Library, University of California, Berkeley.
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Repr. as Essay in Grice, WoW (Way of Words)

This is reprinted in WoW (Way of Words). Plato was NOT one of Grice's favourite authors, but he (Grice, that is) is interested in providing an 'eschatological' analysis of 'right' along neo-Socratic lines.


KEYWORD: Plato
KEYWORD: Plato's republic
KEYWORD: eschatology

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Grice's Reprints
From 1953 to 1986
Carton 4, Folder 5. 

Good reprints!
The journals would send them and Grice kept them!

Preferred citation:

Grice, H. P. (1986). 'Papers,' The H. P. Grice Papers, Series II, Carton IV, Folder 5, BANC MSS 90/135c, The Bancroft Library, University of California, Berkeley.

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"Aristotle on Being and Good"
Undated. 
Carton 4, Folder 6. 

Preferred citation:

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Grice, H. P. (n.d.). 'Aristotle on being and good,' The H. P. Grice Papers, Series II, Carton IV, Folder 6, BANC MSS 90/135c, The Bancroft Library, University of California, Berkeley.
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Part of this becomes "Aristotle on the multiplicity of being." With Kant, Aristotle was Grice's favourite author ("Kantotle").


KEYWORD: Aristotle
KEYWORD: being
KEYWORD: the good

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"Aristotle on the Multiplicity of Being" 

Undated
Carton 4, Folder 7. 

Preferred citation:

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Grice, H. P. (1988). 'Aristotle on the multiplicity of being,' The H. P. Grice Papers, Series II, Carton IV, Folder 7, BANC MSS 90/135c, The Bancroft Library, University of California, Berkeley. 
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Repr. in The Pacific Philosophical Quarterly.

Repr. posthumously by B. F. Loar (when Loar was at USC) for the Pacific Philosophical Quarterly

Cfr. Code and Grice on Aristotle on 'izzing' and 'hazzing'. Grice is mainly criticising the Oxford philosopher G. E. L. Owens in "The snares of ontology."


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"Aristotle: Pleasure" -- 
Undated.
Carton 4, Folder 8. 

Preferred citation:

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Grice, H. P. (n.d.). 'Aristotle on pleasure,' The H. P. Grice Papers, Series II, Carton IV, Folder 8, BANC MSS 90/135c, The Bancroft Library, University of California, Berkeley.
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Aristotle, with Kant ("Kantotle"), was one of Grice's favourite philosophers.

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"Conversational Implicative" 
Undated
Carton 4, Folder 9. 

Preferred citation:

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Grice, H. P. (1964). 'Conversational implicature,' The H. P. Grice Papers, Series II, Carton IV, Folder 9, BANC MSS 90/135c, The Bancroft Library, University of California, Berkeley. 
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That shoud read or implicate 'implicature'!


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"Negation I" -- 
Undated -- 1938
Carton 4, Folder 10

Preferred citation:

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Grice, H. P. (1938). 'Negation,' The H. P. Grice Papers, Series II, Carton IV, Folder 10, BANC MSS 90/135c, The Bancroft Library, University of California, Berkeley. 
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Cfr. Speranza on Grice on negation
This is the first essay by Grice ever -- it bears his Harborne address! (Although it was written with a view to his Corpus Christi courses).

A discussion of Bradley, using variables like "The A is not B." "Negation and Privation" should be a better title.


Possibly Grice's first publication. So The Bancroft Library is being slightly vague when they state the material ranges from 1941.

This is vintage 1930s -- 'the swinging thirties'. Note that a label for an audio-tape also reads, "Oxford philosophy in the 1930s and 1940s."

Grice felt very much part of the younger generation that got his education at Oxford in the 1930s -- fresh from Clifton, as he was! ("A Midlands scholarship boy," destined to 'The House,' aka Corpus).

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"Negation II" -- 
Undated -- 1961. 
Carton 4, Folder 11. 

Preferred citation:

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Grice, H. P. (1961). 'Negation,' The H. P. Grice Papers, Series II, Carton IV, Folder 11, BANC MSS 90/135c, The Bancroft Library, University of California, Berkeley.
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Cfr. Speranza on Grice on negation
A view of 'not' as 'uniguous.'
One of the few unpublications cited by Grandy/Warner, PGRICE. A good antecedent for Grice's treatment of the logical operators as a response to Strawson's hasty treatment in "Introduction to logical theory."

Grandy/Warner have this as "Lectures on negation." Does it matter? It does. If it is meant as a 'lecture' (as opposed to "Negation I"), Grice tended towards the patronising side, and towards the jocular side, too. Like a music-hall artist, he had a knack for timing and relied on his addressee's laughter and stuff.

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"Personal Identity" (including notes on Hume) 
Undated. 
Carton 4, Folder 12. 

Preferred citation:

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Grice, H. P. (1941). 'Personal identity,' The H. P. Grice Papers, Series II, Carton IV, Folder 12, BANC MSS 90/135c, The Bancroft Library, University of California, Berkeley. 
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This was repr. in Mind 1941 (pre-war!), and later (oh so much later) by Perry in his University of California Press compilation on "Personal Identiy." It is a Lockean defense of "I" (or personal pronouns generally) in terms of 'mnemonic states.'

In "Personal identity," Grice quotes from Gallie, and many others, such as Broad, Locke, Reid, etc. It is a fascinating paper, if you are into that sort of thing!


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"Philosopher's Paradoxes" 

Undated. -- But Grice dated them when he reprinted it in WoW.
Carton 4, Folder 13. 

Preferred citation:

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Grice, H. P. (n.d.). 'Philosopher's paradoxes,' The H. P. Grice Papers, Series II, Carton IV, Folder 13, BANC MSS 90/135c, The Bancroft Library, University of California, Berkeley. 
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This was repr. in WoW (Way of Words). It is a historical essay on Malcolm and Moore.


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"A Philosopher's Prospectus"

Undated. 
Carton 4, Folder 14. 

Preferred citation:

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"Philosophy and Ordinary Language" 

Undated. 
Carton 4, Folder 15. 

Preferred citation:

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Grice, H. P. (n.d.). 'Philosophy and ordinary language,' The H. P. Grice Papers, Series II, Carton IV, Folder 15, BANC MSS 90/135c, The Bancroft Library, The University of California, Berkeley.
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Note the NON-USE of 'ordinary language philosophy'!


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"Some Reflections about Ends and Happiness

Undated
Carton 4, Folder 16. 

Preferred citation:

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Grice, H. P. (n.d.). 'Some reflections about ends and happiness,' The H. P. Grice Papers, Series II, Carton IV, Folder 16, BANC MSS 90/135c, The Bancroft Library, University of California, Berkeley. 
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This was included by R. O. Warner as an appendix to the Locke lectures (Clarendon Press). It quotes from Ackrill.


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"Reflections on Morals" -- 
With Judith Baker
Undated. 
Carton 4. From Folder 17 to Folder 25 ("a book-length piece.")

Preferred citation:

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Grice, H. P. and J. Baker (n.d.). 'Reflections on morals,' The H. P. Grice Papers, Series II, Carton IV, Folders 17-25, BANC MSS 90/135c, The Bancroft Library, University of California, Berkeley. 
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Some of these were repr. by Baker in her essay on Grice in "Meaning and analysis".

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"Reply to G. E. M. Anscombe" -- 
Undated. 
Carton 4, Folder 26. 

Preferred citation:

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Grice, H. P. (n.d.). 'Reply to G. E. M. Anscombe,' The H. P. Grice Papers, Series II, Carton IV, Folder 26, BANC MSS 90/135c, The Bancroft Library, University of California, Berkeley. 
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Anscombe never heard it!

Anscombe taught at Somerville -- she NEVER attended a Play Group meeting! (neither did Geach!)


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"Reply to Richards" -- 
Undated. 
Carton 4. From Folder 27 to Folder 30.

Preferred citation:

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Grice, H. P. (n.d.). 'Reply to Richards,' The H. P. Grice Papers, Series II, Carton IV, Folders 27-30, BANC MSS 90/135c, The Bancroft Library, The University of California, Berkeley. 
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By "Richards," Grice means Richard Warner and Richard Grandy (or vice versa)
It was originally entitled, "Prejudices and predilections, which become the life and opinions of Paul Grice," by Paul Grice

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"Series III" -- The so-called "Series III" includes teaching materials -- which is a bit of a redundancy, since most of Grice's stuff came from his lecturing obligations!
Series III ranges from 1964 to 1983
The series includes Carton 5 and Carton 6, folders 1-3. The items are arranged chronologically. Again, they are arranged alphabetically for those teaching materials without dates!
The series also includes seminars and lectures given during Grice's years as a Professor Emeritus at UC/Berkeley.

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"SERIES III"

A DETAILED CARTON-BY-CARTON, FOLDER-BY-FOLDER RUNNING COMMENTARY.


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Student Notes on Grice's Seminar 
Cornell -- 1964
Carton 5, Folder 1.

Preferred citation:

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Grice, H. P. (1964). 'Philosophical notes, Cornell,' The H. P. Grice Papers, Series III, Carton V, Folder 1, BANC MSS 90/135c, The Bancroft Library, University of California, Berkeley. 
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Grice loved Cornell -- and Cornell loved Grice!

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Grice's Seminar
1969
Carton 5, Folder 2. 

Preferred citation:

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Grice, H. P. (1969). 'Philosopical notes,' The H. P. Grice Papers, Series III, Carton V, Folder 2, BANC MSS 90/135c, The Bancroft Library, University of California, Berkeley. 

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Notes for "Philosophy 290-2"
Jointly taught with Judith Baker -- Semester of 1982. 

Carton 5, Folder 3.

Preferred citation:

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Grice, H. P. and J. Baker (1982). 'Philosophical notes,' The H. P. Grice Papers, Series III, Carton V, Folder 3, BANC MSS 90/135c, The Bancroft Library, University of California, Berkeley. 
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The section 1 was taught by someone else!

Grice conduced a number of joint seminars with Baker. Baker refers to them in her essay on "Meaning and Analysis"

This is a joint seminar -- which helped! (Lecturing was agony for Grice).


