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Thursday, February 13, 2020

D. Bostock on H. P. Grice

David Bostock is an English philosopher and a Fellow of Merton, Oxford.


Bostock is one of four children of Edward and Alice Bostock. 

Bostock is educated at Amesbury in HindheadSurrey, and at Charterhouse, before undertaking his National Service as a 2nd Lieutenant in the Surrey Regiment.

Having read Literae Humaniores under H. P. Grice at St John’s, Oxford, and after stipendiary posts at Leicester, Canberra, and Harvard, Bostock serves as a Fellow and Tutor in philosophy at Merton, Oxford.


Bostock writes extensively on a range of philosophical issues, with particular focus on ancient philosophy. 
Bostock's publications included:

BOSTOCK, D. Logic and Arithmetic (Oxford, Clarendon Press)
BOSTOCK, D. Plato's Phaedo (Oxford, Clarendon Press)
BOSTOCK, D. Plato's Theaetetus (Oxford, Clarendon Press)
BOSTOCK, D. Aristotle's Metaphysics: Books Z and H (Oxford, Clarendon Press).
BOSTOCK, D. Introduction and notes in Aristotle's Aristotle’s Physics (translated by Robin Waterfield) (Oxford, Oxford University Press)
BOSTOCK, D. Intermediate Logic (Oxford, Clarendon Press)
BOSTOCK, D. Aristotle's Ethics (New York, Oxford University Press)
BOSTOCK, D. On Motivating Higher-Order Logic, in Studies in the Philosophy of Logic and Knowledge (ed. Baldwin & Smiley, Oxford University Press)
BOSTOCK, D. The Interpretation of Plato’s Crito, in Plato’s Euthyphro, Apology, and Crito (ed. Kamtekar; Bowman & Littlefield).
BOSTOCK, D. Space, Time, Matter, and Form: Essays on Aristotle's Physics (Oxford, Clarendon Press)
BOSTOCK, D. Philosophy of Mathematics: An Introduction (Chichester, Wiley-Blackwell). 
BOSTOCK, D. Aristotle’s Philosophy of Mathematics, in The Oxford Handbook of Aristotle (ed. Shields; Oxford, Oxford University Press)
BOSTOCK, D. Russell's Logical Atomism (Oxford, Oxford University Press)


Bostock married Jenny Lawton.
He married, secondly, Rosanne, the daughter of Colonel Atherton George ffolliott Powell.

References

  1. ^ Roland Bostock, David Bostock (1936)Genealogy of the Bostock and Bostwick Families 
  2. ^ Supplement to the London Gazette, 28 August, 1956, at page 4911
  3. ^ Michael Race, Rosanne Bostock, The Oxford Times, 6 April 2017
  4. ^ "In Memoriam: David Bostock". University of Oxford Faculty of Philosophy. Retrieved 4 November 2019.

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