Griff, as he was universally known, was appointed to the chair of Philosophy and the newly founded University of Warwick in 1964. At the time he was the youngest Professor of Philosophy in the country, and he proceeded to build up a department, remarkable not only for the many distinguished philosophers who served and continue to serve in it, but also for its eclecticism and for the range of philosophical interests and styles represented in it. By the time of his retirement from Warwick, in 1997, the department had become one of the biggest and strongest in the country.