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Material for the course "Philosophy 290-2" -- Semester of 
1983
Carton 5, Folder 4. 

Preferred citation:

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The section 1 was taught by someone else (Berkeley always gives choices!)


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"Kant's Ethical Theory" 
Seminar
From 1974 to 1977.


Carton 5. From Folder 5 to Folder 6

Preferred citation:

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Grice, H. P. (1977). 'Kant's ethical theory,' The H. P. Grice Papers, Series III, Carton V, Folders 5 and 6, BANC MSS 90/135c, The Bancroft Library, University of California, Berkeley. 
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Kant, along with Aristotle ("Kantotle"), was one of Grice's favourite philosophers.

Grice would read Kant in English. When giving the William James lectures, Grice 'echoes' Kant by inventing the four conversational categories (qualitas, quantitas, relatio, modus), and the conversational maxims. In "Method in philosophical psychology" he invents the conversational immanuel that every rational pirot should follow! (vide Speranza, "The Conversational Immanuel.")


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"Aristotle's Ethics"
Seminar.
From 1975 to 1986.
Carton 5, Folder 7. 

Preferred citation:

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Grice, H. P. (1986). 'Aristotle's ethics,' The H. P. Grice Papers, Series III, Carton V, Folder 7, BANC MSS 90/135c, The Bancroft Library, University of California, Berkeley. 
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With Kant, Aristotle was one of Grice's favourite philosophers ("Kantotle").

Grice sadly realised that, unlike Oxford, at Berkeley, he could not just teach Grice, but he had to give his students a bit of "Kantotle" to "boot"!


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Notes for the course, "Philosophy 290"
Kant (so-called "Volume I")
Seminar. 
With Judith Baker
From 1976 to 1977.
Carton 5, Folder 8.

Preferred citation:

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Historical. Vide: "Kantotle." Mainly Kant's ethical theory. Grice disliked Kant's epistemology which had been murdered by Strawson at Oxford in "The Bounds of Sense"!


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"Kant's Ethics" (continued)
So-called "Volume II." 
1977
Carton 5, Folder 9.

Historical: Vide "Kantotle."

Grice is being a bit pretentious when calling these things 'volumes'. 

See next item for preferred citation.

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The Immanuel Kant Lectures
Stanford.
Carton 5. From Folder 10 to Folder 13. 
1977
repr. by R. O. Warner for The Clarendon Press.

Preferred citation:

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Grice, H. P. (1977). 'Aspects of reason, being the Immanuel Kant lectures, Stanford,' The H. P. Grice Papers, Series III, Carton V, Folders 10-13, BANC MSS 90/135c, The Bancroft Library, University of California, Berkeley.
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Moravcsik was in attendance and taught Grice to distinguish between 'mood' and 'mode.' For Grice, there are two modes: practical and alethic, and indeed, the alethic reduces to the practical -- vide Grandy, "The Journal of Philosophy".


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Notes for the course, "Philosophy 290."
Carton 5. From Folder 14 to Folder 15
From 1977 to 1978.

Preferred citation:

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Grice, H. P. (1978). 'Philosophical notes,' The H. P. Grice Papers, Series III, Carton V, Folders 14 and 15, BANC MSS 90/135c, The Bancroft Library, University of California, Berkeley. 
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Grice managed NEVER to teach an undergrad course at Berkeley!


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"Kant's Ethics"
The so-called "Volume III"
Carton 5. From Folder 16 to Folder 17
1978. 

Vide citation reference below. 

Historical: Vide: "Kantotle."

Grice is being slightly pretentious when calling these things 'volumes.' Others call them 'stocks of papers'!


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"Knowledge and Belief"
Seminar. 
Carton 5, Folder 18. 
From 1979 to 1980.

Preferred citation:

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Grice, H. P. (1980). 'Knowledge and belief,' The H. P. Grice Papers, Series III, Carton V, Folder 18, BANC MSS 90/135c, The Bancroft Library, University of California, Berkeley.
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Does 'know' implicate 'believe'?

Grice briefly discusses Gettier at Harvard, and finds Gettier's target "too strong." Grice opts for a 'causal' theory, with provisions.


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"Kant's Ethics" (continued)
The so-called "Volume V" 
Seminar
Carton 5. From Folder 19 to Folder 21
From 1980 to 1982.

Preferred citation:

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Grice, H. P. (1982). 'Kant's ethics,' The H. P. Grice Papers, Series III, Carton V, Folders 19-21, BANC MSS 90/135c, The Bancroft Library, University of California, Berkeley.
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Historical: Vide: "Kantotle."

Grice is being a bit snobby when calling these things 'volumes.'


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Notes for the course, "Philosophy 200."
Jointly taught by Grice and Myro
Carton 5, Folder 22. 
1982. 

Preferred citation:

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Grice, H. P. and G. Myro (1982). 'Philosophical notes,' The H. P. Grice Papers, Series III, Carton V, Folder 22, BANC MSS 90/135c, The Bancroft Library, University of California, Berkeley. 
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Vide: The Grice-Myro theory of identity.

Myro, a Russian, had a thing for logic, and Grice loved this in Myro -- also that they both loved chess!


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"Kant"
Notes. 
Carton 5, Folder 23. 
1982.

Preferred citation:

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Grice, H. P. (1982). 'Kant,' The H. P. Grice Papers, Series III, Carton V, Folder 23, BANC MSS 90/135c, The Bancroft Library, University of California, Berkeley.
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Historical: Vide: "Kantotle."

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Carton 5, Folder 24.

"Metaphysics and the Language of Philosophy"
1983.

Grice, H. P. (1983). 'Metaphysics and the language of philosophy,' The H. P. Grice Papers, BANC MSS 90/135c, The Bancroft Library, University of California, Berkeley. 

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Carton 5, Folder 25. 

"Freedom"
Seminar. 
Undated -- or "non-dated," if you must. The American Philosophical Association suggests that we write "n. d." for 'non-dated,' where 'non-' is a stronger negation than 'un-'.

Grice, H. P. (n.d.). 'Freedom,' The H. P. Grice Papers, BANC MSS 90/135c, The Bancroft Library, University of California, Berkeley. 

Grice wants to analyse 'sugar-free' and 'alcohol-free' and 'free fall'. He deems 'free' uniguous, though! 'free' in 'free fall' is the primary usage, though!


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Carton 5, Folder 26.

Grice 
Lectures
Undated. Or Non-Dated. But trust a Griceian to know how to date it, even if wrongly!

Grice, H. P. (n.d.). 'Lectures,' The H. P. Grice Papers, BANC MSS 90/135c, The Bancroft Library, The University of California, Berkeley. 

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Carton 5.. From Folder 27 to Folder 28.

"Kant's Ethics"
Seminar
Undated -- Or non-dated, but trust a Griceian to know how to date it, even if wrongly!

Grice, H. P. (n.d.). 'Kant's ethics,' The H. P. Grice Papers, The Bancroft Library, University of California, Berkeley. 

KEYWORD: Kantotle.

Historical. Vide: "Kantotle."


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Carton 5, Folder 29.

"The Criteria of Intelligence" 
Lectures II-IV
Undated -- or non-dated -- But trust a Griceian to know how to date it, even if wrongly!

Grice, H. P. (n.d.). 'The criteria of intelligence,' The H. P. Grice Papers, BANC MSS 90/135c, The Bancroft Library, University of California, Berkeley.

One wonders what happened to Lecture I -- perhaps it never existed (or was cancelled because of bad weather). 


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Carton 5, Folder 30. 

"Modest Mentalism"
UC/Berkeley
Undated -- or non-dated, but trust a Griceian to know how to date it, if wrongly!

Grice, H. P. (n.d.). 'A modest mentalism,' The H. P. Grice Papers, BANC MSS 90/135c, The Bancroft Library, University of California, Berkeley.

By 'modest,' Grice means modest. But he implicates 'unpretentious.' Grice uses psi for psychological operators.


Grice preferred to refer his self as a proud 'functionalist,' than a mentalist, however modest.


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Carton 5, Folder 31

Topics for Pursuit, Zeno, Socrates 
Notes
Undated -- or non-dated, but trust a Griceian to know how to date this, if wrongly!

Grice, H. P. (n.d.). 'Zeno,' The H. P. Grice Papers, BANC MSS 90/135c, The Bancroft Library, The University of California, Berkeley.

Grice, H. P. (n.d.). 'Socrates,' The H. P. Grice Papers, BANC MSS 90/135c, The Bancroft Library, The University of California, Berkeley.

KEYWORD: ZENO

KEYWORD: Socrates

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Carton 6. From Folder 1 to Folder 2

"Syntax, Semantics, and Phonetics"
Seminar
Grice/Staal 
Seminar
Undated -- or non-dated, but trust a Griceian to date this, if wrongly!

Grice, H. P. and J. F. Staal (n.d.). 'Phonetics, syntax, and semantics,' The H. P. Grice Papers, BANC MSS 90/135c, The Bancroft Library, University of California, Berkeley. 

J. F. Staal was one of the editors for "Foundations of Language."


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Carton 6, Folder 3. 

The "That"-Clause

Grice/Staaal.
Undated. Or non-dated, but trust a Griceian to date this!

Grice, H. P. and J. F. Staal (n.d.). 'The 'that'-clause,' The H. P. Grice Papers, BANC MSS 90/135c, The Bancroft Library, University of California, Berkeley. 

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"Series IV"

The "Series IV" includes notes involving Grice's professional associations -- or rather Grice's involvement with professional societies.
Ranging from 1971 to 1987.

From Carton 6 (From Folder 4 to Folder 12) to Carton 10. 

The items are arranged chronologically, rather than alphabetically.
This series includes Kant's Stanford Lectures, various notes and audio tapes of Beanfest, Grice's fall 1987 group research on universals, and conferences and discussions concerning the American Philosophicall Association.

