Studies in the Way of Words

H. Paul Grice

Harvard University Press, 1989 - Language Arts & Disciplines - 394 pages

This volume, Paul Grice’s first book, includes the long-delayed publication of his enormously influential 1967 William James Lectures. But there is much, much more in this work. 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.

Contents

• Prolegomena: 3
• Logic and Conversation: 22
• Further Notes on Logic and Conversation: 41
• Indicative Conditionals: 58
• Utterers Meaning and Intentions: 86
• Utterers Meaning SentenceMeaning and WordMeaning: 117
• Some Models for Implicature: 138
• Explorations in Semantics and Metaphysics: 145
• Common Sense and Skepticism c 19461950: 147
• G E Moore and Philosophers Paradoxes c 19531958: 154
• Postwar Oxford Philosophy 1958: 171
• Conceptual Analysis and the Province of Philosophy 1987: 181
• Descartes on Clear and Distinct Perception 1966: 186
• In Defense of a Dogma with P F Strawson 1956: 196
• Meaning 1948 1957: 213
• The Causal Theory of Perception 1961: 224
• Some Remarks about the Senses 1962: 248
• Presupposition and Conversational Implicature 1970 1977: 269
• Meaning Revisited 1976 1980: 283
• Metaphysics Philosophical Eschatology and Platos: 304
• Retrospective Epilogue 1987: 339
• Index: 387

Bibliographic information

• Title: Studies in the Way of Words; ACLS Humanities E-Book; William James lectures
• Author: H. Paul Grice
• Edition: illustrated, reprint, revised
• Publisher: Harvard University Press, 1989
• ISBN: 0674852710, 9780674852716
• Length: 394 pages
• Subjects: Language Arts & Disciplines / Linguistics / Etymology; Language Arts & Disciplines / Rhetoric; Philosophy / General; Philosophy / Logic