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Tuesday, April 27, 2010

Why the Dretske-Grice approach should be redubbed the "Grice-Dretske" approach

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Well, for the simple reason that Grice said it beofore!

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Some hits below for the infamously labelled "Dretske-Grice" approach. (Note that it's best to refer to Dretske as Wisconsin Semantics and have Grice as having influential with it, via Stampe).

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Apparently, the coiner is L. Floridi who credits me in his entry on information for the Stanford encyclopaedia (vis a vis Grice's notes on 'genuine info' in Strand 6 of WoW):

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[PDF] Informational Semantics as a Third Alternative?
P Allo
"This is in line with what Floridi [2005] calls the Dretske-Grice approach to semantic information."
homepages.vub.ac.be/~pallo/papers/InfoSem.pdf

I have discussed with Stampe the trickier issues of the earliest references to 'causation' as from even Grice 1948 -- his playing with Stevenson's 'causal' approaches, e.g. -- and we have enjoyed our conversation!

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