It also includes a carton of cassettes, magnetic recorder tapes, and cassette sets of four on professional talks with colleague George Myro on identities, metaphysics, and relatives and Grice's various seminars given at different institutions such as Stanford, University of California, Berkeley, and Seattle (where he also held the title of professor of philosophy) on his philosophical theories.

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"SERIES IV": 

A DETAILED ITEM-BY-ITEM COMMENTARY 


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Carton 6, Folder 4.
"Entailment" 
Symposium
American Philosophical Association.
1971.

Preferred citation:

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Grice, H. P. (1971). 'Entailment,' The H. P. Grice Papers, Series IV, Carton VI, Folder 4, BANC MSS 90/135c, The Bancroft Library, University of California, Berkeley. 
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"Entail" is a use particular to G. E. Moore. Grice prefers 'implicate.'

Russell and Whitehead (or Whitehead and Russell) use a special symbol for 'entail'. Levinson uses "+>" for 'implicates,' to oppose to '... entails...'. 

In "Presupposition and Conversational Implicature," Grice aptly notes that "The king of France is bald" entails there is a king of France; "The king of France isn't bald" merely implicates it!


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Carton 6. From Folder 5 to Folder 6.

"Some Aspects of Reason" 
Stanford
The Immanuel Kant Lectures. 
1977

Preferred citation:

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Grice, H. P. (1977). 'Some aspects of reason, being the Immanuel Kant Lectures, Stanford,' The H. P. Grice Papers, Series IV, Carton VI, Folders 5 and 6, BANC MSS 90/135c, The Bancroft Library, University of California, Berkeley. 
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Repr. by R. O. Warner for The Clarendon Press.


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Carton 6, Folder 7.

Conferences 
"Causality" 
Colloquium
Stanford 
Circa 1978

Preferred citation:

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Grice, H. P. (1978). 'Causality,' The H. P. Grice Papers, Series IV, Carton VI, Folder 7, BANC MSS 90/135c, The Bancroft Library, University of California, Berkeley. 
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Carton 6, Folder 8. 

Conferences  
Discussion 
American Philosophical Association.
Transcription (by Randall Parker) of Audio-Tapes 
From 1983 to 1989. 

Preferred citation:

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Grice, H. P. (1988). 'Philosophical notes,' The H. P. Grice Papers, Series IV, Carton VI, Folder 8, BANC MSS 90/135c, The Bancroft Library, University of California, Berkeley. 
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Carton 6, Folder 9

"The Unity of Science and Teleology" 
"Hands Across the Bay" and 
"Beanfest"
1985.

Preferred citation:

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Grice, H. P. (1985). 'The unity of science and teleology,' The H. P. Grice Papers, Series IV, Carton VI, Folder 9, BANC MSS 90/135c, The Bancroft Library, The University of California, Berkeley.
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The idea of the unity of science (or unified science) was one Grice disliked. The point here is that teleology poses a problem to such a unity, since mechanism is one of the monsters pilgrim Grice encounters on his way to the City of Eternal Truth! (As R. B. Jones would agree!)


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Carton 6, Folder 10.

"Beanfest"
Transcripts and Audio Cassettes
1985.

Preferred citation:

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Grice, H. P. (1985). 'Beanfest,' The H. P. Grice Papers, Series IV, Carton VI, Folder 10, BANC MSS 90/135c, The Bancroft Library, University of California, Berkeley. 
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Carton 6, Folder 11.

"Universals"
Group 
1987

See next item for citation. 


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Carton 6, Folder 12. 

"Universals" (continued)
Group. 
Partial Working Copy
1987.

Preferred citation:

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Grice, H. P. (1987). 'Universals,' The H. P. Grice Papers, Series IV, Carton VI, Folders 11 and 12, BANC MSS 90/135c, The Bancroft Library, University of California, Berkeley.
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KEYWORD: universalia. 

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Carton 6, Folder 12.

Audio Files of various lectures and conferences.
From 1970 to 1986.

Preferred citation:

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Grice, H. P. (1986). Audio-tapes, The H. P. Grice Papers, Series IV, Carton VI, Folder 12, BANC MSS 90/135c, The Bancroft Library, University of California, Berkeley. 

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"Series V"

The so-called "Series V" includes miscelaneous materials by Grice, ranging from 1951 to 1988.

Carton 6 (from Folder13  to Foder 38) and Carton 7 to Carton 9.
The items are arranged alphabetically. 
"Series V" includes:
Reed seminar notes, notes on ancient and modern philosophers such as Aristotle, Descartes and their own philosophical theories, research and accompanying notes on other prominent philosophers such as Kant and Davidson, notes with colleagues Judith Baker, Alan Code, Michael Friedman, George Myro, Patrick Suppes, and Richard Warner, on various theories of reason, trust, language semantics, universals, and values.

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"SERIES V": 

A DETAILED ITEM-BY-ITEM COMMENTARY 

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Carton 6. From Folder 13 to Folder 14. 

"The Analytic/Synthetic Division" -- 
1983

Preferred citation:

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Grice, H. P. (1983). 'The analytic-synthetic distinction,' The H. P. Grice Papers, Series V, Carton VI, Folders 13 and 14, BANC MSS 90/135c, The Bancroft Library, University of California, Berkeley.
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"In defence of a dogma" is repr. in WoW, Way of Words.

A revision of Grice's collaboration with Strawson, "In defence of a dogma." "Division" should read, unless we are talking cricket, 'distinction.'


KEYWORD: analytic-synthetic distinction.

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Carton 6, Folder 15. 

Aristotle and "Categories"
Undated. Or non-dated, if you must. But trust a Griceian to date it!

Preferred citation:

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Grice, H. P. (n.d.). 'Notes on Aristotle's 'Categories',' The H. P. Grice Papers, Series V, Carton VI, Folder 15, BANC MSS 90/135c, The Bancroft Library, University of California, Berkeley.
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Work with P. F. Strawson at Oxford.

Aristotle's categories were 10; Grice and Strawson found them six too many and preferred Kant's reduction to 4 (which later became the four conversational categories of 'qualitas,' 'quantitas,' 'relatio,' and 'modus').


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Carton 6, Folder 16.

"Aristotle's Ethics"
Undated. Or non-dated, if you must. But trust a Griceian to date it!

Preferred citation:

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Grice, H. P. (n.d.) 'Aristotle's ethics,' The H. P. Grice Papers, Series V, Carton VI, Folder 16, BANC MSS 90/135c, The Bancroft Library, University of California, Berkeley.
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Carton 6, Folder 17. 

"Aristotle and Friendship"
Undated. Or non-dated, but trust a Griceian to date it!

Preferred citation:

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Grice, H. P. (n.d.). 'Aristotle on friendship,' The H. P. Grice Papers, Series V, Carton VI, Folder 17, BANC MSS 90/135c, The Bancroft Library, University of California, Berkeley.
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Note the distinction with "Aristotle ON friendship."
Grice refers to an essay by J. Baker on this in Grice's essay on eschatology in WoW.

KEYWORD: Aristotle
KEYWORD: friendship.

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Carton 6, Folder 18.

"Aristotle and Friendship, Rationality, Trust, and Decency"
Undated. Or non-dated, but trust a Griceian to date it!

Preferred citation:

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Grice, H. P. (n.d.). 'Aristotle on friendship, rationality, trust, and decency,' The H. P. Grice Papers, Series V, Carton VI, Folder 18, BANC MSS 90/135c, The Bancroft Library, University of California, Berkeley.
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"Trust" is used by G. J. Warnock, alla Grice, in "The object of morality." It was the topic of Grice's earlier "Logic and conversation" lectures on implicature, where he refers to the clash between conversational self-interest and conversational benevolence. 

Note that this is NOT Aristotle on x, y, and z. But Aristotle AND x, y, and z!


KEYWORD: Aristotle
KEYWORD: decency
KEYWORD: trust
KEYWORD: friendship
KEYWORD: rationality

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Carton 6, Folder 19. 

"Aristotle and Multiplicity"
Undated. Or non-dated. But trust a Griceian to date it!

Preferred citation:

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Grice, H. P. (n.d.). 'Aristotle on the multiplicity of being,' The H. P. Grice Papers, Series V, Carton VI, Folder 19, BANC MSS 90/135c, The Bancroft Library, University of California, Berkeley.
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Many what?
Repr. as "Aristotle on the multiplicity of being," Pacific Philosophical Quarterly.


KEYWORD: Aristotle


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Carton 6, Folder 20

G. P. Bealer 
Notes
Co-written with G. P. Bealer.
Undated

Preferred citation:

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Grice, H. P. and G. P. Bealer (n.d.). 'Philosophical notes,' The H. P. Grice Papers, Series V, Carton VI, Folder 20, BANC MSS 90/135c, The Bancroft Library, University of California, Berkeley. 
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Vide: Speranza, Correspondence with Bealer.

To be published in Grice, "Philosophical Papers, Volume II: The Collaborations."

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Carton 6, Folder 21. 

"Philosophy"
Notes
Berkeley Group Team 
1983.

Preferred citation:

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Grice, H. P. (1983). 'Philosophical notes for the Berkeley team,' The H. P. Grice Papers, Series V, Carton VI, Folder 21, BANC MSS 90/135c, The Bancroft Library, University of California, Berkeley. 
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Note the redundancy ("be brief"): "group team."


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Carton 6, Folder 22. 

"The Casual Theory Perception"

Undated. Or non-dated, but trust a Griceian to date it -- 1961!


Preferred citation:

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Grice, H. P. (1961). 'The causal theory of perception,' The H. P. Grice Papers, Series V, Carton VI, Folder 22, BANC MSS 90/135c, The Bancroft Library, University of California, Berkeley. 
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This was repr. in the Proceedings of the Aristotelian Society. Warnock included the symposium (with A. R. White) in his "Philosophy of Perception" Oxford Reader. Most find White's response boring, but Grice didn't (he never read it!)


KEYWORD: perception
KEYWORD: causal theory
KEYWORD: cause

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Carton 6, Folder 23. 

"Categories"
With P. F. Strawson
Undated. Or non-dated. But trust a Griceian to date this!

