Grice Lecture in Milwaukee -- CANCELLED

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We regret to announce

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Grice, perhaps unlike Carnap and a zillion others, thougt that Kant was right: there _is_ practical reason. In the Immanuel Kant Memorial Lectures at Stanford Grice proposed the following proof:


"A man is invited by his mother
to visit her in Milwaukee next week."

"Now:
His firm, in Redwood City, is about
to do its accounts, and he is head
accountant."

"Now also: he is suddenly reminded
that his wife, Matilda, has just
had a bad car accident and is
lying in hospital in Boise, Idaho,
with two broken legs and internal
injuries".

"According to Carnap, and others", the man is "at loss". "But he isn't, you know". For there's _reason_ to what he has to do."

"To wit", Grice notes, what the man should do is _follow the voice of reason_."

"To wit"

"1. It is acceptable,
_given_ that

I.
a. Let me give my mother
pleasure

b. Get ready the firm's accounts
and

c. Sustain Matilda.

and that

II. a. I am my mother's
favourite son and

b. I'm also head accountant
at accounting time

c. I'm Matilda's husband,
with Matilday lying in Boise, Idaho.

_that_ let me

III.

a. spend next week in Boise, Idaho,

b. telephone my mother and

c. My office daily."

(Gr01:83).

Etc.