H. P. Grice: A Catalogue Raisonné

Speranza

What would a catalogue raisonné of "Griceiana" look like?

I propose a few hints.

It should include Grice's oeuvre, of course, both his publications and his unpublications. But also a secondary bibliography, as it were -- notably oeuvre by his Oxonian colleagues.

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.

The unpublications have been catalogued in six series. 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!

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(A) 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.

Grice, H. P. (1948). Meaning. Repr. in WoW

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.

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

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

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

Grice, H. P. (1957). Meaning. The Philosophical Review. Repr. in WoW.

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

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.

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.

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

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.

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.

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.

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

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."

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Regarding (A1), some secondary bibliography should be appended just after the item by Grice.

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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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Grice, H. P. (1948). Meaning. 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!

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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!)

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Grice, H. P. (1966). Some remarks about the senses. In Butler, 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!

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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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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!

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

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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!

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Grice, H. P. (1957). Meaning. The Philosophical Review. Repr. in WoW.

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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. (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. (1968). Utterer's meaning, sentence meaning, and word meaning. The Foundations of Language. Being the sixth William James lecture, repr. in WoW.

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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. (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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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.

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

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

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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. (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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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!")

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Grice, H. P. and 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!

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

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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).

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

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This was edited by J. Baker, but don't spread the word!

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

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This was edited by R. O. Warner, but don't spread the word!

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

should be divided into:

A) Items NOT contained at the Bancroft.

B) ITEMS CONTAINED AT THE BANCROFT.

As to (B), there is:

Series I

H. P. Grice's Personal Correspondence --

rainging from 1947 to 1988

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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.

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JONATHAN BENNETT

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.

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JUDITH BAKER (Grice's student at Berkeley)

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!

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GEORGE P. BEALER (Grice's student at Reed)
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!

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ALAN DODDS CODE (Grice's student and colleague at UC/Berkeley)

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.

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PATRICK SUPPES (Grice's friend -- a Stanford connection -- "Hands across the bay")

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."

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RICHARD ORVILLE WARNER (Grice's student at UC/Berkeley)

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!

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RICHARD WYATT

Wyatt, Richard --

1981

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General to H. P. Grice

From 1947 to 1986

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General

From 1972 to 1988

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Various published papers on Grice

1968

Series II

Series II consists of publications by H. P. Grice.

They range from 1957 to 1989

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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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"Meaning"

1957 

-- 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

-- repr. in WoW (Way of Words)

This essay 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"

1958

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

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

-- 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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William James Lectures on Logic and Conversation.

-- 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

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

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

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.

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"Vacuous Names"

1969

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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Urbana Lectures -- the first eight lectures -- From Lecture I to Lecture VIII. 

From 1970 to 1971

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Urbana Lectures 

Lecture IX 

From 1970 to 1971

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"Intention and Uncertainty" 

Circa 1971

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" 

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 

repr. as Grice 1991.

Lectures I-III

1973

The Conception of Value

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

1986

The Conception of Value

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

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

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

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

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

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.'

Carton 2

From Folder 26 to Folder 28

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

1978

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!)

Carton 2

From Folder 29 to Folder 30

The John Locke Lectures "Aspects of Reason," Oxford

1979

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.

Carton 3

From Folder 1 to Folder 5

"Actions and Events"

Circa 1985

repr. in the Pacific Philosophical Quarterly.

Published in the Pacific Philosophical Quarterly.

A rather mixed bag -- A discussion of Davidson, et al. 

Carton 3

Folder 6

"Post-War Oxford Philosophy"

1986

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").

Carton 3

From Folder 7 to Folder 21

"Studies in the Way of Words" 

repr. as WoW, Way of Words (Harvard)

1986-1989

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!

Carton 3

From Folder 22 to Folder 25

"Retrospective Foreword"

1987

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.

Carton 3

Folder 26

"Retrospective Epilogue" 

1987

Repr. in WoW, Way of Words.

Carton 4

Folder 1

"Retrospective Epilogue"

1987

Repr. in WoW, Way of Words.

Carton 4

Folder 2

"Retrospective Epilogue and Foreword" 

1987

Repr. in WoW, Way of Words.

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

Carton 4

From Folder 3 to Folder 4 

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

1988

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.

