[lit-ideas] Grice and Popper: The Ten Differences
- From: Jlsperanza@xxxxxxx
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- Date: Sat, 23 Nov 2013 10:34:32 -0500 (EST)
McEvoy was considering Popper's views on anomalous monism and neutral
monism versus (or vis–à–vis, as the snob of me prefers) interactionism. Below,
some ten differences with another philosopher.
Cheers,
Speranza
1. Popper was born in Austria, Grice was born in the Heart of England. We
can be very specific as to where Grice was born -- formerly Straffordshire
(then Warwickshire, now "West Midlands"). His mother ran a successful school
on the Main Street of affluent Harborne, where Grice was born. On the
other hand we perhaps should be just as specific as to Popper.
2. Grice went to a 'public' school, which is a private school -- Clifton.
Therefore, he was immersed from an early age with the idyllic countriside
surrounding the Suspension Bridge. Popper possibly did not attend Clifton,
but another school, and being specific here may deepen the difference.
3. Grice won a scholarship to Corpus Christi, Oxford. In general, the crème
de la crème of the Oxford class that counts -- the undergrads. Indeed, he
fell within the scholarship of a "Midlands scholarship boy", as they were
called. And Corpus Christi was the right place for him. He went there for
his ability with Greek, which he had learned at Clifton. Popper's
undergraduate years prove another difference with Grice.
4. After receiving his M. A. from Oxford, Grice decides to teach "Classics"
in Rossall (in the 'gritty north' of Lancashire). It does not work, and is
brought back to Oxford the next year. Popper's years after graduation
possibly mark yet another difference with Grice.
5. Grice finally is made a "Fellow of St. John's College", one of the
richest colleges in England, and while not the best -- the best is Christ
Church
-- he was loyal to that college, and never changed affiliations. Popper's
affiliations should prove another difference with Grice.
6. For some reason, after lecturing in "the Americas" (notably Harvard,
USA's best university, most say), Grice finds a "Spanish-style" house in the
Berkeley hills and settles for life, after finding tenure with the
Department of Philosophy (Moses Hall) at UC/Berkeley. The story of the further
affiliations with Popper should make for another difference.
7. Grice was an Oxonian; Popper criticised Oxonians.
8. Grice believed in Snow's "Two Cultures" -- philosophers belong to one;
scientists to the other. Popper dreamed of bridging the gap between Snow's
two cultures.
9. Popper wrote in English and his native Viennese; Grice only in English,
if he managed a few sentences in Latin in Greek at Clifton and Corpus
Christi.
10. Popper got his volume in "The Library of Living Philosophers". It was
too late when the editors thought of a similar volume for Grice, who was by
then dead.
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