H. P. Grice: Conversational Implicata and Conversation As Rational Co-Operation

H. P. Grice

St. John's, Oxford

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The H. P. Grice Papers

Extent: Number of containers: 10 cartons Linear feet: 12.5.

The H. P. Grice Papers consist of the publications, unpublications, correspondence by English philosopher H. P. Grice, during his years at Corpus Christi, Merton and St. John's, Oxford, and beyond.

Also included are extensive notes and research Grice conducts on theories of semantics and theories of reason, trust, and value. 

Grice's most popular lectures, including The John Locke Lectures at Oxford, The William James Lectures at Harvrd, The Paul Carus Lectures, Urbana lectures, and The Immanuel Kant Lectures at Stanford are all documented as drafts and finalised forms of transcripts, and audio files within the collection.

H. P. Grice's list of contributions during his philosophical career include The William James Lectures at Harvard, "Utterer's Meaning, Sentence-Meaning, and Word-Meaning," The Urbana Lectures," "Logic and Conversation," The Immanuel Kant Lectures at Stanford, The John Locke Lectures at Oxfford, and The Carus Lectures.

Grice's publications and unpublications are compilations of his extensive research performed in the philosophy of language, metaphysics, Aristotelian philosophy, philosophical psychology, and ethics. 

Grice is also attributed with coining the word "implicature" to describe a dimension of utterer's meaning, and for defining his own paradox known as "Grice's paradox," introduced in Grice's "Studies in the Way of Words," a compilation of his essays.

Included in the H. P. Grice collection is Grice's research on Aristotelian philosophy with J. Baker and metaphysics with G. Myro, his other research focusing on philosopical psychology, with such subjects as perception and intention. 

Also included is documentation of Grice's involvement with The Aristotelian Socieety, The British Academy, and The American Philosophical  Association. 

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Container List

Series I 

The Correspondence of H. P. Grice

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The correspondence of H. P. Grice is arranged alphabetically according to surname, followed by correspondence of a more general kind. 

Scope and Content 

Note

Series I, The Correspondence of H. P. Grice includes correspondence with philosophers such as J. Baker, G. P. Bealer, R. O. Warner, and R. Wyatt, addressing various forms of his research on philosophy.

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Correspondenc with J. F. Bennett, of Oxford.

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Correspondence with J. Baker

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Correspondence with G. P. Bealer

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Correspondence with A. D. Code

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Correspondence with P. Suppes

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Correspondence with R. O. Warner, 

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Correspondence with R. Wyatt

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Correspondence: Other. 

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Correspondence: Other. 

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Various published papers on Grice 1968

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Series II

Selected publications 

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The essays are arranged chronologically.

However, for those "n. d." publications, the order is alphabetical by keyword and/or title.

Scope and Content Note

Series II includes published papers, but also drafts and notes that accompany their publication of the essays, unpublished essays, along with their drafts and/or notes, and published transcripts of his various lectures (William James, Urbana, Carus, John Locke). 

Also included is Grice's volume "Studies in the Way of Words" which is compilation of essays, including, "Meaning," "Utterer's Meaning," and "Logic and Conversation."

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"Meaning"
The Oxford Philosophical Society.
AUTHORS CITED:
STEVENSON, C. L. 

"Meaning" developed out of an interest by H. P. Grice on the philosophy of C. S. Peirce. In his essays on Peirce, Grice quotes from many other authors, including, besides Peirce, Ogden and Richards, and Ewing. 

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"Meaning Revisited" 

This is the title H. P. Grice chose for a contribution to a symposium at Brighton organised by N. V. Smith. 

It comprises three sections. 

Grice is concerned with the application of his "M. O. R.," or "Modified Occam's Razor" to the lexeme, "mean."

The also explores an 'evolutionary' model of creature construction reaching a stage of non-iconic representation.

Finally, Grice attempts to construct 'meaning' as a 'value-paradeigmatic' notion.

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Oxford Philosophy - Linguistic Botanising 

By "Oxford Philosophy," H. P. Grice notably refers to J. L. Austin's Play Group, of which he was a member. 

This, to some, infamous, playgroup, met on Saturday mornings at different venues at Oxford, including Grice's own St. John's -- apparently, Austin's favourite venue.

Austin regarded himself and his 'kindergarten' as 'linguistic' or 'language' *botanists*.

The idea was to list various 'ordinary' uses of this or that 'philosophical notion."