Carton 4

Folder 5

Grice's Reprints

From 1953 to 1986

Good reprints!

The journals would send them and Grice kept them!

Carton 4

Folder 6

"Aristotle on Being and Good"

Undated

Part of this becomes "Aristotle on the multiplicity of being." With Kant, Aristotle was Grice's favourite author ("Kantotle")

Carton 4

Folder 7

"Aristotle on the Multiplicity of Being"

Undated

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."

Carton 4

Folder 8

"Aristotle: Pleasure"

Undated

Aristotle, with Kant ("Kantotle"), was one of Grice's favourite philosophers.

Carton 4

Folder 9

"Conversational Implicative"

Undated

That shoud read or implicate 'implicature'!

Carton 4

Folder 10

"Negation I"

Undated 

1938

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.

Carton 4

Folder 11

"Negation II"  

Undated 

1961

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."

Carton 4

Folder 12

"Personal Identity" (including notes on Hume)

Undated

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!

Carton 4

Folder 13

"Philosopher's Paradoxes" 

Undated

This was repr. in WoW (Way of Words). It is a historical essay on Malcolm and Moore.

Carton 4

Folder 14

"A Philosopher's Prospectus"

Undated

Carton 4

Folder 15

"Philosophy and Ordinary Language"

Undated

Note the NON-USE of 'ordinary language philosophy'!

Carton 4

Folder 16

"Some Reflections about Ends and Happiness"

Undated

This was included by R. O. Warner as an appendix to the Locke lectures (Clarendon Press). It quotes from Ackrill.

Carton 4

From Folder 17 to Folder 25

"Reflections on Morals"

With Judith Baker

Undated

Some of these were repr. by Baker in her essay on Grice in "Meaning and analysis".

Carton 4

Folder 26

"Reply to G. E. M. Anscombe"

Undated

Anscombe never heard it!

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

Carton 4

From Folder 27 to Folder 30

"Reply to Richards"

Undated

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

Series III

Teaching Materials

Ranging 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 includes seminars and lectures given during Grice's years as a Professor Emeritus at UC/Berkeley.

Carton 5

Folder 1

Student Notes on Grice's Seminar 

Cornell

1964

Grice loved Cornell -- and Cornell loved Grice!

Carton 5

Folder 2

Grice's Seminar

1969

Carton 5

Folder 3

Notes for "Philosophy 290-2"

Jointly taught with Judith Baker

1992

The section 1 was given 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).

Carton 5

Folder 4

Material for the course "Philosophy 290-2"

1993

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

Carton 5

From Folder 5 to Folder 6

"Kant's Ethical Theory" 

Seminar

From 1974 to 1977

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.")

Carton 5

Folder 7

"Aristotle's Ethics"

Seminar

From 1975 to 1996

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"!

Carton 5

Folder 8

Notes for the course, "Philosophy 290"

Kant (Volume I)

Seminar 

With Judith Baker

From 1976 to 1977

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"!

Carton 5

Folder 9

"Kant's Ethics"

Volume II 

1977

Historical: Vide "Kantotle."

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

Carton 5

From Folder 10 to Folder 13

The Immanuel Kant Lectures

Stanford

1977

repr. by R. O. Warner for The Clarendon Press.

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".

Carton 5

From Folder 14 to Folder 15

Notes for the course, "Philosophy 290."

From 1977 to 1978

Grice managed NEVER to teach an undergrad course at Berkeley!

Carton 5

From Folder 16 to Folder 17

"Kant's Ethics"

The so-called "Volume III"

1978

Historical: Vide: "Kantotle."

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

Carton 5

Folder 18

"Knowledge and Belief"

Seminar

From 1979 to 1980

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.

Carton 5

From Folder 19 to Folder 21

"Kant's Ethics"

The so-called "Volume V" 

Seminar

From 1980 to 1982

Historical: Vide: "Kantotle."

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

Carton 5

Folder 22

Notes for the course, "Philosophy 200."

Jointly taught by Grice and Myro

1982

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!

Carton 5

Folder 23

"Kant"

Notes 

1982

Historical: Vide: "Kantotle."