Preferred citation:

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Grice, H. P. and P. F. Strawson (n.d.). 'Categories,' The H. P. Grice Papers, Series V, Carton VI, Folder 23, BANC MSS 90/135c, The Bancroft Library, University of California, Berkeley.
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With P. F. Strawson at Oxford. Discussion. Some linguistic botanising on things like, 'Where is Banbury's generosity?' 


Grice refers to this work in his "Reply to Richards" and complains (slightly) that Strawson failed to recognise him (Grice) in "Subject and predicate in logic and grammar" and most unnotably, in "Individuals: an essay in descriptive metaphysics."

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Carton 6, Folder 24.

"Categorical Imperatives"
1981.

Preferred citation:

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Note the plural! For Kant, there is only ONE -- 'the one and only.'


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Carton 6, Folder 25.

"The Logical Construction Theory of Personal Identity"
Undated. Or non-dated, but trust a Griceian to date this. 

Preferred citation:

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Grice, H. P. (n.d.). 'The logical-construction theory of personal identity,' The H. P. Grice Papers, Series V, Carton VI, Folder 25, BANC MSS 90/135c, The Bancroft Library, University of California, Berkeley. 
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To be reprinted in Grice, "Philosophical Papers," Clarendon Press.

A revision of his "Mind" 1941 essay on "Personal Identity". The idea of 'logical construction' comes from the author discussed by Grice in that essay: Broad.


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Carton 6, Folder 26. 

Davidson's "On Saying That" 
Undated. But trust a Griceian to date this. 

Preferred citation:

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Grice, H. P. (n.d.). 'Notes on Davidson's 'On saying that',' The H. P. Grice Papers, Series V, Carton VI, Folder 26, BANC MSS 90/135c, The Bancroft Library, University of California, Berkeley. 
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Cfr. Grice/Staal on the 'that'-clause. Originally a demonstrative, it can be dropped, but never by Grice!


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Carton 6. From Folder 27 to Folder 28. 

"Descartes" 
Notes
Undated

Preferred citation:

---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------Grice, H. P. (n.d.). 'Descartes,' The H. P. Grice Papers, Series V, Carton VI, Folders 27 and 28, BANC MSS 90/135c, The Bancroft Library, The University of California, Berkeley.
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KEYWORD: Descartes. To be published by the Descartes Oxford Society, if there were one!

McGinn has called Grice's model, like Descartes's, a 'telementational' one!

Grice never cited Descartes in French!


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Carton 6, Folder 29.

"Grice on Denials of Indicative Conditionals" 
by Michael Sinton
Circa 1971.

Add to secondary references

Preferred citation:

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Grice, H. P. (1971). Notes on M. Sinton's 'Grice on denials of indicative conditionals,'' The H. P. Grice Papers, Series V, Carton VI, Folder 29, BANC MSS 90/135c, The Bancroft Library, University of California, Berkeley. 

Grice never cared to write a response to Sinton. Although Grice's keeping a copy of Sinton's essay IMPLICATES that he _cared_.

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Carton 6, Folder 30. 

"Dispositions and Intentions"
Notes
Undated. Or non-dated. But trust a Griceian to date this: 1945!

Preferred citation:

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Grice, H. P. (n.d.). 'Dispositions and intentions,' Series V, Carton VI, Folder 30, The H. P. Grice Papers, BANC MSS 90/135c, The Bancroft Library, University of California, Berkeley.
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A very important essay.
To be reprinted in Grice, "Philosophical Papers, Volume I" (Clarendon)

It contains some corrections by some of Grice's Oxford colleagues. It is a rare discussion by Grice of Ryle --. A knowledge of Ryle and his influence at Oxford is obvious in "Method in philosophical psychology." Ryle is a 'behaviourist.' Grice is also thinking of Hampshire whose "Thought and action," was pretty influential at Oxford -- and which Grice preferred to Anscombe's more popular pamphlet on intention!


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Carton 6, Folder 31. 

"Two Dogmas of Empiricism
"
Undated. Or non-dated, but trust a Griceian to date this.

Preferred citation:

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Grice, H. P. (n.d.). 'Two dogmas of empiricism,' The H. P. Grice Papers, Series V, Carton VI, Folder 31, BANC MSS 90/135c, The Bancroft Library, The University of California, Berkeley. 
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repr. in WoW, Way of Words.

A revision of "In defence of a dogma," with P. F. Strawson. Actually the dogmas are two!

This was Strawson's and Grice's way to honour Quine at Oxford -- by providing a counterexample to Quine's most infamous essay against Carnap! (R. B. Jones should agree!)


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Carton 6, Folder 32. 

"Emotions and Incontinence" 
Undated. Or non-dated, but trust a Griceian to date this!

Grice, H. P. (n.d.). 'Emotions and incontinence,' The H. P. Grice Papers, BANC MSS 90/135c, The Bancroft Library, University of California, Berkeley. 

"Incontinentia" is Latinese for the more proper "akrasia."


KEYWORD: emotion
KEYWORD: icontinence
KEYWORD: akrasia

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Carton 6, Folder 33. 

"Entailment and Paradoxes"
Undated. Or non-dated, but trust a Griceian to date this!

Grice, H. P. (n.d.). 'Entailment and paradoxes,' The H. P. Grice Papers, BANC MSS 90/135c, The Bancroft Library, The University of California, Berkeley. 

Grice finds that the paradoxes of entailment are best seen as disimplicatures "on context"!


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Carton 6. From Folder 34 to Folder 35
"Ethics"
Notes 
With Judith Baker
Undated. Or non-dated, but trust a Griceian to date this!

Grice, H. P. and J. Baker (n.d.). 'Ethics,' The H. P. Grice Papers, BANC MSS 90/135c, The Bancroft Library, The University of California, Berkeley. 

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Carton 6, Folder 36. 

"Ethics"
North Carolina 
Notes
Undated. Or non-dated, but trust a Griceian to date this!

Grice, H. P. (n.d.). 'Lecture notes on ethics, the University of North Carolina,' The H. P. Grice Papers, BANC MSS 90/135c, The Bancroft Library, The University of California, Berkeley. 

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Carton 6, Folder 37. 

Notes for Festschrift and 
Warner 
Notes
Circa 1981 and 1982. 

Grice, H. P. (1981). 'Notes for festschrift,' The H. P. Grice Papers, BANC MSS 90/135c, The Bancroft Library, University of California, Berkeley.

Grice, H. P. (1982). Notes on R. O. Warner,' The H. P. Grice Papers, BANC MSS 90/135c, The Bancroft Library, Univeristy of California, Berkeley. 

By "Festschrift," Grice meant "P. G. R. I. C. E.," i.e. philosophical grounds of rationality: intentions, categories, ends.


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Carton 6, Folder 38. 

"Finality" 
Notes 
With Alan D. Code
Undated. Or non-dated, but trust a Griceian to date this!

Grice, H. P. and A. D. Code (n.d.). 'Finality,' The H. P. Grice Papers, BANC MSS 90/135c, The Bancroft Library, The University of California, Berkeley. 

To be reprinted in Grice, "Philosophical Papers, volume II: Collaborations" (Clarendon).

A. D. Code and Grice worked on Aristotle's izzing and hazzing. 


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Carton 7, Folder 1.

"Form, Type, and Implication" 
Undated. Or non-dated, but trust a Griceian to date this!

Grice, H. P. (n.d.). 'Form, type, and implication,' The H. P. Grice Papers, BANC MSS 90/135c, The Bancroft Library, University of California, Berkeley. 

Grice was sceptical about the type-token distinction (vide WoW, Retrospective Epilogue). 


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Carton 7, Folder 2.

"Frege, Words and Sentences"
Notes
Undated
KEYWORD: Frege. To be published by the International Frege Society, if there is one!

Grice, H. P. (n.d.). 'Frege, words, and sentences,' The H. P. Grice Papers, BANC MSS 90/135c, The Bancroft Librarry, The University of California, Berkeley. 

One rare example of Grice dwelling on an author he did not particularly like! But cfr. Neale et al. on Frege on 'colour' and Grice's idea of 'conventional' implicature.

In "Prejudices and predilections, which become the life and opinions of Paul Grice," Grice refers to a "Fregeian sense" but was unsure what this was!


Jason Stanley should have a look at this! (And learn?).

KEYWORD: FREGE.

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Carton 7, Folder 3. 

"Fundamental Principles of the Metaphysic of Ethics" by Kant
Undated. Or non-dated, but trust a Griceian to date this!

Grice, H. P. (n.d.). 'Notes on Kant's 'Fundamental principles of the metaphysic of ethics,'' The H. P. Grice Papers, BANC MSS 90/135c, The Bancroft Library, University of California, Berkeley. 

To be published by the Oxford Kant Society, if there is one!

Historical. Vide: "Kantotle."


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Carton 7, Folder 4. 

"Foundations of the Metaphysics of Morals"
Undated. Or non-dated, but trust a Griceian to date this.

Grice, H. P. (n.d.). 'Notes on Kant's foundations of the metaphysics of morals,' The H. P. Grice Papers, BANC MSS 90/135c, The Bancroft Library, University of California, Berkeley. 

KEYWORD: Kantotle.

Historical: Vide: "Kantotle."

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Carton 7, Folder 5

"Grammar and Semantics"
With Richard O. Warner
Undated. Or non-dated, but trust a Griceian to date this!

Grice, H. P. and R. O. Warner (n.d.). 'Grammar and semantics,' The H. P. Grice Papers, BANC MSS 90/135c, The Bancroft Library, The University of California, Berkeley.

R. O. Warner was Grice's doctoral student at Berkeley. By grammar, Grice means syntax, but won't say it (he finds 'syntax' pretentious and almost, contra Chomsky, krypto-technical!)


Forthcoming in Grice, "Philosophical Papers, Volume II: The Collaborations" (Clarendon Press).

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Carton 7, Folder 6. 

"Happiness, Discipline, and Implicatives"
Undated. Or non-dated, but trust a Griceian to date this!

