Well, Bergmann (not Ingmar) should be praised for having seduced Grice with another coinage.
Bergmann was visiting Oxford on a Friday. Next Saturday morning, Austin´s "kindergarten" -- as it is called in the obit. of D. F. Pears, online -- was meeting.
Instead, Bergmann opted to spend the night in London.¨Why waste my Saturday mornings with some English Futilitarians?" he is said to have said.
Instead, he spent it with some cosmopolitan haw.
Cheers,
J. L. Speranza
Ah well,
for the Grice Circle
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J. L. writes
[Rorty] should forever praised for inventing the coinage to label Grice´s >philosophy, ¨The linguistic turn¨. He also has a book on the endless conversation >(cf. Vargas Llosa on the endless orgy). Why he turned a Frog escapes me.
Well, hardly. The phrase 'the linguistic turn,' to mark a (then) new direction in philosophy first appears in Gustav Bergmann's 'Logical Positivism, Language, and the Recostruction of Metaphysics' (Rivista Critica di Storia della Filosofia 8, 1953), where Bergmann says uses it to denote what was shared by a number of early to mid-20th century philosophers: 'all accept the linguistic turn Wittgenstein initiated in the Tractatus.' The article can be found at www.hist-analytic.org/BergmannMLP.htm Rorty used the phrase as the title of a collection of essays he edited sometime in the 1960's. (His introduction is very good.) Robert Paul ------------------------------------------------------------------ To change your Lit-Ideas settings (subscribe/unsub, vacation on/off, digest on/off), visit www.andreas.com/faq-lit-ideas.html ------------------------------------------------------------------ To change your Lit-Ideas settings (subscribe/unsub, vacation on/off, digest on/off), visit www.andreas.com/faq-lit-ideas.html
