Tyler Burge reviews H. P. Grice's "WoW"

Burge:

"This volume, H. P. Grice's first book, includes the long-delayed publication of his enormously influential 1967 William James Lectures."

"But there is much, much more in this work."

"Grice himself has carefully arranged and framed the sequence of essays to emphasize not a certain set of ideas but a habit of mind, a style of philosophizing."

"Grice has, to be sure, provided philosophy with crucial ideas."

"Grice's account of utterer's meaning is the standard that others use to define their own minor divergences or future elaborations."

"Grice's discussion of a conversational implicatum has given philosophers an important tool for the investigation of all sorts of problems; it has also laid the foundation for a great deal of work by other philosophers about presupposition."

"Grice's metaphysical defense of absolute value is starting to be considered the beginning of a new phase in philosophy."