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Herbert Paul Grice (March 13, 1913, Birmingham, England – August 28, 1988, Berkeley, California), usually publishing under the name H. P. Grice, H. Paul Grice, or Paul Grice, was a British-educated philosopher of language, who spent the final two decades of his career in the United States.

Life[]

Born and raised in the United Kingdom, he was educated at Clifton College and then at Corpus Christi College, Oxford. After brief period teaching at Rossall, he went back to Oxford where he taught until 1967. In that year, he moved to the United States to take up a professorship at the University of California, Berkeley, where he taught until his death in 1988. He returned to the UK in 1979 to give the John Locke lectures on Aspects of Reason. He reprinted many of his essays and papers in his valedictory book, Studies in the Way of Words (1989).

He was married and had two children. He and his wife lived in an old Spanish style house in the Berkeley Hills.

Grice on meaning[]

Grice's work is one of the foundations of the modern study of pragmatics.

Grice is remembered mainly for his contributions to the study of speaker meaning, linguistic meaning, and (several of) the interrelations between these two phenomena. He provided, and developed, an analysis of the notion of linguistic meaning in terms of speaker

Herbert Paul Grice (b. 1913–d. 1988)

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Biography:Paul Grice

Short description: British philosopher of language (1913–1988)

Herbert Paul Grice (13 March 1913 – 28 August 1988), usually publishing under the name H. P. Grice, H. Paul Grice, or Paul Grice, was a British philosopher of language who created the theory of implicature and the cooperative principle (with its namesake Gricean maxims), which became foundational concepts in the linguistic field of pragmatics. His work on meaning has also influenced the philosophical study of semantics.

Life

Born and raised in Harborne (now a suburb of Birmingham), in the United Kingdom, he was educated at Clifton College and then at Corpus Christi College, Oxford. After a brief period teaching at Rossall School, he went back to Oxford, firstly as a graduate student at Merton College from 1936 to 1938, and then as a Lecturer, Fellow and Tutor from 1938 at St John's College. During the Second World War Grice served in the Royal Navy; after the war he returned to his Fellowship at St John's, which he held until 1967. In that year, he moved to the United States to take up a professorship at the University of California, Berkeley, where he taught until his death in 1988. He returned to the UK in 1979 to give the John Locke lectures on Aspects of Reason. He reprinted many of his essays and papers in his valedictory book, Studies in the Way of Words (1989).

Grice married Kathleen Watson in 1942; they had two children.

Grice on meaning

One of Grice's two most influential contributions to the study of language and communication is his theory of meaning, which he began to develop in his article "Meaning", written in 1948 but published only in 1957 at the prodding of his colleague, P. F. Strawson. Grice further developed his theory of meaning in the fifth and sixth of his William James lectures on "Logic and Conversation"

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Bach, Kent. “Paul Grice.” In Philosophy of Language: The Key Thinkers. Edited by Barry Lee, 179–198. London: Continuum, 2011.

Introduces and explains Grice’s most influential contributions on speaker meaning and conversational implicature, including common misunderstandings of his views. Also offers recommendations for further reading related to Grice’s work.

Chapman, Siobhan. Paul Grice: Philosopher and Linguist. Basingstoke, UK: Palgrave Macmillan, 2009.

Comprehensive and accessible monograph of Grice’s life and philosophy, the only one of its kind. Draws on Grice’s archives, and provides in-depth discussion of his ideas and their development, situated within the context of the alternative views and methods of his contemporaries. Closes with a chapter on Grice’s ongoing influence in linguistics.

Grandy, Richard E. “On Grice on Language.” Journal of Philosophy 86.10 (1989): 514–525.

DOI: 10.5840/jphil1989861021

Useful exposition of Grice’s fundamental contributions to philosophy of language.

Grandy, Richard E., and Richard Warner. “Paul Grice: A View of His Work.” In Philosophical Grounds of Rationality: Intentions, Categories, Ends. Edited by Richard E. Grandy and Richard Warner, 1–44. Oxford: Clarendon, 1986.

Discusses the systematic nature of Grice’s work, much of which at the time was unpublished. Focuses on Grice’s accounts of meaning, reasoning, psychological explanation, metaphysics, and ethics, topics with which other essays in the volume are concerned.

Grandy, Richard E., and Richard Warner. “Paul Grice.” The Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy. Edited by Edward N. Zalta. Stanford, CA: Stanford University, 2017.

Encyclopedia entry that treats every area of Grice’s work: offers succinct descriptions of Grice’s main ideas and their development, ac

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Hacker "became a Tutorial Fellow at St John's College in 1966..."

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Herbert Paul Grice became a Tutorial Fellow at St. John's in the 1930s.

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Peter Michael Stephan Hacker was born in London on July 15th 1939.

Herbert Paul Grice was born in 1913 in the Heart of England.

Hacker is, like Grice, an English philosopher.

Hacker's principal expertise is in the philosophy of mind and philosophy of language.

So was Grice's. Only Grice would go on to say, "Philosophy, like virtue is entire". He dismissed descriptions of philosophical expertise as implicating the contrary ("Mr. Poodle, our man in eighteenth-century German aesthetics" +> "and bad at it").

Hacker is known for his detailed exegesis of the work of Ludwig Wittgenstein -- cfr. Grice as overhearing Austin, "Some like Witters, but Moore's MY man" --and his outspoken conceptual critique of cognitive neuroscience.

This he shares with Grice.

Hacker studied philosophy, politics and economics (or PPE for short -- vs. Grice who held an old-fashioned Lit. Hum. degree -- at The Queen's College, Oxford from 1960-63.

In 1963-65 Hacker was senior Scholar at St Antony's College, Oxford, where he began graduate work under the supervision of Professor H. L. A. Hart.

His D.Phil thesis "Rules and Duties" was completed in 1966 during a Junior Research Fellowship at Balliol College, Oxford.

Since 1966 Hacker has been a Tutorial Fellow at St John's, Oxford (as was Grice for years) and of the Oxford University philosophy department.

Hacker's visiting positions at other universities include:

Makerere College, Uganda (1968)
Swarthmore College, USA (1973 and 1986)
University of Michigan, USA (1974)
Milton C. Scott visiting professor at Queen's University, Kingston, Canada (1985)
Visiting Fellow in Humanities at University of Bologna, Italy (2009).

From 1985 to 1987 Hacker was a British Academy Researc