Nicholas Shea on H. P. Grice

"Although some have attempted to derive the content of utterances directly from the behavioural dispositions of speakers and listeners (Millikan 2004; ch. 8; Skyrms 2010), this paper will assume that linguistic content depends at least in part on the thoughts of those communicating (Grice 1957; Lewis 1969). If so, we cannot start with public language sentences. Attempts to naturalise intentionality of all kinds will depend upon being able to naturalise mental content."