Carton 5

Folder 24

Metaphysics and the Language of Philosophy

1983

Carton 5

Folder 25

"Freedom"

Seminar

Undated

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!

Carton 5

Folder 26

Grice 

Lectures

Undated

Carton 5

From Folder 27 to Folder 28

"Kant's Ethics"

Seminar

Undated

Historical. Vide: "Kantotle."

Carton 5

Folder 29

"The Criteria of Intelligence" 

Lectures II-IV

Undated

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

Carton 5

Folder 30

UC/Berkeley, 

"Modest Mentalism"

Undated

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

Carton 5

Folder 31

Topics for Pursuit, Zeno, Socrates 

Notes

Undated

Carton 6

From Folder 1 to Folder 2

Grice/Staal 

Seminar

Syntax, Semantics, and Phonetics

Undated

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

Carton 6

Folder 3

Grice/Staal, "That"-Clause

Undated

Series IV

Notes involving Grice's Professional Associations

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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Carton 6

Folder 4

"Entailment" 

Symposium

American Philosophical Association

1971

"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!

Carton 6

From Folder 5 to Folder 6

Stanford - 

"Some Aspects of Reason" 

Kant

1977

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

Carton 6

Folder 7

Conferences 

"Causality" 

Colloquium

Stanford University

Circa 1978

Carton 6

Folder 8

Conferences  

Discussion 

American Philosophical Association.

Randall Parker's Transcription of Audio-Tapes

From 1983 to 1989

Carton 6

Folder 9

"The Unity of Science and Teleology" 

"Hands Across the Bay" and 

Beanfest

1985

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!)

Carton 6

Folder 10

Beanfest 

Transcripts and Audio Cassettes

1985

Carton 6

Folder 11

"Universals"

Group 

1987

Carton 6

Folder 12

"Universals"

Group 

Partial Working Copy

1987

Carton 10

Audio Files of various lectures and conferences

From 1970 to 1986

Series V

Materials by Grice, ranging from 1951 to 1988

Carton 6 (from Folder13  to Foder 38)

Carton 7 to Carton 9

The items are arranged alphabetically. 

The series 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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Carton 6

From Folder 13 to Folder 14

"The Analytic/Synthetic Division"

1983

"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.'

Carton 6

Folder 15

Aristotle and "Categories"

Undated

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').

Carton 6

Folder 16

"Aristotle's Ethics"

Undated

Carton 6

Folder 17

"Aristotle and Friendship"

Undated

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.

Carton 6

Folder 18

"Aristotle and Friendship, Rationality, Trust, and Decency"

Undated

"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!

Carton 6

Folder 19

"Aristotle and Multiplicity"

Undated

Many what?
Repr. as "Aristotle on the multiplicity of being," Pacific Philosophical Quarterly.

Carton 6

Folder 20

G. P. Bealer 

Notes

Undated

Vide: Speranza, Correspondence with Bealer.

Carton 6

Folder 21

Philosophy

Notes

Berkeley Group Team 

1983

Note the redundancy ("be brief"): "group team."

Carton 6

Folder 22

"The Casual Theory Perception"

Undated

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!)

Carton 6

Folder 23

"Categories"

With P. F. Strawson

Undated

With P. F. Strawson at Oxford. Discussion. Some linguistic botanising on things like, 'Where is Banbury's generosity?' 

Carton 6

Folder 24

"Categorical Imperatives"

1981

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

Carton 6

Folder 25

"The Logical Construction Theory of Personal Identity"

Undated

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.

Carton 6

Folder 26

Davidson's "On Saying That" 

Undated

Cfr. Grice/Staal on the 'that'-clause. Originally a demonstrative, it can be dropped, but never by Grice!

Carton 6

From Folder 27 to Folder 28

"Descartes" 

Notes

Undated

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!

Carton 6

Folder 29

"Grice on Denials of Indicative Conditionals" 

by Michael Sinton

Circa 1971

Carton 6

Folder 30

"Dispositions and Intentions"

Notes

Undated

A very important essay.

To be reprinted in Grice, "Philosophical Papers" (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!

Carton 6

Folder 31

"Dogmas of Empiricism"

Undated

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!)

