Paul Grice

Herbert Paul Grice
Born	(1913-03-13)13 March 1913 Birmingham, England, U.K.
Died	28 August 1988(1988-08-28) (aged 75) Berkeley, California, U.S.
Alma mater	Corpus Christi College, Oxford
Era	20th-century philosophy
Region	Western philosophy
School	Analytic philosophy
Main interests	Philosophy of language Semantics Pragmatics Metaphysics Epistemology History of philosophy
Notable ideas	Implicature · speaker meaning · Gricean maxims · Grice's paradox · Causal theory of perception

Herbert Paul Grice (13 March 1913 – 28 August 1988),^[1] usually publishing under the name H. P. Grice, H. Paul Grice, or Paul Grice, was a British philosopher of language who created the theory of implicature and the cooperative principle (with its namesake Gricean maxims), which became foundational concepts in the linguistic field of pragmatics. His work on meaning has also influenced the philosophical study of semantics.