Jerrold J Katz
Datos Biográficos
| ID | 496138 |
|---|---|
| NOMBRE | Jerrold J Katz |
| NOMBRES | Jerrold J |
| APELLIDO | Katz |
| FIRMA | KATZ J J |
| AFILIACIONES | Massachusetts Institute of Technology |
| VERIFICADO | No |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 45 |
| TOTAL DE CITAS | 194 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 45 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMER AÑO DE PUBLICACIÓN | 1962 |
| AÑO MÁS RECIENTE DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2004 |
| ÍNDICE H | 6 |
Sense, reference, and philosophy
In Sense, Reference, and Philosophy, Jerrold J. Katz develops the philosophical implications of an autonomous theory of sense. On Katz's intensionalism, sense is divorced from reference; sense mediates, but does not determine, reference. Katz argues that his theory of "thin" senses accomplishes all and only what a theory of meaning should be responsible for: representations of the sense structure of the smallest meaning-bearing elements of a lang…
Realistic Rationalism (Representation and Mind)
Realistic Rationalism
Compositional Idioms
In this article we argue that there is a large class of expressions, typified by plastic flower, stuffed animal and kosher bacon , that have a unique semantics combining compositional, idiomatic and decompositional interpretation. These expressions are compositional because their constituents contribute their meanings to the meanings of the wholes; they are idiomatic because their interpretation involves assigning dictionary entries to nontermina…
Realistic Rationalism
Jerrold Katz develops a new philosophical position integrating realism and rationalism. In Realistic Rationalism, Jerrold J. Katz develops a new philosophical position integrating realism and rationalism. Realism here means that the objects of study in mathematics and other formal sciences are abstract; rationalism means that our knowledge of them is not empirical. Katz uses this position to meet the principal challenges to realism. In exposing t…
Analyticity, Necessity, and the Epistemology of Semantics
Contemporary philosophy standardly accepts Frege's conceptions of sense as the determiner of reference and of analyticity as (necessary) truth in virtue of meaning. This paper argues that those conceptions are mistaken. It develops referentially autonomous notions of sense and analyticity and applies them to the semantics of natural kind terms. The arguments of Donnellan, Putnam, and Kripke concerning natural kind terms are widely taken to refute…
Names Without Bearers
L'A. analyse le probleme de la signification des noms sans reference existante qui posent particulierement probleme aux successeurs de J. S. Mill: que penser du nom Pere Noel par exemple? L'A. fait appel aux theories semantiques de Kripke et Frege pour resoudre ce probleme
Precis of The Metaphysics of Meaning
Replies to Commentators
I feel very honored by this symposium and the critique of my work that it provides, particularly so because the contributors are, without exception, colleagues whose writings I know and esteem. And I am deeply grateful to my old friend Ernest Sosa for arranging this complex project with exemplary efficiency. As I observed on a recent occasion philosophers do not write to agree with one another, and so it does not surprise me that the contributors…
Literal meaning and logical theory
The Metaphysics of Meaning
Jerrold J. Katz offers a radical reappraisal of the "linguistic turn" in twentieth-century philosophy. He shows that the naturalism that emerged to become the dominant philosophical position was never adequately proved. Katz critiques the major arguments for contemporary naturalism and develops a new conception of the naturalistic fallacy. This conception, inspired by Moore, explains why attempts to naturalize linguistics and logic, and perhaps e…
The Philosophy of Linguistics
Journal Article Book Reviews Get access The Philosophy of Linguistics. By J. J. Katz. (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1986. Pp. 259. Price £17.50, pb. £6.95.) D. Roberts D. Roberts University of St. Andrews Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The Philosophical Quarterly, Volume 39, Issue 154, January 1989, Pages 133–136, https://doi.org/10.2307/2220362 Published: 01 January 1989
Cogitations
Language and Other Abstract Objects
Language and Other Abstract Objects
Propositional Structure and Illocutionary Force
This book offers a new theory of the structure of propositions, which provides a uniform treatment of constative and performative sentences. Jerrold Katz shows that performatives can enter into logically valid arguments, even though, as Austin claimed, they can't be true or false. Katz also argues that speech act theory is not a theory at all, but an assortment of observations about heterogeneous aspects of the performance of speech acts. He show…
Literal Meaning and Logical Theory
Language and other abstract objects
Propositional Structure and Illocutionary Force
Chomsky on Meaning