Grice, H. P. (n.d.). 'Happiness, discipline, and implicatures,' The H. P. Grice Papers, BANC MSS 90/135c, The Bancroft Library, University of California, Berkeley. 

That should read 'implicatures' or at least 'implicate' it!

KEYWORD: happiness.
KEYWORD: implicature.
KEYWORD: discipline

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Carton 7, Folder 7. 

"Hume"
Notes 
1975

Grice, H. P. (1975). 'Hume,' The H. P. Grice Papers, BANC MSS 90/135c, The Bancroft Library, The University of California, Berkeley. 

It relates Hume's quandary on personal identity. Discussed by Haugeland.
Oddly, unlike Grice, Hume was a Scot, and his surname originally spelt "Home." A grice is a sort of Scots pig, but Grice preferred to think his surname was Anglo-Norman and meant grey, or gray! (as it does)

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Carton 7. From Folder 8 to Folder 9

"Hume's Account on Personal Identity"
Notes
Undated. Or non-dated, but trust a Griceian to date this. 

Grice, H. P. (1977). 'Hume's account of personal identity,' The H. P. Grice Papers, BANC MSS 90/135c, The Bancroft Library, The University of California, Berkeley. 

Discussed by J. Haugeland. 


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Carton 7. Folder 10. 

"Identity"
Notes 
With George Myro
1973. 

Grice, H. P. and G. Myro (1973). 'Identity,' The H. P. Grice Papers, BANC MSS 90/135c, The Bancroft Library, University of California, Berkeley. 

To be reprinted in Grice, "Philosophical Papers, Volume II: The Collaborations" (Clarendon).

Vide: The Grice-Myro theory of identity. Some of these ideas were presented by Myro in his essay on identity in PGRICE, ed. Grandy/Warner.


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Carton 7, from Folders 11 to Folder 12.

"Ifs and Cans"

Undated. Or non-dated, but trust a Griceian to date this.


Grice, H. P. (n.d.). 'Ifs and cans,' The H. P. Grice Papers, BANC MSS 90/135c, The Bancroft Library, University of California, Berkeley. 

A discussion of J. L. Austin, "if ifs and cans were pots and pans."


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Carton 7, Folder 13

"Irony, Stress, and Truth"
Undated. Or non-dated, but trust a Griceian to date this: 1967.

Grice, H. P. (1967). 'Irony, stress, and truth,' The H. P. Grice Papers, BANC MSS 90/135c, The Bancroft Library, University of California, Berkeley. 

repr. in WoW, Way of Words.

A section of the third William James lecture, motivated by discussion with Rogers Albritton and others.


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Carton 7. From Folder 14 to Folder 16. 

"Kant"
Notes

From 1981 to 1982.

Grice, H. P. (1982). 'Kant,' The H. P. Grice Papers, BANC MSS 90/135c, The Bancroft Library, University of California, Berkeley..

Historical: Vide: "Kantotle."
At Harvard, in 1967, Grice was 'echoing Kant,' rather than, say, Heidegger ("The most greatest living philosopher" -- Kant was dead by then). 

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Carton 7, Folder 17. 

"Kant's Ethics" (continuing the Kantian themes of the previous two folders). 
1982.

Grice, H. P. (1982). 'Kant's ethics,' The H. P. Grice Papers, BANC MSS 90/135c, The Bancroft Library, The University of California, Berkeley.

Historical: Vide: "Kantotle."

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Carton 7, Folder 18

"Kant, Midsentences, Freedom"
Undated. Or non-dated, but trust a Griceian to date this!

Grice, H. P. (n.d.). 'Kant,' The H. P. Grice Papers, BANC MSS 90/135c, The Bancroft Library, The University of California, Berkeley.

Grice, H. P. (n.d.). 'Mid-sentences,' The H. P. Grice Papers, BANC MSS 90/135c, The Bancroft Library, University of California, Berkeley.

Grice, H. P. (n.d.). 'Freedom,' The H. P. Grice Papers, BANC MSS 90/135c, The Bancroft Library, University of California, Berkeley.

Kant loved a midsentence!

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Carton 7, Folder 19.

"Language and Reference"
Circa 1966. Trust a Griceian to get rid of the pretentious 'circa'!

Grice, H. P. (1966). 'Language and reference,' The H. P. Grice Papers, BANC MSS 90/135c, The Bancroft Library, University of California, Berkeley. 

To be reprinted in Grice, "Philosophical Papers" (Clarendon).
A very substantial series. 

The topic is reference really. Grice has a shaggy-dog story on reference in the sixth William James lecture. The topic was expanded to Griceian minutiae by Schiffer, when he was a Griceian!


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Carton 7, Folder 20. 

Language Semantics
Undated. Or non-dated, but trust a Griceian to date this!

Grice, H. P. (n.d.). 'Language semantics,' The H. P. Grice Papers, BANC MSS 90/135c, The Bancroft Library, University of California, Berkeley. 

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Carton 7. From Folder 21 to Folder 22

The John Locke Lectures on "Aspects of Reason"
Oxford
Notes
1979.

Grice, H. P. (1979). 'Aspects of reason, being the John Locke Lectures,' The H. P. Grice Papers, BANC MSS 90/135c, The Bancroft Library, University of California, Berkeley. 

Repr. by R. O. Warner for the Clarendon Press.

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Carton 7, Folder 23. 

"Logical Form and Action Sentences"
Undated. Or non-dated, but trust a Griceian to date this!

Grice, H. P. (n.d.). 'Logical form and action sentences,' The H. P. Grice Papers, BANC MSS 90/135c, The Bancroft Library, University of California, Berkeley. 

A discussion of D. Davidson, repr. in Grice's "Actions and events."


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Carton 7. From Folder 24 to Folder 25

"Meaning and Psychology"
Undated. Or non-dated, but trust a Griceian to date this!

Grice, H. P. (n.d.). 'Meaning and psychology,' The H. P. Grice Papers, BANC MSS 90/135c, The Bancroft Library, University of California, Berkeley. 

An earlier version of "Philosophical Psychology"

Grice was sceptical about scientific psychology and always qualified HIS type of psychology as 'philosophical' -- he held, after all, a Lit. Hum. Oxon!


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Carton 7. From Folder 26 to Folder 27

"Metaphysics"
Notes 
1988.

Grice, H. P. (1988). 'Metaphysics,' The H. P. Grice Papers, BANC MSS 90/135c, The Bancroft Library, University of California, Berkeley. 

Grice gave a Third programme lecture at the BBC on "Metaphysics," with D. F. Pears and P. F. Strawson. 


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"Metaphysics and Ill-Will"

Carton 7, Folder 28. 
Undated. Or non-dated, but trust a Griceian to date this!

Preferred citation:

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Grice, H. P. (n.d.). 'Metaphysics and ill will,' The H. P. Grice Papers, Carton 7, Folder 28, BANC MSS 90/135c, The Bancroft Library, University of California, Berkeley. 
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Interesting elaboration on the idea of 'ill-will' -- cfr. Grice on benevolence and self-interest, conversational style.

Why the hyphen in 'ill-will'?


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"Metaphysics and Theorizing"

Carton 7, Folder 29. 
Undated. Or non-dated, but trust a Griceian to date this!

Preferred citation:
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Grice, H. P. (n.d.). 'Metaphysics and theorising,' The H. P. Grice Papers, Carton 7, Folder 29, BANC MSS 90/135c, The Bancroft Library, The University of California, Berkeley. 
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A response to Mrs. Jack on reductive vs. reductionist analysis -- and theory versus intuition. 

Note the spelling, theorising (NOT!)


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"Method and Myth" 
Notes


Carton 7, Folder 30. 
Undated. Or non-dated, but trust a Griceian to date this!

Preferred citation:

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Grice, H. P. (n.d.). 'Method and myth,' The H. P. Grice Papers, Carton 7, Folder 30, 
BANC MSS 90/135c, The Bancroft Library, University of California, Berkeley. 
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Cfr. T. Wharton on 'myth.'


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"Mill's Induction"

Carton 7, Folder 31. 
Undated. Or non-dated, but trust a Griceian to date this!

Preferred citation:

---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------Grice, H. P. (n.d.). 'Mill's induction,' The H. P. Grice Papers, Carton 7, Folder 31, BANC MSS 90/135c, The Bancroft Library, University of California, Berkeley. 
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Grice to the Mill.

Grice quotes from Kneale on Mill on induction in "Prejudices and predilections, which become the life and opinions of Paul Grice."


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Miscellaneous  
Actions and Events 
Carton 7, Folder 32. 
Undated. Or non-dated, but trust a Griceian to date this!

Preferred citation:

---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------Grice, H. P. (1986). 'Actions and events,' The H. P. Grice Papers, Carton 7, Folder 32, BANC MSS 90/135c, The Bancroft Library, University of California, Berkeley. 
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Repr. in "Actions and Events," Pacific Philosophical Quarterly.

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Miscellaneous 
With Judith Baker
Carton 8, Folder 1
Undated. Or non-dated, but trust a Griceian to date this!

Preferred citation:

---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------Grice, H. P. and J. Baker (n.d.) 'Miscellaneous notes,' The H. P. Grice Papers, Carton 8, Folder 1, BANC MSS 90/135c, The Bancroft Library, University of California, Berkeley.
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To be reprinted in Grice, Philosophical Papers, vol. 2: The collaborations. 

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"Metaphysics"
Miscellaneous
Notes. 
Carton 8, Folder 2. 
From 1987 to 1988.

Preferred citation:

---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------Grice, H. P. (1988). 'Metaphysics,' The H. P. Grice Papers, Carton 8, Folder 2, BANC MSS 90/135c, The Bancroft Library, University of California, Berkeley.
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A long-standing interest of Grice perhaps best expressed in his contribution to D. F. Pears, "The nature of metaphysics."

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"Oxford Philosophy"
Miscellaneous
Carton 8, Folder 3. 
Undated. Or non-dated, but trust a Griceian to date this. 

