A. E. Duncan-Jones attends a Jowett Society meeting and inspires H. P. Grice to criticise 'emotivism'!

W.H.F Barnes studied fo r the Litera e Humaniores degree a t Oxford Universit y between 1930-32. Whilst seeking regular academic employment he was invite d t o address a meeting of the Jowett Society a t Oxford on November 8th , 1933. The paper which he gave, entitle d 'Is there a Realm of Values?', raised considerable interes t because i t expressed an emotivis t view of the nature of evaluative judgements. Amongst those present a t the meeting was Duncan-Jones who, i n hi s capacity as coedito r of the newly founded journa l Analysis, asked fa r a copy of the paper fo r the purposes of publication . The published extrac t was renamed 'A Suggestion about Value', and appeared i n the March 1934 volume. Although the extrac t was only 150 words long, i t nonetheless constitute d one of the firs t publicl y accessible statements of the emotivis t analysi s of ethics .