H. P. Grice

1913-1988 · British · Philosophy of Language, Philosophy of Mind, Metaphysics, Ethics

It might be held that the *ultimate* subject of all philosophy is ourselves.

Paul Grice spent three decades at Oxford, central to J. L. Austin's Saturday Morning discussions, before moving to Berkeley in 1967. A perfectionist who hated publishing, his ideas circulated as mimeographed notes. His footprint is enormous; his name little-known outside philosophy.

Topics H. P. Grice addresses

• non-natural meaning (meaning_NN)
• speaker meaning
• the iterated-intention analysis of meaning
• conversational implicature
• conventional implicature
• particularised conversational implicature
• generalised conversational implicature
• the Cooperative Principle
• the maxim of Quantity
• the maxim of Quality
• the maxim of Relation
• the maxim of Manner
• what is said
• the said/implicated distinction
• flouting and exploitation
• Modified Occam's Razor
• the semantics-pragmatics distinction
• the Causal Theory of Perception
• sense data as a technical term
• the doubt-or-denial condition
• creature-construction
• the transcendental argument for value
• practical reason
• J-acceptance and V-acceptance

Converse with H. P. Grice on Symposium. Every reply is grounded in H. P. Grice's own writing and cites the page it came from. The corpus is public-domain text.