Herbert Paul Grice (March 13, 1913, Birmingham, England - August 28, 1988, Berkeley, California), usually publishing under the name H. P. Grice, H. Paul Grice, or Paul Grice, was a British-educated philosopher of language, who spent the final two decades of his career in the United States.
Born and raised in the United Kingdom, he was educated at Clifton College and then at Corpus Christi College, Oxford. After brief period teaching at Rossall, h...
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Herbert Paul Grice (March 13, 1913, Birmingham, England - August 28, 1988, Berkeley, California), usually publishing under the name H. P. Grice, H. Paul Grice, or Paul Grice, was a British-educated philosopher of language, who spent the final two decades of his career in the United States.
Born and raised in the United Kingdom, he was educated at Clifton College and then at Corpus Christi College, Oxford. After brief period teaching at Rossall, he went back to Oxford where he taught until 1967. In that year, he moved to the United States to take up a professorship at the University of California, Berkeley, where he taught until his death in 1988. He returned to the UK in 1979 to give the John Locke lectures on Aspects of Reason. He reprinted many of his essays and papers in his valedictory book, Studies in the Way of Words (1989).
He was married and had two children. He and his wife lived in an old Spanish style house in the Berkeley Hills.
Grice's work is one of the foundations of...
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