Grice on Foot

née Philippa Ruth Bosanquet, in Durhamshire, England, 1920. † 2010.

Refs:
http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2010/oct/05/philippa-foot-obituary
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/obituaries/8044589/Professor-Philippa-Foot.h
Grice -- Conception of Value -- discussion of her views in ethics.

From amazon:
Natural Goodness by Philippa Foot (Paperback - Dec 4, 2003)
Virtues and Vices: And Other Essays in Moral Philosophy by Philippa Foot (Paperback - Feb 6, 2003)
Theories of Ethics (Oxford Readings in Philosophy) by Philippa Foot (Paperback - Nov 4, 1976)
Moral Dilemmas: and other topics in moral philosophy by Philippa Foot (Paperback - Mar 27, 2003)
Moral relativism (Lindley lecture, University of Kansas) by Philippa Foot (Unknown Binding - 1979)

Worth discussing.
R. I. P.
Speranza

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Example to discuss from her obituaries:

i. That tree has good roots.
ii. That tree has bad roots.

iii. That person, a good person, performs good deeds.
etc.

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Grice discusses Foot at large in his "Conception of Value" -- the 'moral army': an army of volunteers or draftees? Grice was especially interested in Foot's idea of morality as a 'system of hypothetical imperatives'. Grice sided more with Hare, and G. J. Warnock, than with Foot's colleague Mary Warnock and others, but it's all worth discussing.

Grice would know of Foot from her long days at Somerville. She would also visit UC/Berkeley -- so more occasion for chit chat.

Admirable lady.

R. I. P.