Studies in the Way of Words

Paul Grice provided philosophy with crucial ideas. His account of speakermeaning is the standard that others use to define their own minor divergences or future elaborations.

Part I. Logic and Conversation (1967, 1987) 1. Prolegomena 2. Logic and Conversation 3. Further Notes on Logic and Conversation 4. Indicative Conditionals 5. Utterer's Meaning and Intentions 6. Utterer's Meaning, Sentence-Meaning, and Word-Meaning 7. Some Models for Implicature Part II. Explorations in Semantics and Metaphysics 8. Common Sense and Skepticism (c. 1946-1950) 9. G. E. Moore and Philosopher's Paradoxes (c. 1953-1958) 10. Postwar Oxford Philosophy (1958) 11. Conceptual Analysis and the Province of Philosophy (1987) 12. Descartes on Clear and Distinct Perception (1966) 13. In Defense of a Dogma (with P. F. Strawson, 1956) 14. Meaning (1948, 1957) 15. The Causal Theory of Perception (1961) 16. Some Remarks about the Senses (1962) 17. Presupposition and Conversational Implicature (1970, 1977) 18. Meaning Revisited (1976, 1980) 19. Metaphysics, Philosophical Eschatology, and Plato's Republic (1988) Retrospective Epilogue (1987) Index