H. P. Grice
St. John's, Oxford
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The H. P. Grice Papers
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.
Container List
Series I
The Correspondence of H. P. Grice
Physical Description:
Carton 1 (folders 1-15)
Carton 1 (folders 1-15)
The correspondence of H. P. Grice is arranged alphabetically according to surname, followed by correspondence of a more general kind.
Scope and Content
Note
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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.
Carton 1, Folder 1
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.
Carton 1, Folder 15
Various published papers on Grice 1968
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Series II
Selected publications
Physical Description: Carton 1 (folders 16-31), Cartons 2-4
The essays are arranged chronologically.
However, for those "n. d." publications, the order is alphabetical by keyword and/or title.
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."
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."
Carton 1, Folder 16
"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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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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Carton 1, Folders 17-18
"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.
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.
Carton 1, Folder 19
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!"
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!"
Carton 1, Folder 20
"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.
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 the 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."
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 the 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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William James Lectures 1967
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"Utterer's Meaning, Sentence-Meaning, and Word-Meaning" 1968
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"Utterer's Meaning and Intentions" 1969
Carton 1, Folder 31
"Vacuous Names" 1969
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"Vacuous Names" 1969
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Urbana Lectures 1970-1971
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Urbana Lectures - Lecture IX 1970-1971
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"Intention and Uncertainty" Circa 1971
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"Probability, Desirability, and Mood Operators" 1971-1973
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Carus Lectures I-III 1973
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Carus Lectures 1986
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"Reply to Davidson on 'Intending'" 1974
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"Method in Philosophical Psychology" 1974
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"Two Chapters on Incontinence" with Judith Baker Circa 1976
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"Further Notes on Logic and Conversation" Circa 1977
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"Presupposition and Conversational Implicature" 1977-1981
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"Freedom and Morality in Kant's Foundations" 1978
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John Locke Lectures "Aspects of Reason" 1979
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Actions and Events Circa 1985
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Postwar Oxford Philosophy 1986
Carton 3, Folders 7-21
"Studies in the Way of Words" 1986-1989
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"Retrospective Foreword" 1987
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"Retrospective Epilogue" 1987
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"Retrospective Epilogue" 1987
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"Retrospective Epilogue and Foreword" 1987
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"Metaphysics, Philosophical Eschatology, and Plato's Republic" 1988
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Grice Reprints 1953-1986
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"Aristotle on Being and Good" Undated
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"Aristotle on the Multiplicity of Being" Undated
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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
Carton 4, Folder 26
"Reply to Anscombe" Undated
Carton 4, Folders 27-30
"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
Carton 5, Folders 10-13
Kant Lectures 1977
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Philosophy 290 1977-1978
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"Kant's Ethics," Volume III 1978
Carton 5, Folder 18
Knowledge and Belief Seminar 1979-1980
Carton 5, Folders 19-21
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
Carton 5, Folder 25
Seminar on Freedom Undated
Carton 5, Folder 26
Grice Lectures Undated
Carton 5, Folders 27-28
Seminar on Kant's Ethics Undated
Carton 5, Folder 29
"The Criteria of Intelligence" Lectures II-IV Undated
Carton 5, Folder 30
UC Berkeley, Modest Mentalism Undated
Carton 5, Folder 31
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.
Carton 6, Folder 4
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
Carton 6, Folder 8
Conferences - APA Discussion - Randall Parker's Transcription of Tapes 1983-1989
Carton 6, Folder 9
Unity of Science and Teleology "Hands Across the Bay," and Beanfest 1985
Carton 6, Folder 10
Beanfest - Transcripts and Audio Cassettes 1985
Carton 6, Folder 11
Group Universals 1987
Carton 6, Folder 12
Group Universals - Partial Working Copy 1987
Carton 10
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
Carton 6, Folder 29
"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
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Grammar and Semantics with Richard Warner Undated
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Happiness, Discipline, and Implicatives Undated
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Notes on Hume 1975
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Hume's Account on Personal Identity Notes Undated
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Identity Notes with George Myro 1973
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"Ifs and Cans" Undated
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Irony, Stress, and Truth Undated
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Notes on Kant 1981-1982
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Kant's Ethics 1982
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Kant, Midsentences, Freedom Undated
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Language and Reference Circa 1966
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Language Semantics Undated
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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
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Metaphysics and Ill-Will Undated
Carton 7, Folder 29
Metaphysics and Theorizing Undated
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Method and Myth Notes Undated
Carton 7, Folder 31
Mills Induction Undated
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Miscellaneous on Actions and Events Undated
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Miscellaneous - Judith Baker Undated
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Miscellaneous - Metaph Notes 1987-1988
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Miscellaneous - Oxford Philosophy Undated
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Miscellaneous Philosophy Notes 1981-1985
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Miscellaneous Philosophy Topics Undated
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Modality, Desirability, and Probability Undated
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Nicomachean Ethics and Aristotle Ethics 1975-1976
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Objectivity and Value Undated
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Objective Value, Rational Motivation Circa 1978
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Oddents - Urbane and Not Urbane Undated
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Vision, Taste, and other Perception Papers Undated
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Papers on Perception Undated
Carton 8, Folder 24
Perception Notes Undated
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Notes on Perception with Richard Warner 1988
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"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
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Pirots and Obbles Undated
Carton 8, Folders 32-33
Methodology - Pirots Notes Undated
Carton 9, Folder 1
Practical Reason Undated
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"Preliminary Valediction" 1985
Carton 9, Folder 3
Presupposition and Implicative Circa 1979
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Probability and Life Undated
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Rationality and Trust notes Undated
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Reasons 1966
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Reflections on Morals Circa 1980
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Russell and Heterologicality Undated
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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
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"Significance of the Middle Book's Aristotle's Metaphysics" by Alan Code Undated
Carton 9, Folder 14
Social Justice Undated
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"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
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Various work on Trust, Metaphysics, Value, etc/ with Judith Baker Undated
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Universals 1987
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Universals with Michael Friedman 1987
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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
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