[lit-ideas] The Gricean Cookery Book
- From: jlsperanza@xxxxxxx
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- Date: Tue, 11 May 2010 23:54:11 -0400
R. Paul, of Reed, writes:
"The late Jay Rosenberg (Reed 1963), also wrote
LinguisticRepresentation (1974) and One World and Our Knowledge of
It:The Problematic of Realism in Post-Kantian Perspective (1980), buthe
is best known for The Impoverished Students' Book of Cookery,Drinkery,
& Housekeepery, which he wrote as an undergraduate.
http://www.amazon.com/impoverished-students-cookery-drinkery-housekeepery/dp/B0006BPOL8
I understand it's still available at the Reed bookstore, in case any
ofthe list's impoverished students are interested."
That is excellent to know. I haven´t been able to find the contents to
the Rosenberg-Travis thing. As Geary knows, it´s 36 pieces. I´m sure
Grice 1957 and Grice-Strawson 1956. I know it´s Ziff on Grice for
Analysis. But I don´t have the Rosenberg and Travis to hand to
doublecheck and no online source to list the contents, from what I can
see.
---- Those were the days when linguists were still kept at bay as they
say. The book does not cover Grice´s work on implicature, which is too
technical, and for Grice only concerned with the methodology of
philosophy.
But by 1971, when R & T edited their collection, Grice had already
delivered the William James lectures (1967) and his "Utterer´s meaning
and intentions", an update of his "Meaning" (and in fact, WJ Lecture
No. 5) had been published in Philosophical Review for 1969, and his
less central "Utterer´s meaning, sentence meaning, and word meaning" --
WJ Lecture No. 6) even earlier, in the Foundations of Language for
1968.
But R & T perhaps thought that would be too much and just stuck with
the classic. Which, to repeat the story, was indeed just handwritten by
Grice -- this material in Chapman´s bio of Grice. Handwritten by Grice
in 1948 for a meeting of the Oxford Philosophical Society (hence the
emphasis on the by then sort of newish emotivist theory of Stevenson
(1944) that Grice quotes explicitly from. It was Lady Ann Strawson (nee
Martin) who typed Grice´s handwritten thing, and Strawson submitted it
to Philosophical Review. Upon acceptance, Grice was notified, and I
would think he thought it was too late to do anything about it -- plus.
It would have been too odd to write,
"Sorry but the paper submitted was not submitted by me, etc."
---- But whenever I read Grice´s "Meaning" and all the sometimes silly
polemic it engendered (by non-Griceans, of course) I cannot fail to
think of the cheek by Strawson in doing so.
Bennett goes on to suggest (in "Linguistic Behaviour") that Strawson
was trying to give more prestige to his collaborator in "Defense of a
dogma" (published by the same Philosophical Review in 1956). Indeed,
Bennett has a good gaffe here, which I commented on elsewhere. For
Bennett thinks that Grice´s Meaning is an ANSWER to "In defense of a
dogma" (when in fact it was written 9 years earlier). For, Bennett
thinks (along these lines): If "In defense of a dogma" challenges Quine
with a WAY to speak of "analytic" that is not circular, "Meaning"
furthers the point in explicating "meaning" (and thus analyticity) in
terms of (psychological) intentions.
Cheers,
J. L. Speranza
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