Grice's Soul

by J. L. Speranza
for the Grice Club.

There is an online reference to "The soul of Anthony Quinton". The reference is to his essay, "The Soul", which is really on 'personal identity'. Quinton, perhaps unlike Grice, was a materialist, so it is intriguing that he would like to have titled his essay 'The soul'. Grice preferred to try to analyse "I" statements in terms of 'mnemonic states'. When Perry edited his "Personal Identity", the first three essays were: by Locke (the locus classicus), by Quinton, and by Grice. The order chosen was NOT chronological, since Grice's paper antedated Quinton's for quite a number of years.

It would be good to have an account of the ways in which Quinton's thing is supposed to supersede Grice's.