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Studies in the Way of Words
by Paul Grice

Synopses & Reviews

Publisher Comments:

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.

Review:

In interest and power this book far exceeds most publications of our time.

Review:

Grice was a miniaturist who changed the way other people paint big canvases. The question of correct scale is ultimately one of intellectual judgment, and in this his magisterial, fastidious prose rebukes those of us who want to move faster. [His] work culminated in the William James lectures delivered at Harvard in 1967, and philosophers will he grateful for having them finally available in one volume, Studies in the Way of Words, together with many other of Grice's papers, and a retrospective epilogue, written within two years of his death.

Synopsis:

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.

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Table of Contents

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 (with P. F. Strawson, 1956)

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

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Product Details

ISBN:
9780674852716
Author:
Grice, Paul
Publisher:
Harvard University Press
Author:
Grice, Paul
Subject:
Rhetoric
Subject:
Logic
Subject:
Etymology
Subject:
General Philosophy
Copyright:
1989
Publication Date:
April 1991
Binding:
Paperback
Grade Level:
General/trade
Language:
English
Illustrations:
None
Pages:
406
Dimensions:
9.18x6.08x.89 in. 1.25 lbs.
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