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University of California: In Memoriam, 1992

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Paul Grice was born March 13, 1913, in Birmingham, England, earned two Firsts at Corpus Christi College, Oxford (1935 and 1936), and, after a year as Assistant Master at Rossall School in Lancashire, began a period as Lecturer, Tutor, Fellow, and finally University Lecturer at St. John's College, Oxford. His Oxford career, during which his reputation as a philosopher's philosopher spread through the English-speaking portion of the world, was interrupted by nearly five years' service in the Royal Navy, at first in the Atlantic theatre and later in Admiralty intelligence. After the war, he was a visiting lecturer at Harvard, Brandeis, Stanford, and Cornell, and was elected to the British Academy in 1966. He joined the Berkeley faculty in 1967, where he taught until 1986, well past his 1979 retirement, serving briefly as department chairman in 1971. He was one of very few philosophers invited to give both the William James Lectures at Harvard (1967) and the John Locke Lectures at Oxford (

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