Preferred citation:

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Grice, H. P. (n.d.). 'Oxford philosophy, 1945-1970,' The H. P. Grice Papers, Carton 8, Folder 3, BANC MSS 90/135c, The Bancroft Library, University of California, Berkeley.
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Grice liked to see "Oxonian dialectic' as a reincarnation of the Athenian dialectic. Some found this snobby!

In correspondence, S. N. Hampshire recalls the APA colloquia on this! He was much amused by them!

Odd that Grice entitled this "1945-1970" since he left Oxford in 1967!

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"Philosophy"
Miscellaneous
Notes.
Carton 8. From Folders 4 to Folder 8
From 1981 to 1985

Preferred citation:

Grice, H. P. (1985). 'Philosophy,' The H. P. Grice Papers, Carton 8, Folders 4-8, BANC MSS 90/135c, The Bancroft Library, University of California, Berkeley. 

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"Philosophy"
Miscellaneous (continued)
Topics
Carton 8. From Folder 9 to Folder 13. 
Undated. Or non-dated, but trust a Griceian to date this!

A big chunk! -- 

Preferred citation:

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Grice, H. P. (n.d.). 'Philosophy,' The H. P. Grice Papers, Carton 8, Folders 9-13. BANC MSS 90/135c, The Bancroft Library, University of California, Berkeley. 
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"Modality, Desirability, and Probability"

Carton 8. From Folder 14 to Folder 15.
Undated. Or non-dated, but trust a Griceian to date this!

Preferred citation:

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Grice, H. P. (1973). 'Modality, desirability, and probability,' The H. P. Grice Papers, Carton 8, Folders 14 and 15, BANC MSS 90/135c, The Bancroft Library, University of California, Berkeley. 
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Presented at a conference, but unpublished "for technical reasons."

To be reprinted in Grice, "Philosophical Papers," Clarendon.


As Grice notes in "Aspects of Reason," "Desirability" is the practical correlate of the alethic 'probability.' He relies on Davidson for 'probability.' His thoughts on 'desirability' are all his own! (But they compare to Kenny's views on 'fiats' -- vide Atlas). 

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Nicomachean Ethics
Aristotle's Ethics.
From 1975 to 1976.


Carton 8. From Folder 16 to Folder 17.

Preferred citation:

---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------Grice, H. P. (1976). 'Notes on Aristotle's Nicomachean Ethics,' The H. P. Grice Papers, Carton 8, Folders 16 and 17, BANC MSS 90/135c, The Bancroft Library, University of California, Berkeley.
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Keyword: Aristotle
Keyword: Nichomachean Ethics


Historical. Cfr. "Kantotle."

Grice knew all you needed to know about the Nicomachean ethics, since his tutor at Oxford had been Hardie! (He regretted he had to teach it in English, not Greek, at Berkeley!)


There's more to Aristotle's ethics than the Nicomachean ethics, and Grice knew it!

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"Objectivity and Value"


Carton 8, Folder 18.

Undated. Or non-dated, but trust a Griceian to date this!


Preferred citation:

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Grice, H. P. (n.d.). 'Value and objectivity,' The H. P. Grice Papers, Carton 8, Folder 18.
BANC MSS 90/135c, The Bancroft Library, University of California, Berkeley. 
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Repr. in "The conception of value," ed. by J. Baker. The source of all this is Grice's antipathy towards J. L. Mackie's "little book" on "Ethics" (Penguin). 

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"Objective Value"
"Rational Motivation"
Carton 8, Folder 19. 
Circa 1978. Trust a Griceian to get rid of the pretentious prolixic 'circa.'

Preferred citation:

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Grice, H. P. (1978). 'A rational motivation for objective value,' The H. P. Grice Papers, Carton 8, Folder 19, BANC MSS 90/135c, The Bancroft Library, The University of California, Berkeley.
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Keyword: objective value.
Keyword: value.
Keyword: axiology (a term Grice oddly does not seem to keen on).

Grice develops this in the third Carus Lecture on the conception of value. He calls it a 'rational demand,' rather than a 'motivation,' though. 

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"Oddents: Urbane and Not Urbane."
Carton 8, Folder 20. 
Undated. Or non-dated, but trust a Griceian to date this! Precisely!

Preferred citation:

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Grice, H. P. (n.d.). 'Odds and ends: Urbana and non Urbana,' The H. P. Grice Papers,
Carton 8, Folder 20, BANC MSS 90/135c, The Bancroft Library, University of California, Berkeley.
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"Vision," "Taste," and other papers on perception. 


Carton 8. From Folder 21 to Folder 22.
Undated. Or non-dated, but trust a Griceian to date this: 1961.

With G. J. Warnock at Oxford. 

Grice and Warnock coined 'visa' but later discoined it ("I saw a visum of a cow.")


Preferred citation:


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Grice, H. P. and G. J. Warnock (1959). 'Vision,' The H. P. Grice Papers, Carton 8, Folder 21, BANC MSS 90/135c, The Bancroft Library, The University of California, Berkeley.
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Keyword: vision, 'see,' seeing. 



Preferred citation:

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Grice, H. P. and G. J. Warnock (1959). 'Taste,' The H. P. Grice Papers, Carton 8, Folder 22, BANC MSS 90/135c, The Bancroft Library, The University of California, Berkeley.

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Grice and Warnock are following Urmson, "The five senses" and "The objects of the five senses."

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"Perception"
Papers 
Carton 8, Folder 23. 
Undated. Or non-dated. But trust a Griceian to date this: 1960.

With G. J. Warnock at Oxford.


For citation see next item.

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"Perception" (Continued).
Notes
Carton 8, Folder 24.
Undated. Or non-dated, but trust a Griceian to date this! 1959!

Preferred citation:

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Grice, H. P. and G. J. Warnock (1959). 'Perception,' The H. P. Grice Papers, Carton 8, Folders 23 and 24, BANC MSS 90/135c, The Bancroft Library, University of California, Berkeley. 
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With G. J Warnock at Oxford.


Repr. in Grice, Philosophical Papers, vol. 2: The Collaborations. 



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"Perception"
Notes
-- with Richard Warner -- a later revision of Grice's reflections with Warnock.
Carton 8, Folder 25. 
1988

Preferred citation:

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Grice, H. P. and R. O. Warner (1988). 'Perception,' The H. P. Grice Papers, Carton 8, Folder 25, BANC MSS 90/135c, The Bancroft Library, University of California, Berkeley.
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Repr. in

Grice, H. P. Philosophical Papers, Volume II: The Collaborations. Clarendon Press.

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"Clear and Distinct Perception" 
Keyword: Descartes.
and 
"Dreaming"
Carton 8, Folder 26.
Undated. Or non-dated, but trust a Griceian to date this!

Preferred citation:

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Grice, H. P. (n.d.) 'Clear and distinct perception, and dreaming,' The H. P. Grice Papers, Carton 8, Folder 26, BANC MSS 90/135c, The Bancroft Library, University of California, Berkeley. 
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The reference to dreaming is to Malcolm!


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"A Pint of Philosophy" by Alfred Brook Gordon.
It includes some witty notes by Grice.
Carton 8, Folder 27. 
Circa 1951. Trust a Griceian to get rid of the overprolixic "circa."

Preferred citation:

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Grice, H. P. (1951). Notes on A. B. Gordon's 'A pint of philosophy,'' The H. P. Grice Papers, Carton 8, Folder 27, BANC MSS 90/135c, The Bancroft Library, University of California, Berkeley. 
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A pint of philosophy is a metaphor.

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"A Philosophy of Life" 
Notes

"Happiness" 
Notes
Carton 8, Folder 28. 

Undated. Or non-dated. But trust a Griceian to date all this!


Preferred citations:

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Grice, H. P. (n.d.) 'A philosophy of life,' The H. P. Grice Papers, Carton 8, Folder 28, BANC MSS 90/135c, The Bancroft Library, University of California, Berkeley.
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Keyword: philosophy of life. 

This item is cited by Richards in "The Unpublications of H. P. Grice." 

Preferred citation:

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Grice, H. P. (n.d.). 'Happiness,' The H. P. Grice Papers, Carton 8, Folder 28, BANC MSS 90/135c, The Bancroft Library, University of California, Berkeley.
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Grice expands on this in the appendix to "Aspects of reason" -- where, citing Ackrill, he develops a Fairy God-Mother Kantotelian approach to 'being happy.'

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"Lectures on Peirce"

Carton 8, Folder 29. 
Undated. Or non-dated. But trust a Griceian to date this: 1946.

Preferred citation:

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Grice, H. P. (n.d.). 'Lectures on Peirce,' The H. P. Grice Papers, Carton 8, Folder 29, BANC MSS 90/135c, The Bancroft Library, University of California, Berkeley. 
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A discussion of Peirce's 'techno-crypticisms'! 


The essay is particularly fascinating in that Grice quotes from Ogden and Richards!

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"Basic Pirotese, Sentence Semantics and Syntax"

Carton 8, Folder 30. 
Circa 1970. But trust a Griceian to get rid of the overprolixic "circa."

Preferred citation:

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Grice, H. P. (1970). 'Pirots karulise elatically,' The H. P. Grice Papers, Carton 8, Folder 30, BANC MSS 90/135c, The Bancroft Library, University of California, Berkeley. 
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"Pirotese" is Grice's "Deutero-Esperanto" (after Carnap, "Pirots karulise elatically.")

How pirots karulise elatically: some simpler ways.


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"Pirots and Obbles"

Carton 8, Folder 31. 
Undated. Or non-dated, but trust a Griceian to date this: 1973!

Preferred citation:

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Grice, H. P. (n.d.). 'Obbles,' The H. P. Grice Papers, BANC MSS 90/135c, The Bancroft Library, University of California, Berkeley. 

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"Obbles" are objects, only in Pirotese!
Grice trying to imitate J. L. Austin's way of words in HIS seminars ("Sense and Sensibilia," "How to do things with words," etc.)

Grice's "Pirotese" includes verbs like 'potching' and 'cotching'. For a pirot to potch an obble is to perceive it; to cotch it is to cognise it.

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"Methodology"
"Pirots"
Notes
Carton 8. From Folder 32 to Folder 33. 
Undated. Or non-dated, but trust a Griceian to date this!

