Steven Gro
Datos Biográficos
| ID | 3866028 |
|---|---|
| NOMBRE | Steven Gro |
| NOMBRES | Steven |
| APELLIDO | Gro |
| FIRMA | GRO S |
| AFILIACIONES | Johns Hopkins University |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-9224-8200 |
| VERIFICADO | Sí |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 19 |
| TOTAL DE CITAS | 22 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 19 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMER AÑO DE PUBLICACIÓN | 1985 |
| AÑO MÁS RECIENTE DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2024 |
| ÍNDICE H | 3 |
Is there an empirical case for semantic perception
I argue that results in perception science do not support the claim that there is semantic perception or that typical, unreflective utterance comprehension is a perceptual process. Phenomena discussed include evidence-insensitivity, the Stroop effect, pop-out, and adaptation – as well as how these phenomena might relate to the function, format, and structure of perceptual representations. An emphasis is placed on non-inferential transitions from …
Iconicity, 2 nd ‐order isomorphism, and perceptual categorization
“Impossible” Somatosensation and the (Ir)rationality of Perception
Impossible figures represent the world in ways it cannot be. From the work of M. C. Escher to any popular perception textbook, such experiences show how some principles of mental processing can be so entrenched and inflexible as to produce absurd and even incoherent outcomes that could not occur in reality. Surprisingly, however, such impossible experiences are mostly limited to visual perception; are there “impossible figures” for other sensory …
Probabilistic representations in perception
Nick Shea's Representation in cognitive science commits him to representations in perceptual processing that are about probabilities. This commentary concerns how to adjudicate between this view and an alternative that locates the probabilities rather in the representational states’ associated “attitudes.” As background and motivation, evidence for probabilistic representations in perceptual processing is adduced, and it is shown how, on either c…
Meaning Without Representation
Linguistic Intuitions
Linguists often advert to what are sometimes calledlinguistic intuitions. These intuitions and the uses to which they are put give rise to a variety of philosophically interesting questions: Whatarelinguistic intuitions - for example, what kind of attitude or mental state is involved? Why do they have evidential force and how might this force be underwritten by their causal etiology? What light might their causal etiology shed on questions of cog…
Revisited Linguistic Intuitions
Michael Devitt ([2006a], [2006b]) argues that, insofar as linguists possess better theories about language than non-linguists, their linguistic intuitions are more reliable. (Culbertson and Gross [2009]) presented empirical evidence contrary to this claim. Devitt ([2010]) replies that, in part because we overemphasize the distinction between acceptability and grammaticality, we misunderstand linguists’ claims, fall into inconsistency, and fail to…
Vagueness in Context
Book Review| April 01 2009 Vagueness in Context Stewart Shapiro, Vagueness in Context. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2006. xiv + 226 pp. Steven Gross Steven Gross Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google The Philosophical Review (2009) 118 (2): 261–266. https://doi.org/10.1215/00318108-2008-051 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn Email Permissions Search Site Citation Steven Gross; Vagueness in Context. …
Are Linguists Better Subjects
Who are the best subjects for judgment tasks intended to test grammatical hypotheses? Michael Devitt ([2006a], [2006b]) argues, on the basis of a hypothesis concerning the psychology of such judgments, that linguists themselves are. We present empirical evidence suggesting that the relevant divide is not between linguists and non-linguists, but between subjects with and without minimally sufficient task-specific knowledge. In particular, we show …
Reply to Jackendoff
In this note, I clarify the point of my paper “The Nature of Semantics: On Jackendoff's Arguments” (NS) in light of Ray Jackendoff's comments in his “Linguistics in Cognitive Science: The State of the Art.” Along the way, I amplify my remarks on unification
Trivalent Semantics and the Vaguely Vague
The nature of semantics
Jackendoff defends a mentalist approach to semantics that investigates conceptual structures in the mind/brain and their interfaces with other structures, including specifically linguistic structures responsible for syntactic and phonological competence. He contrasts this approach with one that seeks to characterize the intentional relations between expressions and objects in the world. The latter, he argues, cannot be reconciled with mentalism. …
Vagueness, Indirect Speech Reports, and the World
Articulating Reasons
