H. P. Grice and J. L. Speranza

 Magister: Today, boys, History of England becomes History of English Literature, which is what happens when Rome conquers the timetable. Shropshire: Better Rome than grammar. G.: You say that only because Rome dies more noisily. Magister: Quite. We are upon Shakespeare’s Roman plays, and since you both affect intelligence, you may begin by naming the principal figures. Shropshire: Julius Caesar, obviously. G.: Caesar, yes, and Brutus. Magister: Continue. Shropshire: Antony. G.: Cassius. Magister: Good. Finish Julius Caesar properly before you wander into empire. Shropshire: Casca. G.: Octavius, though only by anticipation. Magister: Also Portia and Calpurnia if you wish to remember that women exist in tragedy. Shropshire: They generally exist to make men more agitated. G.: That is already a psychology, though not a good one. Magister: Now, Coriolanus. Shropshire: Coriolanus. G.: Volumnia. Shropshire: Menenius. G.: Virgilia. Shropshire: Aufidius. G.: Cominius, if one wishes not to ...

  Catalogue Raisonné of J. L. Speranza’s Publications – H. P. Grice e J. L. Speranza : La Conversazione – I Verbali: RI     Speranza, J. L. (n. d.). ‘Grice e Richeri: implicature del deutero-esperanto  – la scuola di La Morra -- filosofia italiana   Ludovico Ignazio Richeri (La Morra, Cuneo, Piemonte): implicature del deutero-esperanto. Grice’s theory of reason-governed conversational meaning is a micro-theory of how interlocutors can responsibly infer what is meant beyond what is said: given a presumption of rational cooperation, hearers recover implicatures by attributing intentions and by reasoning from shared norms (relevance, sufficiency, etc.), so that the “extra” content is explainable, contestable, and in principle cancellable. Richeri’s project, by contrast, belongs to the Leibniz–Peano dream of a philosophically regimented universal language: in his Algebrae philosophicae in usum artis inveniendi specimen primum (printed in the early Me...