Austin: "They say philosophy is about language; well, then, let's botanise!"

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"Descartes on 'Clear and Distinct Perception'" 

H. P. Grice is interested in contesting A. J. Ayer and other Oxford philosophers on the topic of a criterion for 'certainty,' and choses Descartes's time-honoured criterion of 'clarity' and 'distinction,' as applied to perception. In the proceedings, Grice distinguishes between two 'kinds' of certainty apparently ignored by Descartes:

OBJECTIVE CERTAINTY:
It is certain that p.

SUBJECTIVE CERTAINTY:
I am certain that p.

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"Logic and Conversation" 

Moved by P. F. Strawson's treatment of the 'formal' devices in "Introduction to Logical Theory," Grice targets these, in their 'ordinary-discourse' counterparts.

Grice attempts to reconcile Strawson's observations with the idea that the 'formal' devices reproduce some sort of 'explicatum,' or 'explicitum,' as identified by Whitehead and Russell in "Principia Mathematica."

In the proceedings, Grice has to rely on some general features of discourse, or conversation as a rational co-operation.

The alleged divergence between the 'ordinary-language' operators and their 'formal' counterparts is explained in terms of the CONVERSATIONAL IMPLICATA, then. I.e. the content of the psychological attitude that the addressee A has to ascribe to the utterer U to account for any divergence between the formal device and its alleged 'ordinary-language' counterpart, while still assuming that U is engaged in a co-operative transaction.

Utterer and addressee are seen as caring for the mutual goals of conversation -- the exchange of information and the institution of decisions -- and judging that conversation will only be profitable (and thus reasonable and rational) if conducted under some form of principle of 'conversational helpfulness.' 

"The observation of a principle of  conversational helpfulness is reasonable (rational) along the following lines: anyone who cares about the goals that are central to conversation/communication (such as giving and receiving information, influencing and being influenced by others) must be expected to have an interest, given suitable circumstances, in participating in a conversation that will be profitable ONLY on the assumption that it is conducted in general accordance with a principle of conversational helpfulness."

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The William James Lectures 

Grice entitled the set as being "Logic and Conversation." That is the title, also, of the second lecture. Grice keeps those titles seeing that it was way the whole set of lectures were frequently cited, and that the second lecture had been published under that title in Davidson and Harman, "Logic and Grammar."

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"Utterer's Meaning, Sentence-Meaning, and Word-Meaning" 

This is the sixth William James lecture, as published in "The Foundations of Language."

As it happens, it became a popular lecture, seeing that J. R. Searle selected this from the whole set for his Oxford reading in philosophy, "The philosophy of language."

It is also the essay cited by Chomsky in his influential John Locke lectures.

Chomsky takes Grice to be a 'behaviourist,' even along Skinner's lines, which provoked a reply by Suppes, later reprinted in P. G. R. I. C. E., or Philosophical Grounds of Rationality: Intentions, Categories, Ends.

(In The New World, the "H. P." was often given in a more "simplified" form.)

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"Utterer's Meaning and Intentions" 

This is the fifth William James lecture. Grice was careful enough to submit it to "The Philosophical Review," since it is a strictly philosophical development of the views expressed in "Meaning" which Strawson had submitted on Grice's behalf to the same "Review" and which had had a series of responses by various philosophers 

Among these philosophers is Strawson himself in "Intention and convention in the the theory of speech acts," also in "The Philosophical Review."

Grice quotes from very many other philosophers in this essay, including:

J. O. Urmson
D. W. Stampe
S. R. Schiffer
J. R. Searle


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"Vacuous Names" 

This is an essay commissioned by Donald Davison and Jaako Hintikka for "Words and objects: essays in the work of W. V. Quine" for Reidel.

"Words and objects" had appeared (without Grice's contribution) as a special issue of "Synthese." Grice's contribution, along with Quine's "Reply to H. P. Grice," appeared only in the reprint of that special issue for Reidel in Dordrecht. 

Grice cites from various philosophers (and logicians -- this was the time when logic was starting to be taught OUTSIDE philosophy departments, or 'sub-faculties'), such as

G. Myro
B. Mates
K. S. Donnellan
P. F. Strawson

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"Vacuous Names" 

Grice takes the opportunity, in his tribute to Quine, to introduce one of two of his syntactical devices to allow for conversational implicata to be given maximal scope.