Carton 6

Folder 32

"Emotions and Incontinence" 

Undated

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

Carton 6

Folder 33

"Entailment and Paradoxes"

Undated

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

Carton 6

From Folder 34 to Folder 35

"Ethics"

Notes 

With Judith Baker

Undated

Carton 6

Folder 36

"Ethics"

North Carolina 

Notes

Undated

Carton 6

Folder 37

Notes for Festschrift and 

Warner 

Notes

Circa 1981-1982

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

Carton 6

Folder 38

"Finality" 

Notes 

With Alan D. Code

Undated

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

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

Carton 7

Folder 1

"Form, Type, and Implication" 

by Grice

Undated

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

Carton 7

Folder 2

"Frege, Words and Sentences"

Notes

Undated

KEYWORD: Frege. To be published by the International Frege Society, if there is one!

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!

Carton 7

Folder 3

"Fundamental Principles of the Metaphysic of Ethics" by Kant

Undated

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

Historical. Vide: "Kantotle."

Carton 7

Folder 4

"Foundations of the Metaphysics of Morals"

Undated

Historical: Vide: "Kantotle."

Carton 7

Folder 5

"Grammar and Semantics"

With Richard O. Warner

Undated

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!)

Carton 7

Folder 6

Happiness, Discipline, and Implicatives

Undated

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

Carton 7

Folder 7

Hume

Notes 

1975

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)

Carton 7

From Folder 8 to Folder 9

Hume's Account on Personal Identity 

Notes

Undated

Discussed by J. Haugeland. 

Carton 7

Folder 10

"Identity"

Notes 

With George Myro

1973

To be reprinted in Grice, "Philosophical Papers, Volume II: 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.

Carton 7

From Folders 11 to Folder 12

"Ifs and Cans"

Undated

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

Carton 7

Folder 13

"Irony, Stress, and Truth"

Undated

repr. in WoW, Way of Words.

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

Carton 7

From Folder 14 to Folder 16

"Kant"

Notes

From 1981 to 1982

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). 

Carton 7

Folder 17

"Kant's Ethics" 

1982

Historical: Vide: "Kantotle."

Carton 7

Folder 18

Kant, Midsentences, Freedom

Undated

Carton 7

Folder 19

"Language and Reference"

Circa 1966

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!

Carton 7

Folder 20

Language Semantics

Undated

Carton 7

From Folder 21 to Folder 22

John Locke Lecture 

Oxford

Notes

1979

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

Carton 7

Folder 23

"Logical Form and Action Sentences"

Undated

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

Carton 7

From Folder 24 to Folder 25

"Meaning and Psychology"

Undated

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!

Carton 7

From Folder 26 to Folder 27

"Metaphysics"

Notes 

1988

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

Carton 7

Folder 28

"Metaphysics and Ill-Will"

Undated

Interesting elaboration on the idea of 'ill-will' -- cfr. Grice on benevolence and self-interest, conversational style.

Why the hyphen in 'ill-will'?

Carton 7

Folder 29

"Metaphysics and Theorizing"

Undated

A response to Mrs. Jack on reductive vs. reductionist analysis -- and theory versus intuition. 

Note the spelling, theorising (NOT!)

Carton 7

Folder 30

"Method and Myth" 

Notes

Undated

Cfr. T. Wharton on 'myth.'

Carton 7

Folder 31

"Mill's Induction"

Undated

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."

Carton 7

Folder 32

Miscellaneous  

Actions and Events 

Undated

Repr. in "Actions and Events," Pacific Philosophical Quarterly.

Carton 8

Folder 1

Miscellaneous 

With Judith Baker

Undated

Carton 8

Folder 2

"Metaphysics"

Miscellaneous

Notes

From 1987 to 1988

Carton 8

Folder 3

"Oxford Philosophy"

Miscellaneous

Undated

Grice liked to see "Oxonian dialectic' as a reincarnation of the Athenian dialectic. Some found this snobby!

Carton 8

From Folders 4 to Folder 8

"Philosophy"

Miscellaneous

Notes

From 1981 to 1985

Carton 8

From Folder 9 to Folder 13

"Philosophy"

Miscellaneous 

Topics

Undated

Carton 8

From Folder 14 to Folder 15

"Modality, Desirability, and Probability"

Undated

Presented at a conference, but unpublished "for technical reasons."