Book Review| April 01 2002 Articulating Reasons: An Introduction to Inferentialism Robert B. Brandom, Articulating Reasons: An Introduction to Inferentialism. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 2000. Pp. 230. Steven Gross Steven Gross Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google The Philosophical Review (2002) 111 (2): 284–287. https://doi.org/10.1215/00318108-111-2-284 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Twitter Permissions Search Si…
Articulating Reasons
Introduction 1. Semantic Inferentialism and Logical Expressivism 2. Action, Norms, and Practical Reasoning 3. Insights and Blindspots of Reliabilism 4. What Are Singular Terms, and Why Are There Any? 5. A Social Route from Reasoning to Representing 6. Objectivity and the Normative Fine Structure of Rationality Notes Index
What's Within? Nativism Reconsidered
Book Review| January 01 2001 WHAT'S WITHIN? NATIVISM RECONSIDERED WHAT'S WITHIN? NATIVISM RECONSIDERED. By Fiona Cowie. New York: Oxford University Press, 1999. Pp. xviii, 334. Steven Gross Steven Gross Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google The Philosophical Review (2001) 110 (1): 94–97. https://doi.org/10.1215/00318108-110-1-94 Views Icon Views Article contents Figures & tables Video Audio Supplementary Data Peer Review Shar…
When two become one
This paper examines the structural consequences of the contact between Dutch overseers and Eastern Ij slaves during the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries on the formation of Berbice Dutch, an unusual creole because of its remarkably homogeneous substrate. Based on the assumption that the structure-building operations in language contact situations are governed by the relative accessibility of morphemes in production, various surface configurat…
Intentionality and the markedness model in literary codeswitching
Cancer treatment and research in humanistic perspective
Are Linguists Better Subjects
Who are the best subjects for judgment tasks intended to test grammatical hypotheses? Michael Devitt ([2006a], [2006b]) argues, on the basis of a hypothesis concerning the psychology of such judgments, that linguists themselves are. We present empirical evidence suggesting that the relevant divide is not between linguists and non-linguists, but between subjects with and without minimally sufficient task-specific knowledge. In particular, we show …
Revisited Linguistic Intuitions
Michael Devitt ([2006a], [2006b]) argues that, insofar as linguists possess better theories about language than non-linguists, their linguistic intuitions are more reliable. (Culbertson and Gross [2009]) presented empirical evidence contrary to this claim. Devitt ([2010]) replies that, in part because we overemphasize the distinction between acceptability and grammaticality, we misunderstand linguists’ claims, fall into inconsistency, and fail to…
Linguistic Intuitions
Linguists often advert to what are sometimes calledlinguistic intuitions. These intuitions and the uses to which they are put give rise to a variety of philosophically interesting questions: Whatarelinguistic intuitions - for example, what kind of attitude or mental state is involved? Why do they have evidential force and how might this force be underwritten by their causal etiology? What light might their causal etiology shed on questions of cog…
Intentionality and the markedness model in literary codeswitching
Vagueness in Context
Book Review| April 01 2009 Vagueness in Context Stewart Shapiro, Vagueness in Context. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2006. xiv + 226 pp. Steven Gross Steven Gross Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google The Philosophical Review (2009) 118 (2): 261–266. https://doi.org/10.1215/00318108-2008-051 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn Email Permissions Search Site Citation Steven Gross; Vagueness in Context. …
Cancer treatment and research in humanistic perspective
When two become one
This paper examines the structural consequences of the contact between Dutch overseers and Eastern Ij slaves during the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries on the formation of Berbice Dutch, an unusual creole because of its remarkably homogeneous substrate. Based on the assumption that the structure-building operations in language contact situations are governed by the relative accessibility of morphemes in production, various surface configurat…
Intentionality and the markedness model in literary codeswitching
What's Within? Nativism Reconsidered
Book Review| January 01 2001 WHAT'S WITHIN? NATIVISM RECONSIDERED WHAT'S WITHIN? NATIVISM RECONSIDERED. By Fiona Cowie. New York: Oxford University Press, 1999. Pp. xviii, 334. Steven Gross Steven Gross Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google The Philosophical Review (2001) 110 (1): 94–97. https://doi.org/10.1215/00318108-110-1-94 Views Icon Views Article contents Figures & tables Video Audio Supplementary Data Peer Review Shar…
Vagueness, Indirect Speech Reports, and the World
Articulating Reasons
Book Review| April 01 2002 Articulating Reasons: An Introduction to Inferentialism Robert B. Brandom, Articulating Reasons: An Introduction to Inferentialism. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 2000. Pp. 230. Steven Gross Steven Gross Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google The Philosophical Review (2002) 111 (2): 284–287. https://doi.org/10.1215/00318108-111-2-284 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Twitter Permissions Search Si…
