Studies in the Way of Words

by Paul Grice

Book Overview

This volume, Paul Grice's first book, includes the long-delayed publication of his enormously influential 1967 William James Lectures. But there is much, much more in this work. Grice himself has carefully arranged and framed the sequence of essays to emphasize not a certain set of ideas but a habit of mind, a style of philosophizing.

Grice has, to be sure, provided philosophy with crucial ideas. His account of speaker-meaning is the standard...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0674852710
• ISBN13: 9780674852716
• Release Date: April 1991
• Publisher: Harvard University Press
• Length: 406 Pages
• Weight: 1.32 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.1" x 9.2"