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

Carton 8

From Folder 16 to Folder 17

Nicomachean Ethics

Aristotle's Ethics

From 1975 to 1976.

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!)

Carton 8

Folder 18

"Objectivity and Value"

Undated

Repr. in "The conception of value," ed. by J. Baker.

Carton 8

Folder 19

"Objective Value"

"Rational Motivation"

Circa 1978

Carton 8

Folder 20

Oddents: Urbane and Not Urbane

Undated

Carton 8

From Folder 21 to Folder 22

"Vision," "Taste," and other Perception Papers

Undated

With G. J. Warnock at Oxford. 

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

Carton 8

Folder 23

Perception

Papers 

Undated

With G. J. Warnock at Oxford.

Carton 8

Folder 24

Perception 

Notes

Undated

With G. J Warnock at Oxford.

Carton 8

Folder 25

Perception 

Notes

-- with Richard Warner

1988

Carton 8

Folder 26

"Clear and Distinct Perception" 

Keyword: Descartes.

and 

"Dreaming"

Undated

The reference to dreaming is to Malcolm!

Carton 8

Folder 27

"A Pint of Philosophy" by Alfred Brook Gordon.

It icludes notes by Grice.

Circa 1951

Carton 8

Folder 28

"A Philosophy of Life" 

Notes

"Happiness" 

Notes

Undated

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Folder 29

"Lectures on Pierce"

Undated

A discussion of Pierce's 'techno-crypticisms'! 

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Folder 30

"Basic Pirotese, Sentence Semantics and Syntax"

Circa 1970

"Pirotese" is Grice's "Deutero-Esperanto" (after Carnap, "Pirots karulise elatically.")

How pirots karulise elatically: some simpler ways

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Folder 31

"Pirots and Obbles"

Undated

"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.)

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From Folder 32 to Folder 33

"Methodology"
"Pirots"

Notes

Undated

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Folder 1

"Practical Reason"

Undated

Kantotle's favourite idea!

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

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Folder 2

"Preliminary Valediction"

1985

Repr. in WoW -- Studies in the Way of Words, as "Retrospective Epilogue."

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Folder 3

"Presupposition and Implicative"

Circa 1979

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

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Folder 4

"Probability and Life"

Undated

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Folder 5

"Rationality and Trust"

Notes

Undated

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.

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Folder 6

"Reasons"

1966

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Folder 7

"Reflections on Morals"

Circa 1980

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Folder 8

"Russell and Heterologicality" 

Undated

Historical: on Russell and his infamous paradox.

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Folder 9

Schiffer

Undated

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

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Folder 10

Semantics of Children's Language

Undated

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Folder 11

Sentence Semantics 

Undated

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Folder 12

Sentence Semantics 

"Propositional Complexes"

Undated

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

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Folder 13

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

Undated

Historical. Vide: "Kantotle."

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Folder 14

"Social Justice"

Undated

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

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Folder 15

"Subjective" Conditions and Intentions

Undated

Note Grice's use of the scare quotes!

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Folder 16

Super-Relatives 

Undated

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From Folder 17 to Folder 18

"Syntax and Semantics"

Undated

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Folder 1   

The 'That" and "Why" 

Metaphysics 

Notes 

From 1986 to 1987

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Folder 20

Trust, Metaphysics, Value, etc.

Various work

With Judith Baker

Undated

Warnock bases his whole "Object of morality" on the super-significant idea of 'trust.' Grice followed suit!

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Folder 21

Universals

1987

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Folder 22

Universals

With Michael Friedman

1987

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Folder 23

"Value, Metaphysics, and Teleology"

Undated

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Folder 24

Values, Morals, Absolutes, and the Metaphysical

Undated

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Folder 25 to Folder 27

Miscellaneous 

Value Sub-systems, the "Kantian Problem"

Undated

Historical: Vide: "Kantotle."

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Folder 28

"Values and Rationalism"

Undated

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

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Folder 29

"Virtues and Vices" by Philippa Foot

Undated

Foot ends up as a footnote in "Conception of Value." Great philosopher. Taught at Somerville!

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Folder 30 to Folder 31

"Wants and Needs"

From 1974 to 1975