The device in "Vacuous Names" is a subscription device to indicate the ordering of introduction of this or that operation.

Grice wants to give room for utterances of a special 'existential' kind be deemed rational/reasonable, provided the principle of conversational helfpulness is thought of by the addressee to be followed by the utterer.

"Someone isn't attending the party organised by the Merseyside Geographical Society."

"That is Marmaduke Bloggs, who climbed Mt. Everest on hands and knees."

"But who, as it happened, turned out to be an invention of the journalists at The Merseyside Newsletter."

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Urbana Lectures 

Grice continues with the elaboration of a formal calculus. He originally baptised it "System Q" in honour of Quine. 

At a later stage, Myro will re-name it "System G," in a special version, "System GHP," a highly powerful/hopefully plausible version of System G," "in gratitude to Grice."

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Urbana Lectures (continued).

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"Intention and Uncertainty" 

This is the Henriette Herz British Academy lecture, and as such published in The Proceedings of the British Academy.

Grice calls himself a neo-Prichardian (after the Oxford philosopher) and cares to quote from a few other philosophers -- some of whom he was not necessarily associated with: such as Kenny and Anscombe, and some of whom he was, notably D. F. Pears.

Grice quotes Pears as a philosopher he found especially congenial to explore areas in what both called 'philosophical psychology,' notably the tricky use of 'intending' as made by a few philosophers even in their own circle (such as Hampshire and Hart in "Intention, decision, and certainty."

The title of Grice's lecture is meant to provoke those philosophers who were too ready to bring in 'certainty' in an area that requires deep philosophical exploration. 

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"Probability, Desirability, and Mode Operators" 

Grice had been freely using the very English 'mood' until J. M. E Moravsik, of all people, corrected him:

"What you mean ain't a 'mood.'"

"I shall call it 'mode' just to please you, J. M. E."

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The Paul Carus Lectures on the conception of value.

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The Paul Carus Lectures on the conception of value.

Grice was undecided as to what his Paul Carus lectures were be on.

He had explored 'meaning' under its 'value' "optimality" guise in "Meaning revisited."

Grice thought that introducing 'value-paradeigmatic' notions would allow him to respond in a more apt way to what some critics were raising as a possible 'vicious circle' in his approach to 'semantic' and 'psychological' notions.

The Carus lectures are then dedicated to the 'construction,' alla Hume, of 'value-paradeigmatic' notions, and value itself.

Grice starts by quoting Austin and J. L. Mackie, of Oxford. 

The lectures are intended to a general audience, provided it is a *philosophical* general audience!

Most of the second lecture is Grice's subtle exploration of Kant's categorical imperative, with which he had struggled in the last John Locke lecture on aspects of reasoning -- notably the 'reduction' of the categorical imperative to this or that 'counsel of prudence' with an implicated protasis to the effect that the agent is aiming at 'eudaimonia.'

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"Reply to Davidson on 'Intending'"

Davidson, not being Oxonian, was perhaps not acquainted with Grice's polemics at Oxford with Hart and Hampshire (where Grice sided with Pears, rather).

Grice and Pears hold a 'minimalist' approach to 'intending.'

On the other hand, Davidson makes what Grice sees as 'the same mistake' again of BUILDING 'certainty' into the concept.

Grice finds that to apply the idea of a conversational IMPLICATUM at this point is 'too social to be true.'

Rather, Grice prefers to coin the conversational DISIMPLICATUM:

Marmaduke Bloggs intends to climb Mt Everest on hands and knees.

The utterance above, if merely reporting what Bloggs thinks, may involve a 'loose' use of "intends."

The certainty on the agent's part on the success of his enterprise is thus cast with doubt.

Davidson was claiming that the agent's belief in the probability of the object of the agent's intention was a mere conversational IMPLICATUM on the utterer's part.

Grice responds that the ascription of such a belief is an ENTAILMENT of a strict use of 'intend,' even if, in cases where the utterer aims at a conversational DISIMPLICATUM, it can be 'dropped.' 

The addressee will still regard the utterer as abiding by the principle of conversational helpfulness.

Keywords: INTENDING, BELIEVING. 

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"Method in Philosophical Psychology: from the banal to the bizarre"

Grice wasn't sure what his presidential address to the American Philosophical Association will be about.

He chose "the banal" (i.e. the 'ordinary-language' counterpart of something like a 'need' we ascribe to a squirrel to gobble nuts) and the 'bizarre': the philosopher's construction of 'need' and other 'psychological,' now theoretical terms.

