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 H. P. Grice was Fellow and Tutor in philosophy at St. John's, Oxford, and CUF University Lecturer in philosophy at Oxford -- how does this compare to

  Pasquale Vitale (Aversa, Caserta, Campania). V. insegna la ragione conversazionale. Read against Grice’s account of reason-governed conversational meaning, the passage’s “Pasquale Vitale … teaches conversational reason” can be recast as a difference of level and aim. For Grice, conversational rationality is a micro-theory: what a speaker means is fixed by intentions that are meant to be recognized, and by the hearer’s reasoned uptake under cooperative norms (so that what is implied can be inferred from what is said plus shared assumptions about relevance, evidence, and informativeness). Vitale’s emphasis, by contrast, treats “conversational reason” as a pedagogical-historical practice: understanding medieval philosophy requires reconstructing the concrete situations (institutions, biographies, intellectual geographies, and the plurality of Latin “dialects”) in which thinkers read, wrote, and taught, so that philosophical claims become intelligible as answers to real problems rath...

 

  Ettore Soleri (Macra, Cuneo, Piemonte): la ragione conversazionale ed implicatura conversazionale -- funzionalità veritativa dei connettivi. Grice and Ettore Soleri converge on the idea that reason is not exhausted by formal proof but is exercised in lived linguistic practice, yet they approach this convergence from different directions: Grice’s theory of reason‑governed conversational meaning locates rationality in the cooperative management of what is said and implicated, treating connectives such as “but,” “and,” or “so” as vehicles whose apparent logical force is often the product of conversational expectations rather than truth‑conditions, whereas Soleri, formed within Italian metaphysical and moral traditions, treats those same connective moments as sites where truth shows itself indirectly, emerging between affirmation and reservation, necessity and decision, value and being. For Grice, conversational rationality is procedural and regulative, grounded in shared norms that ...

  Luigi Soldati (Torino, Piemonte). Grice’s theory of reason‑governed conversational meaning and Soldati’s philosophical style as represented in Scritti filosofici (1930) converge on the idea that seriousness in thought does not require solemnity in expression, though they articulate this insight in different idioms. Grice reconstructs ordinary conversation as a rational, norm‑guided practice in which speakers exploit shared expectations of relevance, informativeness, and cooperativity to mean more than they explicitly say, making irony, understatement, and indirectness central to understanding how reason operates in everyday language. Soldati, writing from interwar Turin and within the cultivated Einaudi milieu, approaches the same phenomenon less analytically and more stylistically, treating philosophical discourse as something that can “smile” without sacrificing rigor, where obliqueness and wit are not deviations from reason but its natural vehicles. What Grice formalizes as ...

  J. L. Speranza – “Così bella implicatura, Grice!” (c) J. L. Speranza. Questo documento è reso disponibile in accesso pubblico per lettura e consultazione. È tuttavia vietata la riproduzione, totale o parziale, nonché la diffusione, la trascrizione, l’adattamento o la pubblicazione in qualunque forma e con qualunque mezzo (cartaceo, digitale, elettronico o altro), senza previa autorizzazione dell’autore. Sono incoraggiate citazioni e riprese brevi a fini di studio, discussione e critica, purché accompagnate da chiara e corretta attribuzione all’autore e al progetto Il Gruppo di Gioco di H. P. Grice. L’autore è lieto che la parola “Griceiana” (après Fodor) circoli anche presso i più sospettosi—perfino, chissà, tra gli Anti‑Grice—purché circoli con nome, fonte e buona educazione.   This study is not “about” Grice so much as an act of learned ventriloquism: a sustained feat of conversational scholarship in which J. L. Speranza makes Grice speak again—sometimes in English, so...