Notule bibliographique
Grice Paul, Aspects of Reason, Ed. R. O. Warner, Oxford, 2001, ISBN 0-19-824252-2.
Reasons and reasoning were central to the work of Paul Grice,
one of the most influential and admired philosophers of the late twentieth
century. In the John Locke Lectures that Grice delivered in Oxford at the
end of the 1970s, he set out his fundamental thoughts about these topics;
Aspects of Reason is the long-awaited publication of those lectures. They
focus on an investigation of practical necessity, as Grice contends that
practical necessities are established by derivation; they are necessary
because they are derivable. This work sets this claim in the context of
an account of reasons and reasoning, allowing Grice to defend his treatment
of necessity against obvious objections and revealing how the construction
of explicit derivations can play a central role in explaining and justifying
thought and action. Grice was still working on Aspects of Reason during
the last years of his life, and although unpolished, the book provides
an intimate glimpse into the workings of his mind and will refresh and
illuminate many areas of contemporary philosophy Paul Grice (1913-1988)
was Fellow of St John's College, and, until his retirement in 1980, Professor
of Philosophy at the University of California, Berkeley. Richard Warner
is Professor of Philosophy at Chicago-Kent College of Law.
CONTENTS:
R Warner, Introduction: Grice on Reasons and Rationality
H P Grice, Proem.
Essay 1: Reasons and Reasoning.
Essay 2: Reason and Reasons.
Essay 3: Practical and Alethic Reasoning (Part I).
Essay 4: Practical and Alethic Reasoning (Part 2).
Essay 5: Some Reflections about
Ends and Happiness. Index
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