Background
Grice, Herbert Paul was born on March 15, 1913 in Birmingham, England.
Grice, Herbert Paul was born on March 15, 1913 in Birmingham, England.
Corpus Christi College, Oxford, /nfls. Austin, Quine and Kripke.
1939-1967, Fellow of St John’s College, Oxford. 1967, presented William James Lectures at Harvard. 1967-1980, Professor of Philosophy, University of California, Berkeley.
1980-1984, Visiting Professor, University of Washington at Seattle. 1980-1990, Emeritus Professor of Philosophy, University of California, Berkeley.
Grandy. Richard E. and Warner, Richard (1986) Philosophical Grounds of Rationality: ¡n~ tentions, Categories, Ends, Oxford: Clarendon Press- MacKay, A. F. (1972) ‘Professor Grice’s theory of meaning’. Mind SI. Ziff. P. (1967) ‘On H. P. Grice's theory of meaning - Analysis. After the death of Austin in 1960. Grice came to the fore as a defender of the notion of a ‘speechact and, in the decades following, he became a significant figure in controversies in the philosophy of language. His William James Lectures, Published in schematic form in his ‘Utterer’s meaning’ paper ( 1967), received much attention in America. Grice stressed the importance of the utterer’s intention and, in particular, the intended response of the auditor. When someone calls out Fire!’ he intends others to try to do certain things as a result of recognizing his intention through his utterance. A language consists of a repertoire of communicative devices that are available to agents. In one of the Lectures, ‘Logic and conversation’, Grice developed the idea of conversational implication. Conversation, he maintained, is subject to rational principles and implications may correctly be drawn from what someone has said which are quite different from those that appear to he licensed by the rules of formal logic. This idea was developed by Strawson. Although he published little when he was at Oxford, he had a considerable influence as a teacher; and through his seminars. Strawson was among his pupils, and through his seminars, which were attended which were attended by sabbatical visitors in Oxford, he mfluenced many others, including Searle. Although Grice was most influential as a philosopher of language, his interests were wideranging. Late in life he returned to a study of dhics and was engaged, with Judith Baker, on Producing a book on Kant’s ethics. When he died h's many unpublished manuscripts were deposed as the Paul Grice Archives at the University of California at Berkeley. S°urces: Obituary, Independent, 31 Aug 1990.