In the proceedings, Grice creates the discipline of 'pirotology.'

He cares to mention very many philosophers: Aristotle, D. K. Lewis, G. Myro, L. Witters, F. R. Ramsey, G. Ryle, and a few others!

The essay became popular when, of all people, Ned Block, cited it as a programme in 'functionalism,' which it is!

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"Two Chapters on Incontinence" 

Grice prefers 'akrasia,' but he is happy to use Cicero's translation of this. 

For Grice, 'akrasia' has to be accounted for by a theory of rationality from the start.

Grice is interested in both the common-or-garden 'boulomaic' version of akrasia, involving the volitive 'soul,' and 'alethic' or doxastic 'akrasia,' involing the judicative soul proper.

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"Further Notes on Logic and Conversation" 

This is the third William James lecture at Harvard. 

It is particularly useful for Grice's introduction of his 'razor,' "M. O. R.," or "Modified Occam's Razor," jocularly expressed by Grice as:

"Senses are not to be multiplied beyond necessity."

An Englishing of the Ockham's Latinate:

"Entia non sunt multiplicanda praeter necessitatem."

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"Presupposition and Conversational Implicature" 


Grice thought, and rightly, too, that if his notion of the conversational implicatum was to gain Oxonian currency, it should supersede Strawson's idea of the 'prae-suppositum.'

Strawson, in his attack to Russell, had been playing with Quine's idea of a 'truth-value gap.'

Grice shows that neither the metaphysical concoction of a truth-value gap nor the philosophical tool of the 'prae-suppositum' is needed:

"The king of France is bald"

ENTAILS 'There is a king of France."

"The king of France ain't bald."

on the other hand, merely IMPLICATES it, as a perfectly adequate cancellation, abiding with the principle of conversational helpfulness" is in the offing:

"The king of France ain't bald. What made you think he is? For starters, he ain't real!"

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"Freedom and Morality in Kant's Foundations"

By "Foundations," Grice obviously means Kant's essay.

Grice preferred to quote Kant in English. The reason being that Grice was practising "ordinary-language" philosophy; and you cannot expect much 'linguistic botany' in a language other than your own!

Kant was not too 'ordinary' in his use of German, either!

The English translations that Grice used captured, in a way, all that Grice thought was worth capturing in Kant's philosophy. 

Kant was not your 'standard' philosopher in the programme Grice was familiar with: Lit. Hum. Oxon.

However, Kant was popular in The New World, where Grice lectured profusely. 

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John Locke Lectures "Aspects of Reason" 




It was slightly ironic that Grice had delivered these lectures as the Rationalist Kant lectures at Stanford.

He was honoured to be invited to Oxford. Officially, to be a John Locke lecture you have to be *visiting* Oxford.

While Grice was a fellow of St. John's, he was still most welcome to give his set of lectures on reasoning at the Sub-Faculty of Philosophy.

He quotes very many authors, including Locke! In his "proemium," Grice notes that while he was rejected the Locke scholarship back in the day, he was extremely happy to be under Locke's aegis now!

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Actions and Events 

Davidson had published some stuff on 'actions' and 'events,' or 'events and actions,' actually. Davidson's point was that 

p.q

It is raining, and it is pouring.

denotes EVENTS. But "Smith went fishing" denotes an 'action,' which is a kind of 'event.'

However, Davidson is fighting against your intuition, if you are a follower of Whitehead and Russell, to symbolise the "Smith" sentence as:

Fs

where 's' stands for Smith and F for 'fishing.'

The logical form of 'event' reports and 'action' reports seems to be slightly more complicated. Davidson's point especially involved 'adverbs':

The horse runs fast
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Therefore, the horse runs

Grice explores all these topics and submits the thing to "The Pacific Philosophical Quarterly."

He quotes vary many philosophers, not just Davidson, including: Reichenbach, Robinson, and Kant. 


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Postwar Oxford Philosophy

By "post-war Oxford philosophy," Grice meant the period he was interested in.

While he had been at Corpus, Merton, and St. John's in the pre-war days, for some reason, he felt that he had made history in the post-war period.

The historical reason Grice gives is understandable enough.

In the pre-war days, Grice was the good student and the new fellow of St. John's -- the other one was Mabbott.

But he had not been able to engage in philosophical discussion much, other than with other tutees of Hardie.