Preferred citation:

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Grice, H. P. (n.d.). 'Pirots karulise elatically,' The H. P. Grice Papers, BANC MSS 90/135c, The Bancroft Library, University of California, Berkeley. 
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Carnap, who wasn't English, came up with "Pirots karulise elatically." He could have consulted the OED to see that a pirot is a fish.

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"Practical Reason"

Carton 9, Folder 1. 

Undated. Or non-dated, but trust a Griceian to date this!


Preferred citation:

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Grice, H. P. (n.d.). 'Practical reason,' The H. P. Grice Papers, BANC MSS 90/135c, The Bancroft Library, University of California, Berkeley. 
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Keyword: practical reason
Keyword: a critique of conversational reason

Kantotle's favourite idea!

As opposed to 'alethic' -- an adjective Grice loved!


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"Preliminary Valediction"


Carton 9, Folder 2. 
1985.

Preferred citation:

---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------Grice, H. P. (1985). 'Preliminary valediction,' The H. P. Grice Papers, BANC MSS 90/135c, The Bancroft Library, The University of California, Berkeley. 
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Repr. in WoW -- Studies in the Way of Words, as "Retrospective Epilogue."

"Valediction" is a genial word! This is in opposition to the postliminary valediction that eventually got published!

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"Presupposition and Implicative"

Carton 9, Folder 3. 
Circa 1979. Trust a Griceian to get rid of the 'circa'!

Preferred citation:

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Grice, H. P. (1979). 'Presuppposition and implicature,' The H. P. Grice Papers, BANC MSS 90/135c, The Bancroft Library, University of California, Berkeley.
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Keyword: presupposition
Keyword: implicature

That should read 'implicature'! Or at least 'implicate' it!


Grice opposed Strawson's idea of 'presupposition,' because he avoided truth-value gaps like the rats! Grice prefers to stick with 'implicature' ("The king of France is not bald" implicates there is a king of France) and 'entailment' ("The king of France is bald" entails there is a king of France). 

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"Probability and Life"

Carton 9, Folder 4. 
Undated. Or non-dated, but trust a Griceian to date this correctly!

Preferred citation:

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Grice, H. P. (n.d.). 'Probability and life,' The H. P. Grice Papers, BANC MSS 90/135c, The Bancroft Library, University of California, Berkeley. 
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Grice would technically oppose 'probability' to 'desirability'. He was also interested in developing a 'philosophy of life,' as part of his programme in philosophical psychology (or 'psychologia rationalis,' as he preferred). 


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"Rationality and Trust"
Notes
Carton 9, Folder 5. 
Undated. Or non-dated, but trust a Griceian to date this correctly!

Preferred citation:

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Grice, H. P. (n.d.). "Rationality and trust,' The H. P. Grice Papers, BANC MSS 90/135c, The Bancroft Library, The University of California, Berkeley. 
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Warnock bases his "Object of morality" on this crucial concept of 'trust.' Cfr. Grice on the principle of conversational self-interest and the principle of conversational benevolence.


Does trust have a rational basis?

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"Reasons"
Carton 9, Folder 7. 
1966

Preferred citation:

---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------Grice, H. P. (1966). 'Reasons,' The H. P. Grice Papers, BANC MSS 90/135c, The Bancroft Library, University of California, Berkeley.
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Keyword: reason.

The main value of this unpublication is the date! It shows that Grice was feeling 'enough of a rationalist' (anathema in Oxford) by then!

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"Reflections on Morals" -- a 'book-length piece."

Carton 9, Folder 7. 
Circa 1980. Trust a Griceian to get rid of the 'circa'!

Preferred citation:

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Grice, H. P. (1980). 'Reflections on morals,' The H. P. Grice Papers, BANC MSS 90/135c, The Bancroft Library, University of California, Berkeley. 
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Keyword: ethics.

Note that there is a similar unpublication co-written with J. Baker that bears the same title. 

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"Russell and Heterologicality" 

Carton 9, Folder 8.
Undated. Or non-dated, but trust a Griceian to date this.

Preferred citation:

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Grice, H. P. (n.d.). 'Russell and heterologicality,' The H. P. Grice Papers, BANC MSS 90/135c, The Bancroft Library, University of California, Berkeley. 
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Historical: on Russell and his infamous paradox. Grice refers to Russell in "Definite descriptions in Russell and in the vernacular" and was much offended by Russell's response to "Mr. Strawson" in "Mind"!


He called his self a Russellian, though!

(i) 'Heterological' is heterological.

Grice is interested in the 'implicatures' of Russell's paradox. 

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Notes on Schiffer.

Carton 9, Folder 9. 
Undated. Or non-dated, but trust a Griceian to date this, correctly!

Preferred citation:

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Grice, H. P. (n.d.) 'Notes on Schiffer,' The H. P. Grice Papers, BANC MSS 90/135c, The Bancroft Library, University of California, Berkeley.
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Keyword: H. P. Grice, S. R. Schiffer.

Schiffer met Grice at Oxford, when Schiffer was getting a D. Phil under P. F. Strawson.


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"Semantics of Children's Language."
Carton 9, Folder 10.
Undated. Or non-dated, but trust a Griceian to date this.

Preferred citation:

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Grice, H. P. (n.d.). 'Semantics of children's language,' The H. P. Grice Papers, BANC MSS 90/135c, The Bancroft Library, The University of California, Berkeley. 
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Grice would experiment linguistic exercises with his two children -- and their friends!

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"Sentence Semantics"
Carton 9, Folder 11.
Undated. Or non-dated, but trust a Griceian to date this correctly!

Preferred citation:

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Grice, H. P. (n.d.). 'Sentence semantics,' The H. P. Grice Papers, BANC MSS 90/135c, The Bancroft Library, The University of California, Berkeley.
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Note that "Sentence semantics" fills two folders: 11 and 12. 

Grice does NOT really refer to sentence (too Chomskyan a concept) in "Utterer's meaning, sentence meaning, and word meaning.'

In "Reply to Richards," he gives 'sentence' as an example of a value-oriented word (as 'king' and 'cabbage').

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Sentence Semantics (continued from Folder 11).
"Propositional Complexes"
Carton 9, Folder 12. 
Undated. Or non-dated, but trust a Griceian to date this correctly!

Preferred citations:
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Grice, H. P. (n.d.). 'Sentence semantics,' The H. P. Grice Papers, BANC MSS 90/135c, The Bancroft Library, University of California, Berkeley.
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Keyword: sentence -- Grice has 'sentence' as a 'value-oriented' item, as 'king' and 'cabbage'. An ill-formed 'sentence' ain't no sentence!


---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------Grice, H. P. (n.d.). 'Propositional complexes,' The H. P. Grice Papers, BANC MSS 90/135c, The Bancroft Library, University of California, Berkeley.
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Keyword: propositional complex
Keyword: proposition

Grice was never committed to 'propositions,' only 'propositional complexes'!


The keywod is of course, 'propositional complex.' The notion relates to the constructivist approach to 'content' as elaborated by C. A. B. Peacocke at both Oxford and Berkeley.


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"Significance of the Middle Book in Aristotle's Metaphysics" by Alan Dodds Code

Carton 9, Folder 13. 
Undated. Or non-dated, but trust a Griceian to date this correctly!

Preferred citation:

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Grice, H. P. (n.d.). 'Notes on 'The Significance of the Middle Book in Aristotle's Metaphysics,' by A. D. Code,' The H. P. Grice Papers, BANC MSS 90/135c, The Bancroft Library, University of California, Berkeley.

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KEYWORD: Loeb is all you need.

Historical. Vide: "Kantotle."

Grice and Code would spend HOURS discussing Aristotle's metaphysics. Grice relied on the Greek -- the Loeb editions and the OUP editions -- Code didn't!


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"Social Justice"

Carton 9, Folder 14. 
Undated. 
Or non-dated, but trust a Griceian to date this correctly!

Preferred citation:

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Grice, H. P. (n.d.). 'Social justice,' The H. P. Grice Papers, BANC MSS 90/135c, The Bancroft Library, University of California, Berkeley. 
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Keyword: justice
Keyword: social justice
Keyword: fairness

As opposed to--? Oddly, Rawls cites Grice's "Personal identity."


Grice had a historical interest in justice after reading Aristotle's Politics.

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"Subjective" Conditions and Intentions

Carton 9, Folder 15.
Undated. 
Or non-dated, but trust a Griceian to date this correctly!

Preferred citation:

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Grice, H. P. (n.d.). ''Subjective' conditions and intentions,' The H. P. Grice Papers, BANC MSS 90/135c, The Bancroft Library, The University of California, Berkeley.

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Keyword: intention 
Keyword: subjective condition


Note Grice's use of the scare quotes!


This forms part of Grice's extensive 'conceptual' analysis of 'intending'. Cfr. his "Intention and uncertainty" and "Dispositions and intentions." His account of 'meaning' is of course based on the idea of 'intending,' so the notion was especially dear to him. 

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"Super-Relatives"

Carton 9, Folder 16. 
Undated. Or non-dated, but trust a Griceian to date this correctly!

Preferred citation:

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Grice, H. P. (n.d.). 'Super-relatives,' The H. P. Grice Papers, BANC MSS 90/135c, The Bancroft Library, University of California, Berkeley.
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Keyword: relative
Keyword: super-relative

Grice distinguishes betweeen 'common-or-garden' relatives and the 'super' ones!!

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"Syntax and Semantics"
Carton 9. From Folder 17 to Folder 18. 

Undated. 
Or non-dated, but trust a Griceian to date this correctly!

Preferred citation:

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Grice, H. P. (n.d.). 'Syntax and semantics,' The H. P. Grice Papers, BANC MSS 90/135c, The Bancroft Library, University of California, Berkeley.
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Grice develops a syntax and a semantics for System G in "Vacuous Names." This is the only place where Grice is using the terms alla Gentzen.

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"The 'That' and 'Why'" 
Metaphysics 
Notes 
Carton 9, Folder 1.

From 1986 to 1987.

