Philosophical Grounds of Rationality: Intentions, Categories, Ends (Clarendon Paperbacks)

Richard E. Grandy Richard Warner

ISBN 10: 0198244649 / ISBN 13: 9780198244646

Published by Clarendon Press, 1988

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512 pages. 8.35x5.51x1.34 inches. In Stock.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Philosophical Grounds of Rationality: Intentions, Categories, Ends (Clarendon Paperbacks)
• Publisher: Clarendon Press
• Publication Date: 1988
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0198244649
• ISBN 13: 9780198244646
• Binding: Paperback
• Condition: Brand New
• Weight: 0.64 kilograms

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Synopsis

H.P. Grice is a distinguished philosopher predominantly known for his influential contributions to the philosophy of language, but that is only one strand in a rich tapestry of ideas bearing on the philosophy of mind, ethics, and metaphysics as well. Some of the essays in this collection of original papers by leading philosophers edited by Grandy and Warner develop Grice's earlier work in the philosophy of language, but most of them discuss or present his newer and less-known work. Together they demonstrate the unified and powerful character of his thoughts on being, mind, meaning, and morals. An introductory essay provides some of the first overview of Grice's thought, and makes explicit some of the relations among the essays. Grice's substantial response is followed by nineteen contributed papers whose authors include Donald Davidson, Stephen Schiffer, John Searle, and P.F. Strawson. The Times Literary Supplement writes of Grice: 'the only leader of whom it is true that the level of

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.