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The Grice Companion
Notes for the Carnap/Grice Conversation
By J.L. Speranza
EditedbyRogerBishopJones
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Contents
1 Introduction 1
2 Grice Biography 3
2.1 A Chronology . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3
2.2 Griceland . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5
2.3 Religion and Morality . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6
2.4 Influences . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6
2.5 Carnap in London . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7
2.6 Aristotle . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7
2.7 The Wars . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7
2.8 After the War . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8
2.9 The Oxford Circle . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8
2.10 System G . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9
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2.11 Metaphysics . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10
How formal can we get . . . . . . . . . 10
Dogmatism . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11
2.12 Semantics for System G . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11
2.13 Griceland and Carnapcopia Galore . . . . . . . . . . 12
2.13.1 Dialogue . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12
3 Notes on Grice and Others 15
3.1 Frege . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15
3.2 Hardie . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 16
3.3 Hempel and Reichenbach . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 16
3.4 Kant . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 17
3.5 Quine and Morris . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 17
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3.6 Russell . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 18
3.7 Tarski . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 20
3.8 White . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 21
3.9 Wittgenstein . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 21
4 Topics 23
4.1 Formal v. Natural Languages . . . . . . . . . . . . . 23
4.1.1 USA Good for Logic . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 24
4.2 Metaphysics . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 24
4.3 Betes Noires . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 25
4.3.1 phenomenalism . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 25
4.3.2 inductivism . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 25
4.3.3 Diagogism . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 26
4.3.4 Carnap . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 27
4.3.5 Secularism . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 27
4.3.6 Phenomenalism . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 28
4.3.7 Diagogism . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 28
4.3.8 Phenomenalism . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 29
4.3.9 Inductivism . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 29
4.3.10 Empiricism . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 29
4.3.11 Extensionalism . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 30
4.3.12 Functionalism . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 33
4.3.13 Materialism . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 34
4.3.14 Mechanism . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 34
4.3.15 Physicalism . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 35
4.4 Pirot Talk . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 36
4.5 Carnucopia . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 37
4.6 Dialogue . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 41
4.7 technical . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 42
4.7.1 Greeks . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 43
4.7.2 intuitive approach . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 44
4.7.3 radical approach . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 45
4.7.4 Clarification . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 47
4.8 Beyond the Pirot talk . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 47
4.8.1 Un-Carnapian Grice . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 48
5 The City of Eternal Truth 51
5.1 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 51
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5.1.1 Inside The City . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 53
6 Conceptual Maps 61
6.1 Carnap - Grice . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 61
Bibliography 63
Index 63
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Chapter 1
Introduction
J. L. Speranza is an Italian born in the pampas who has dedicated
his life so far to Gricing this and that. He holds (in the wall of his
room) a doctorate [Spe95] from the University of Buenos Aires on
Grice–“PragmaticaGriceana”. (This,heregrets,whilerecognised
by Western Educational Services alright – has been translated as
“GrecianPragmatics”–buthedon’t(sic)mind. Hehaswrittenex-
tensively,butmorerecently,spokenextensivelyonmattersGricean
at the Grice Club which he created just to annoy Dan Sperber.
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2 CHAPTER 1. INTRODUCTION
Chapter 2
Grice Biography
2.1 A Chronology
H. P. Grice, 1913-1988. Fellow of St. John’s, Oxford. Tutorial
Fellow in Philosophy, and University Lecturer, St. John’s, Oxford.
FBA 1966.
Thirties
1938 Negation. Unpublication. ArchivalmaterialintheGriceCol-
lection. MSS BANC 90/135c.
Forties
1941 Personal identity. Mind.
1948 Meaning. repr. in WoW.
Fifties
Sixties
1961 Causal theory of perception. Repr. in WoW
1962 Some remarks about the senses, in R. J. Butler, ”Analytic
Philosophy”, Oxford: Blackwell, repr. in WoW.
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4 CHAPTER 2. GRICE BIOGRAPHY
1967 The William James Lectures. Manuscript, BANC 90/135c.
Repr. WoW, as Part I, ”Logic and Conversation”.
1968 Utterer’smeaning,sentencemeaningandwordmeaning. Foun-
dationsofLanguage. Originallyfrom1967handwrittenmimeo.
Repr. WoW as Essay 6.
1969 Utterer’smeaningandintentions. PhilosophicalReview. From
original 1967 manuscript. Repr in WoW as Essay 5.
1969b Vacuous names. in Davidson/Hintikka, Words and objec-
tions: essays on the work of W. V. O. Quine.
Seventies
1971 Intentionanduncertainty. ProceedingsoftheBritishAcademy
and Clarendon Press.
1975 Methodinphilosophicalpsychology. ProceedingsoftheAmer-
ican Philosophical Association. Repr. as Appendix I to
Gri1991.
1975 LogicandConversation. OriginallyseondWilliamJameslec-
ture
1967 in Davidson/Harman, Logic and Grammar. Encino, Calif:
Dickinson, and in Cole/Morgan, Syntax and Semantics, vol-
ume 3: Speech acts. London: Academic Press. Repr. as
Essay 2 in WoW.
1978 Further notes on logic and conversation. Originally third
William James Lecture 1967. in P. Cole, Syntax and Seman-
tics, vol 9: Pragmatics. London: Academic Press. Repr. as
Essay 3 in WoW.
Eighties
1981 Presupposition and conversational implicature. (Dated 1970
in WoW), in Cole, Radical Pragmatics. Academic Press.
Repr. as Essay 17 in WoW.