Preferred citation:

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Grice, H. P. (1987). The 'that' and the 'why,'' The H. P. Grice Papers, BANC MSS 90/135c, The Bancroft Library, University of California, Berkeley.
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By the 'that', Grice means the 'descriptive' aims of some philosophers and scientists. By the 'why,' Grice means the search for an explanation -- obvious enough!

---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------Grice, H. P. (1987). 'Notes on metaphysics,' The H. P. Grice Papers, BANC MSS 90/135c, The Bancroft Library, University of California, Berkeley. 
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Trust, Metaphysics, Value, etc.
Various work.
Carton 9, Folder 20. 

With Judith Baker
Undated. 
Or non-dated, but trust a Griceian to date all this correctly.

I especially love the "Etc"!

Preferred citations:

---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------Grice, H. P. (n.d.) 'Trust, metaphysics, value,' The H. P. Grice Papers, BANC MSS 90/135c, The Bancroft Library, University of California, Berkeley.
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Keyword: trust
Keyword: metaphysics
Keyword: value

The main keyword is 'trust,' which one thinks as a human thing, rather than a purely metaphysical one!

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Grice, H. P. and J. Baker (n.d.) 'Various works,' The H. P. Grice Papers, BANC MSS 90/135c, The Bancroft Library, University of California, Berkeley. 
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Warnock bases his whole "Object of morality" on the super-significant idea of 'trust.' Grice followed suit!


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UNIVERSALIA
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Grice, H. P. (1987). "Universals," Series V, Carton 9, Folder 21. 

Preferred citation:

---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------Grice, H. P. (1987). 'Universals,' The H. P. Grice Papers, BANC MSS 90/135c, The Bancroft Library, University of California, Berkeley.
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Grice lists "Nominalism" as one of the monsters pilgrim Grice encounters on his way to the City of Eternal Truth. So he would reject Occam's view.

Note that the difference between this item and the next one is that the next one is co-authored with Michael Friedman. 

A good thing about this is that it is dated! 

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UNIVERSALIA
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Grice, H. P. and Michael Friedman (1987). "Universals," Series V, Carton IX, Folder 22. 

To be reprinted in Grice, "Philosophical Papers, Volume II: The Collaborations" (Clarendon).

Preferred citation:

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Grice, H. P. and M. Friedman (1987). 'Universals,' The H. P. Grice Papers, Series V, Carton IX, Folder, 22, BANC MSS 90/135c, The Bancroft Library, The University of California, Berkeley.
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The keyword should be: universalia, which is the way Ockham referred to this in both Oxford and Paris. 

A VERY GOOD thing about this is that it is dated 1987. Grice died in August 1988, so this is one of his latest rendering of his thoughts in print. Friedman helped!


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Grice, H. P. "Value, Metaphysics, and Teleology," Series V, Carton IX, Folder 23.  Undated. Or non-dated, but trust a Griceian to date all this!

Preferred citation:

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Grice, H. P. (n.d.). 'Value, metaphysics, and teleology,' The H. P. Grice Papers, Series V, Carton IX, Folder 23, BANC MSS 90/135c, The Bancroft Library, The University of California, Berkeley.
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Grice is serious about 'teleology.' He considers 'finality' a crucial philosophical problem. And in the acronym used by Richards, PGRICE, the "E" stands for 'end' -- as in "Howard's End" ("Rude, that," as Rita says in "Educating Rita").

The keyword is 'teoleology.' Grice sees Mechanism as one of the monsters on his way to the City of Eternal Truth!

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VIRTUES, MORALS, ABSOLUTES, AND THE METAPHYSICAL
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Grice, H. P. "Values, Morals, Absolutes, and the Metaphysical," Series V, 
Carton IX, Folder 24. Undated. Or rather non-dated, but trust a Griceian to date this correctly.

Preferred citation:

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A rather pretentious title -- very Grice!


But basically, Grice being a coherentist philosopher, wants to find a metaphysical niche for value, and relate it to morality broadly. The idea of the absolute, while Hegelian in spirit, is Griceian in implicature!

Grice was interested in the relative/absolute disitinction after reading the rather light booklet by J. L. Mackie whom he had met at Oxford. 

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VALUE SUB-SYSTEMS AND THE KANTIAN PROBLEM
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Miscellaneous 
Value Sub-systems, the "Kantian Problem"
Carton 9, Folder 25 to Folder 27. 

Undated. 

Or non-dated, but trust a Griceian to date all this. 

Preferred citations:

---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------Grice, H. P. (n.d.) 'Miscellaneous,' The H. P. Grice Papers, Series V, Carton IX, Folders 25-27, BANC MSS 90/135c, The Bancroft Library, The University of California, Berkeley.
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Preferred citation:

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Grice, H. P. (n.d.) 'Value sub-systems,' The H. P. Grice Papers, Series V, Carton IX, Folders 25-27, BANC MSS 90/135c, The Bancroft Library, The University of California, Berkeley.
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KEYWORD: value
KEYWORD: value system

Preferred citation:

---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------Grice, H. P. (n.d.). 'The Kantian problem,' The H. P. Grice Papers, Series V, Carton IX, Folders 25-27, BANC MSS 90/135c, The Bancroft Library, The University of California, Berkeley.
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KEYWORD: Kant

Historical: Vide: "Kantotle."

Grice on 'problems': "if philosophy generated no new problems it would be dead."

When Grice refers to a value system and a value sub-system, he is taking 'system' seriously!

Since these occupies THREE folders, it's best to consider Folder 25 containing the miscellanea; the Folder 26 containing the essay on value sub-system, and Folder 27 containing Grice's view on Kant's big problem (if he had one). 


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Grice, H. P. "Values and Rationalism" -- Series V, Carton 9, Folder 28. Undated. Or non-dated, but trust a Griceian to date this correctly!

Preferred quotation:

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Grice, H. P. (n.d.). 'Values and rationalism,' The H. P. Grice Papers, Series V, Carton IX, Folder 28, BANC MSS 90/135c, The Bancroft Library, The University of California, Berkeley.
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KEYWORD: value
KEYWORD: rationalism

Grice on the challenge of irrationalist (his discussion of Mackie, a philosopher Grice did not particularly like!)

Grice is proposing a response to the irrationalism re: values defended inter alii by H. Putnam and J. L. Mackie. Oddly, Putnam quotes from Grice and Baker in his reflections on this. 

Grice rejects Foot's idea of a 'virtue,' but he is interested in what ways a virtue meta-theoretical framework can fit his avowed rationalism.

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VIRTUES AND VICES
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Grice, H. P. Notes on "Virtues and Vices" by Philippa Foot -- Series V -- Carton 9, Folder 29. Undated. Or non-dated, but trust a Griceian to date this, and get to the root of it!

Preferred quotation:
---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------Grice, H. P. (n.d.). 'Notes on Philippa Foot's 'Virtues and vices,'' The H. P. Grice Papers, Series V, Carton IX, Folder, 29, BANC MSS 90/135c, The Bancroft Library, University of California, Berkeley.
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Foot ends up as a footnote in "Conception of Value." Great philosopher. Taught at Somerville!


Grice was NOT a 'virtue' moralist. He rejects Foot's distinctions between a virtue and a vice. But Grice's favourite motto (or one of his favourite ones) was, "Philosophy, like virtue, is entire." Unfortunately, by the same token, vice is also entire? (Is that Grice's implicature?)

Note that the fact that this essay by Grice on 'virtues' is here catalogued as it is because David Farrell and others organised Grice's stuff alphabetically.

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WANTS AND NEEDS
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Grice, H. P. "Wants and Needs" -- Series V -- Carton 9, Folders 30 and 31. The notes range from 1974 to 1975.

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Grice, H. P. (1975). 'Wants and needs,' The H. P. Grice Papers, Series V, Carton IX, Folders 30 and 31, BANC MSS 90/135c, The Bancroft Library, The University of California, Berkeley.
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While Grice uses "W" as a psychological predicate in "Vacuous Names," he would distinguish between 'wanting' and 'intending.' "Needing" is a different animal!

Grice is into a philosophical conceptual analysis of "A wants that p," and "A needs that p." He finds them akin to the 'boulemaic' operators that he opposes to the 'alethic' or 'doxastic' operators.

It is best to consider Folder 30 containing Grice's notes on 'wanting.'

Folder 31, on the other hand, contains Grice's notes on 'needing.'

It should be realised that David Farrell and other members of the Bancroft organised the Grice notes 'alphabetically,' so it's no surprise Grice's reflections on 'wanting' is the last item in the last folder in the last carton in the last series!

Enjoy!

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REFERENCES

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Ackrill, J. L. Aristotle on eudaimonia. British Academy.
-- cited by Grice, in "Happiness" essay in "Aspects of Reason."
Aristotle -- The Loeb Library.
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Holdcroft, D. Correspondence
Holdcroft, D. On Conversation and Grice, Leeds. 
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Petrus, Essays on Grice.

Potts, T. Correspondence
-- On Grice. Potts studied under Grice at Oxford. 

Prichard, Essays on willing, ed. by Urmson. 

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Sainsbury, R. M. On Grice
-- Correspondence

Searle, J. R. In PGRICE. Grice cites Searle in "Utterer's meaning and intentions."
-- Speech acts and conversation

Speranza, L. Join the Grice Club! -- Speranza grew an interest for Grice just to be eccentric! And he got it! 

Stampe, D. W. Correspondence
-- and Patton on Grice. Grice cites Stampe in "Utterer's meaning and intentions."

Strawson, P. F. (1964). Intention and convention in speech acts, repr. in Logico-Linguistic Papers.
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Stroud, B. Grice. A memoir. With G. J. Warnock. 

Urmson, J. O. Obituary of Grice. The Independent. 
-- Correspondence. Grice cites Urmson in "Utterer's meaning and intention."

Wood, O. P. Correspondence. Wood is cited by Grice, "Some remarks about the senses" (footnote -- not in the WoW reprint)

Woozley, A. D. Correspondence -- Woozley is cited by Harnish, "Logical form and implicature."