AFTER the war, Grice joins Austin's "Saturday mornings."

Indeed, for Grice, 'post-war' means "all philosophy after the war," since he never abandoned the methods he developed under Austin, which were pretty congenial to the ones he had himself displayed in the pre-war days, in essays like "Negation" and "Personal Identity."

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"Studies in the Way of Words" 

This is the title Grice eventually chooses for his compilation of essays. It is a tribute to Locke.

The 'studies' are organised in two Parts. Part I is "Logic and Conversation" and Part II in "Semantics and Metaphysics."

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"Retrospective Foreword" 

Grice drops a few words as a 'foreword,' explaining the ordering of essays. He mentions that he hesitated to follow Bennett's suggestion to order the essays chronologically.

Rather, he chose to just publish the whole set of seven William James lectures as Part I.

Part II is organised more or less thematically, though. 

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"Retrospective Epilogue" 

This is a long exploration by Grice on the many 'strands' he identifies in his own philosophy.

'Strand' should not mislead us.

For Grice, philosophy, like virtue, is entire.

All the strands therefore show some 'latitudinal,' and we hope, 'longitudinal' unity.

By these two types of 'unity,' Grice means the obvious idea that all sub-disciplines of philosophy (philosophy of language, philosophy of perception, philosophical psychology, etc.) interact, and that a historical regard for one's predecessors is a must.

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"Retrospective Epilogue" 

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"Retrospective Epilogue and Foreword" 

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"Metaphysics, Philosophical Eschatology, and Plato's Republic" 

Grice has one specific essay on Aristotle (published in The Pacific Philosophical Quarterly). So he thought Plato merited his own essay, too.

Grice is concerned with a neo-Socratic (versus neo-Thrasymachean) account of 'moral' justice as conceptually prior to 'legal' justice.

In the proceeding, he creates 'philosophical eschatology' as the OTHER branch to metaphysics (along with ontology). 

To say that 'just' crosses a categorial barrier (from the moral to the legal) is to utter a metaphysical, strictly eschatological, pronouncement. 

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Grice Reprints 

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"Aristotle on Being and Good" 

Grice will explore Aristotle on 'being' in explorations with A. D. Code. 

Grice comes up with 'izzing' and 'hazzing' as the two counterparts to Aristotle's views on, respectively, essential and non-essential predication.

Grice's views on Aristotle on 'the good' connect with Grice's Aristotelian idea of 'eudaimonia,' that he explores elsewhere. 

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"Aristotle on the Multiplicity of Being" 

A thorough discussion of Owens's treatment of Aristotle as leading us to the 'snares' of ontology.

Grice distinguishes between 'izzing' and 'hazzing,' which he thinks help in clarifying, 'more axiomatico,' what Aristotle is getting at with his remarks on 'essential' versus 'non-essential' predication.

Surely, for Grice, being should not be multiplied beyond necessity (but izzing and hazzing ARE already multiplied). 

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"Aristotle: Pleasure" Undated

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"Conversational Implicative" Undated

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"Negation I" Undated

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"Negation II" Undated

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"Personal Identity" (including notes on Hume) Undated

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"Philosopher's Paradoxes" Undated

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"A Philosopher's Prospectus" Undated

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"Philosophy and Ordinary Language" Undated

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Some Reflections about Ends and Happiness Undated

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Reflections on Morals with Judith Baker Undated

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"Reply to Anscombe" Undated

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"Reply to Richards" Undated

Series 3 Teaching Materials 1964-1983

Physical Description: Carton 5, Carton 6 (folders 1-3)

Arrangement

Arranged chronologically; alphabetical for those teaching materials without dates.

Scope and Content Note

Includes seminars and lectures given during Grice's years as a Professor Emeritus at UC Berkeley.

