Philosophical Grounds of Rationality: Intentions, Categories, Ends - Hardcover

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0198247478 ISBN 13: 9780198247470

Publisher: Oxford University Press, 1986

Synopsis

H.P. Grice is known principally for his influential contributions to the philosophy of language, but his work also includes treatises on the philosophy of mind, ethics, and metaphysics--much of which is unpublished to date. This collection of original essays by such philosophers as Nancy Cartwright, Donald Davidson, Gilbert Harman, and P.F. Strawson demonstrates the unified and powerful character of Grice's thoughts on being, mind, meaning, and morals. An introductory essay by the editors provides the first overview of Grice's work.

About this title

About the Author

Richard E. Grandy is Professor of Philosophy at Rice University, Houston. Richard Warner is Assistant Professor of Philosophy at the University of Southern California.

Review

"Not well known outside the philosophical fraternity, Paul Grice is influential and admired within it ... he is without peer as an example of how to do philosophy directly, simply, and without idiosyncracy ... the only leader of whom it is true that the level of the discipline would be raised
if most philosophers took him as their model of how to think and write."

--Times Literary Supplement

"The essays are of very high quality both intrinsically and as aids in understanding Grice's work..."

--Choice, October 1986

Edition details

• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Publication date: 1986
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0198247478
• ISBN 13: 9780198247470
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 506
• Editor: Grandy Richard E., Warner Richard