Articulating Reasons
Introduction 1. Semantic Inferentialism and Logical Expressivism 2. Action, Norms, and Practical Reasoning 3. Insights and Blindspots of Reliabilism 4. What Are Singular Terms, and Why Are There Any? 5. A Social Route from Reasoning to Representing 6. Objectivity and the Normative Fine Structure of Rationality Notes Index
The nature of semantics
Jackendoff defends a mentalist approach to semantics that investigates conceptual structures in the mind/brain and their interfaces with other structures, including specifically linguistic structures responsible for syntactic and phonological competence. He contrasts this approach with one that seeks to characterize the intentional relations between expressions and objects in the world. The latter, he argues, cannot be reconciled with mentalism. …
Reply to Jackendoff
In this note, I clarify the point of my paper “The Nature of Semantics: On Jackendoff's Arguments” (NS) in light of Ray Jackendoff's comments in his “Linguistics in Cognitive Science: The State of the Art.” Along the way, I amplify my remarks on unification
Trivalent Semantics and the Vaguely Vague
Vagueness in Context
Book Review| April 01 2009 Vagueness in Context Stewart Shapiro, Vagueness in Context. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2006. xiv + 226 pp. Steven Gross Steven Gross Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google The Philosophical Review (2009) 118 (2): 261–266. https://doi.org/10.1215/00318108-2008-051 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn Email Permissions Search Site Citation Steven Gross; Vagueness in Context. …
Are Linguists Better Subjects
Who are the best subjects for judgment tasks intended to test grammatical hypotheses? Michael Devitt ([2006a], [2006b]) argues, on the basis of a hypothesis concerning the psychology of such judgments, that linguists themselves are. We present empirical evidence suggesting that the relevant divide is not between linguists and non-linguists, but between subjects with and without minimally sufficient task-specific knowledge. In particular, we show …
Revisited Linguistic Intuitions
Michael Devitt ([2006a], [2006b]) argues that, insofar as linguists possess better theories about language than non-linguists, their linguistic intuitions are more reliable. (Culbertson and Gross [2009]) presented empirical evidence contrary to this claim. Devitt ([2010]) replies that, in part because we overemphasize the distinction between acceptability and grammaticality, we misunderstand linguists’ claims, fall into inconsistency, and fail to…
Linguistic Intuitions
Linguists often advert to what are sometimes calledlinguistic intuitions. These intuitions and the uses to which they are put give rise to a variety of philosophically interesting questions: Whatarelinguistic intuitions - for example, what kind of attitude or mental state is involved? Why do they have evidential force and how might this force be underwritten by their causal etiology? What light might their causal etiology shed on questions of cog…
Meaning Without Representation
Probabilistic representations in perception
Nick Shea's Representation in cognitive science commits him to representations in perceptual processing that are about probabilities. This commentary concerns how to adjudicate between this view and an alternative that locates the probabilities rather in the representational states’ associated “attitudes.” As background and motivation, evidence for probabilistic representations in perceptual processing is adduced, and it is shown how, on either c…
“Impossible” Somatosensation and the (Ir)rationality of Perception
Impossible figures represent the world in ways it cannot be. From the work of M. C. Escher to any popular perception textbook, such experiences show how some principles of mental processing can be so entrenched and inflexible as to produce absurd and even incoherent outcomes that could not occur in reality. Surprisingly, however, such impossible experiences are mostly limited to visual perception; are there “impossible figures” for other sensory …
Is there an empirical case for semantic perception
I argue that results in perception science do not support the claim that there is semantic perception or that typical, unreflective utterance comprehension is a perceptual process. Phenomena discussed include evidence-insensitivity, the Stroop effect, pop-out, and adaptation – as well as how these phenomena might relate to the function, format, and structure of perceptual representations. An emphasis is placed on non-inferential transitions from …
Iconicity, 2 nd ‐order isomorphism, and perceptual categorization
Computer Science (14 obras) · Philosophy (13 obras) · Linguistics (12 obras) · Psychology (11 obras) · Epistemology (10 obras) · Philosophy and Theoretical Science (7 obras) · Syntax, Semantics, Linguistic Variation (6 obras) · Cognitive psychology (5 obras) · Cognitive science (5 obras) · Artificial Intelligence (4 obras)