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Student Notes on Grice's Seminar at Cornell 1964

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Grice Seminar 1969

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Philosophy 290-2 with Judith Baker 1992

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Philosophy 290-2 1993

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Seminar on Kant's Ethical Theory 1974-1977

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Seminar on "Aristotle Ethics" 1975-1996

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Philosophy 290, Kant Seminar with Judith Baker 1976-1977

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"Kant's Ethics," Volume II 1977

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Kant Lectures 1977

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Philosophy 290 1977-1978

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"Kant's Ethics," Volume III 1978

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Knowledge and Belief Seminar 1979-1980

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Seminar on Kant's Ethics, Volume V 1980-1982

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Philosophy 200. Grice and Myro 1982

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Notes on Kant 1982

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Metaphysics and the Language of Philosophy 1983

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Seminar on Freedom Undated

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Grice Lectures Undated

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Seminar on Kant's Ethics Undated

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"The Criteria of Intelligence" Lectures II-IV Undated

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UC Berkeley, Modest Mentalism Undated

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Topics for Pursuit, Zeno, Socrates Notes Undated

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Grice/Staal Seminar, Syntax, Semantics, and Phonetics Undated

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Grice/Staal, "That" Clause Undated

Series 4 Professional Associations 1971-1987

Physical Description: Carton 6 (folders 4-12), Carton 10

Arrangement

Arranged chronologically.

Scope and Content Note

Includes Kant's Stanford Lectures, various notes and audio tapes of Beanfest, Grice's fall 1987 group research on universals, and conferences and discussions concerning the American Psychological Association (APA). Also includes a carton of cassettes, magnetic recorder tapes, and cassette sets of four on professional talks with colleague George Myro on identities, metaphysics, and relatives and Grice's various seminars given at different institutions such as Stanford, University of California, Berkeley, and Seattle on his philosophical theories.

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APA Symposium - "Entailment" 1971

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Stanford - "Some Aspects of Reason," Kant 1977

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Conferences - Causality Colloquium At Stanford University Circa 1978

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Conferences - APA Discussion - Randall Parker's Transcription of Tapes 1983-1989

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Unity of Science and Teleology "Hands Across the Bay," and Beanfest 1985

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Beanfest - Transcripts and Audio Cassettes 1985

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Group Universals 1987

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Group Universals - Partial Working Copy 1987

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Audio Files of various lectures and conferences 1970-1986

Series 5 Subject Files 1951-1988

Physical Description: Carton 6 (folders 13-38), Cartons 7-9

Arrangement

Alphabetically

Scope and Content Note

Includes Reed Seminar notes, notes on ancient philosophers such as Aristotle, Descartes and their own philosophical theories, research and accompanying notes on other prominent philosophers such as Kant and Davidson, notes with colleagues Judith Baker, Alan Code, Michael Friedman, George Myro, Patrick Suppes, and Richard Warner, on various theories of reason, trust, language semantics, universals, and values.

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"The Analytic/Synthetic Division" 1983

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Aristotle and "Categories" Undated

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Aristotle's Ethics Undated

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Aristotle and Friendship Undated

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Aristotle and Friendship, Rationality, Trust, and Decency Undated

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Aristotle and Multiplicity Undated

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Bealer Notes Undated

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Berkeley Group Team Notes 1983

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Casual Theory Perception Undated

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Categories with Strawson Undated

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Categorical Imperatives 1981

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"The Logical Construction Theory of Personal Identity" Undated

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Davidson's "On Saying That" Undated

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Descartes Notes Undated

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"Grice on Denials of Indicative Conditionals" by Michael Sinton Circa 1971

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Dispositions and Intentions Notes Undated

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Dogmas of Empiricism Undated

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Emotions and Incontinence Undated

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Entailment and Paradoxes Undated

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Notes on Ethics with Judith Baker Undated

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North Carolina Ethics Notes Undated

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Festschrift and Warner Notes Circa 1981-1982

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"Finality" Notes with Alan Code Undated

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"Form, Type, and Implication" by Grice Undated

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Frege, Words and Sentences Notes Undated

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"Fundamental Principles of the Metaphysic of Ethics" by Kant Undated

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"Foundations of the Metaphysics of Morals" Undated

