Grice directs Brit Council colloquium on "Contemporary British Philosophy"

by JLS
for the GC

The Note in Mind 1955 advertising for the colloquium directed by Grice is an interesting piece of history, I find. You see that Grice was already sort of becoming the representative of something "pretty British". By 1955, he had hardly published, although he was in his forties (that´s my man). "Defense of a dogma" was yet to come, as is "Meaning" and "Causal theory of perception". He had to his credit his excellent style and that little article in Mind for 1941. Note the description of the colloquium is going to be pretty much on everything! From metaphysics to epistemology -- and back. "No technical logical issues, please!", he adds, too. That´s my man! (Just teasing). By 1958 he was already giving international lectures on "Postwar Oxford philosophy" for Wellesey (of all places!) (That´s my man!).

I love the description of the colloquium: "participants will have a taste of the life and buildings" -- which reminds me: does the University of Oxford EXIST?