Studies in the way of words / Paul Grice.
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TextPublication details: Cambridge, Mass. : Harvard University Press, 1989.Description: viii, 394 p. ; 25 cmISBN: - 0674852702 (alk. paper)
- 9780674852709 (alk. paper)
- 0674852710 (pbk)
- 9780674852716 (pbk)
| Item type | Current library | Call number | Copy number | Status | Date due | Barcode | |
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| Standard Loan | Thurles Library Main Collection | 121.68 GRI (Browse shelf(Opens below)) | 1 | Available | R19461AKRC |
Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:
This volume, Grice's first hook, includes the long-delayed publication of his enormously influential 1967 William James Lectures. But there is much, much more in this work. Paul Grice himself has carefully arranged and framed the sequence of essays to emphasize not a certain set of ideas but a habit of mind, a style of philosophizing. Grice has, to be sure, provided philosophy with crucial ideas. His account of speaker-meaning is the standard that others use to define their own minor divergences or future elaborations. His discussion of conversational implicatures has given philosophers an important tool for the investigation of all sorts of problems; it has also laid the foundation for a great deal of work by other philosophers and linguists about presupposition. His metaphysical defense of absolute values is starting to be considered the beginning of a new phase in philosophy. This is a vital book for all who are interested in Anglo-American philosophy.
Includes bibliographical references.
pt. 1. Logic and conversation (1967, 1987): Prolegomena -- Logic and conversation -- Further notes on logic and conversation -- Indicative conditionals -- Utterer's meaning and intentions -- Utterer's meaning, sentence-meaning, and word-meaning -- Some models for implicature -- pt. 2. Explorations in semantics and metaphysics: Common sense and skepticism (c. 1946-1950) -- G.E. Moore and philosopher's paradoxes (c. 1953-1958) -- Pgy, and Plato's Republic (1988) -- Retrospective epilogue (1987).
Table of contents provided by Syndetics
- Part I Logic and Conversation (1967, 1987)
- 1 Prolegomena
- 2 Logic and Conversation
- 3 Further Notes on Logic and Conversation
- 4 Indicative Conditionals
- 5 Utterer's Meaning and Intentions
- 6 Utterer's Meaning, Sentence-Meaning, and Word-Meaning
- 7 Some Models for Implicature
- Part II Explorations in Semantics and Metaphysics
- 8 Common Sense and Skepticism (c. 1946-1950)
- 9 G. E. Moore and Philosopher's Paradoxes (c. 1953-1958)
- 10 Postwar Oxford Philosophy (1958)
- 11 Conceptual Analysis and the Province of Philosophy (1987)
- 12 Descartes on Clear and Distinct Perception (1966)
- 13 In Defense of a Dogma
- 14 Meaning (1948, 1957)
- 15 The Causal Theory of Perception (1961)
- 16 Some Remarks about the Senses (1962)
- 17 Presupposition and Conversational Implicature (1970, 1977)
- 18 Meaning Revisited (1976, 1980)
- 19 Metaphysics, Philosophical Eschatology, and Plato's Republic (1988)
- Retrospective Epilogue (1987)
- Index
Author notes provided by Syndetics
Paul Grice was a fellow and a tutor at St. John's College, Oxford University, from 1938 to 1967. He then taught philosophy at the University of California, Berkeley, until his death. Approaching philosophy in the post-Wittgensteinian mode through the study of ordinary language, Grice has been esteemed by the Anglo-American community of philosophers as "a miniaturist who changed the way other people paint big canvases" (Times Literary Supplement). Most of Grice's books are collections of articles. They have been influential among professional philosophers, not only because they present important theories, but also because they "scintillate" (Hilary Putnam's word), stimulating other philosophers to pick up the themes. The number of articles focused on Gricean themes has increased with each passing year.(Bowker Author Biography)