Carton 7, Folder 5

Grammar and Semantics with Richard Warner Undated

Carton 7, Folder 6

Happiness, Discipline, and Implicatives Undated

Carton 7, Folder 7

Notes on Hume 1975

Carton 7, Folders 8-9

Hume's Account on Personal Identity Notes Undated

Carton 7, Folder 10

Identity Notes with George Myro 1973

Carton 7, Folders 11-12

"Ifs and Cans" Undated

Carton 7, Folder 13

Irony, Stress, and Truth Undated

Carton 7, Folders 14-16

Notes on Kant 1981-1982

Carton 7, Folder 17

Kant's Ethics 1982

Carton 7, Folder 18

Kant, Midsentences, Freedom Undated

Carton 7, Folder 19

Language and Reference Circa 1966

Carton 7, Folder 20

Language Semantics Undated

Carton 7, Folders 21-22

John Locke Lecture Notes 1979

Carton 7, Folder 23

Logical Form and Action Sentences Undated

Carton 7, Folders 24-25

Meaning and Psychology Undated

Carton 7, Folders 26-27

Notes on Metaphysics 1988

Carton 7, Folder 28

Metaphysics and Ill-Will Undated

Carton 7, Folder 29

Metaphysics and Theorizing Undated

Carton 7, Folder 30

Method and Myth Notes Undated

Carton 7, Folder 31

Mills Induction Undated

Carton 7, Folder 32

Miscellaneous on Actions and Events Undated

Carton 8, Folder 1

Miscellaneous - Judith Baker Undated

Carton 8, Folder 2

Miscellaneous - Metaph Notes 1987-1988

Carton 8, Folder 3

Miscellaneous - Oxford Philosophy Undated

Carton 8, Folders 4-8

Miscellaneous Philosophy Notes 1981-1985

Carton 8, Folders 9-13

Miscellaneous Philosophy Topics Undated

Carton 8, Folders 14-15

Modality, Desirability, and Probability Undated

Carton 8, Folders 16-17

Nicomachean Ethics and Aristotle Ethics 1975-1976

Carton 8, Folder 18

Objectivity and Value Undated

Carton 8, Folder 19

Objective Value, Rational Motivation Circa 1978

Carton 8, Folder 20

Oddents - Urbane and Not Urbane Undated

Carton 8, Folders 21-22

Vision, Taste, and other Perception Papers Undated

Carton 8, Folder 23

Papers on Perception Undated

Carton 8, Folder 24

Perception Notes Undated

Carton 8, Folder 25

Notes on Perception with Richard Warner 1988

Carton 8, Folder 26

"Clear and Distinct Perception and Dreaming" Undated

Carton 8, Folder 27

"A Pint of Philosophy" by Alfred Brook Gordon, includes notes by Grice Circa 1951

Carton 8, Folder 28

"A Philosophy of Life" Notes, Happiness Notes Undated

Carton 8, Folder 29

"Lectures on Pierce" Undated

Carton 8, Folder 30

Basic Pirotese, Sentence Semantics and Syntax Circa 1970

Carton 8, Folder 31

Pirots and Obbles Undated

Carton 8, Folders 32-33

Methodology - Pirots Notes Undated

Carton 9, Folder 1

Practical Reason Undated

Carton 9, Folder 2

"Preliminary Valediction" 1985

Carton 9, Folder 3

Presupposition and Implicative Circa 1979

Carton 9, Folder 4

Probability and Life Undated

Carton 9, Folder 5

Rationality and Trust notes Undated

Carton 9, Folder 6

Reasons 1966

Carton 9, Folder 7

Reflections on Morals Circa 1980

Carton 9, Folder 8

Russell and Heterologicality Undated

Carton 9, Folder 9

Schiffer Undated

Carton 9, Folder 10

Semantics of Children's Language Undated

Carton 9, Folder 11

Sentence Semantics Undated

Carton 9, Folder 12

Sentence Semantics - Prepositional Complexes Undated

Carton 9, Folder 13

"Significance of the Middle Book's Aristotle's Metaphysics" by Alan Code Undated

Carton 9, Folder 14

Social Justice Undated

Carton 9, Folder 15

"Subjective" Conditions and Intentions Undated

Carton 9, Folder 16

Super-Relatives Undated

Carton 9, Folders 17-18

Syntax and Semantics Undated

Carton 9, Folder 19

The 'That" and "Why" - Metaphysics Notes 1986-1987

Carton 9, Folder 20

Various work on Trust, Metaphysics, Value, etc/ with Judith Baker Undated

Carton 9, Folder 21

Universals 1987

Carton 9, Folder 22

Universals with Michael Friedman 1987

Carton 9, Folder 23

Value, Metaphysics, and Teleology Undated

Carton 9, Folder 24

Values, Morals, Absolutes, and the Metaphysical Undated

Carton 9, Folders 25-27

Miscellaneous - Value Sub-systems, the "Kantian Problem" Undated

Carton 9, Folder 28

Values and Rationalism Undated

Carton 9, Folder 29

"Virtues and Vices" by Philippa Foot Undated

Carton 9, Folders 30-31

Wants and Needs 1974-1975