This paper critically examines Chomsky's position on meaning, considering its development over the years, its significance for other areas of grammatical theory and for related areas outside linguistics, and its methodological, empirical, and philosophical bases. Focus is on the points of disagreement between Chomsky's position and the author's, and it is argued that a close examination of the bases for Chomsky's position shows that it should be …
Semantics and Conceptual Change
The discussion of conceptual change that has taken place over the last two decades is peculiar in an important respect: meaning and change of meaning loom large in these discussions, yet no consideration seems to have been given to what linguistics says on these topics. It is almost perverse that in discussions of science carried out by philosophers of science, in which highly controversial claims concerning science turn on assumptions about mean…
Propositional structure and illocutionary force
Journal Article Book Reviews Get access Prepositional Structure and Illocutionary Force. By Jerrold J. Katz. (New York: Thomas Y. Crowell. 1977. Pp. xv + 249.) Jane Heal Jane Heal Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The Philosophical Quarterly, Volume 28, Issue 113, October 1978, Pages 366–368, https://doi.org/10.2307/2219099 Published: 01 October 1978
Impact of Different Comparison Sets on Evaluation of a New Subcompact Car Brand
To reduce the burden on subjects, a five-wave national telephone panel used to track the introduction of a new brand of subcompact automobile evaluated a different subset of competing brands. MANOVA revealed significant differences in the evaluation of both the new brand and an established brand
Propositional structure and illocutionary force
Is Necessity the Mother of Intension
The Structure of a Semantic Theory
This paper does not attempt to present a semantic theory of a natural language, but rather to characterize the form of such a theory. A semantic theory of a natural language is part of a linguistic description of that language. Our problem, on the other hand, is part of the general theory of language, fully on a par with the problem of characterizing the structure of grammars of natural languages. A characterization of the abstract form of a sema…
Propositional structure and illocutionary force
Journal Article Book Reviews Get access Prepositional Structure and Illocutionary Force. By Jerrold J. Katz. (New York: Thomas Y. Crowell. 1977. Pp. xv + 249.) Jane Heal Jane Heal Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The Philosophical Quarterly, Volume 28, Issue 113, October 1978, Pages 366–368, https://doi.org/10.2307/2219099 Published: 01 October 1978
Propositional structure and illocutionary force
Language and other abstract objects
Mentalism in Linguistics
Linguists who conceive of their science as a discipline which collects utterances and classifies their parts often pride themselves on their freedom from mentalism. But freedom from mentalism is an inherent feature of the taxonomic conception of linguistics, for, according to this conception, a linguist starts his investigation with observable physical events and at no stage imports anything else
Compositional Idioms
In this article we argue that there is a large class of expressions, typified by plastic flower, stuffed animal and kosher bacon , that have a unique semantics combining compositional, idiomatic and decompositional interpretation. These expressions are compositional because their constituents contribute their meanings to the meanings of the wholes; they are idiomatic because their interpretation involves assigning dictionary entries to nontermina…
Chomsky on Meaning
This paper critically examines Chomsky's position on meaning, considering its development over the years, its significance for other areas of grammatical theory and for related areas outside linguistics, and its methodological, empirical, and philosophical bases. Focus is on the points of disagreement between Chomsky's position and the author's, and it is argued that a close examination of the bases for Chomsky's position shows that it should be …
The Availability of What We Say
Analyticity, Necessity, and the Epistemology of Semantics
Contemporary philosophy standardly accepts Frege's conceptions of sense as the determiner of reference and of analyticity as (necessary) truth in virtue of meaning. This paper argues that those conceptions are mistaken. It develops referentially autonomous notions of sense and analyticity and applies them to the semantics of natural kind terms. The arguments of Donnellan, Putnam, and Kripke concerning natural kind terms are widely taken to refute…
Replies to Commentators
I feel very honored by this symposium and the critique of my work that it provides, particularly so because the contributors are, without exception, colleagues whose writings I know and esteem. And I am deeply grateful to my old friend Ernest Sosa for arranging this complex project with exemplary efficiency. As I observed on a recent occasion philosophers do not write to agree with one another, and so it does not surprise me that the contributors…
Is Necessity the Mother of Intension
Pragmatics and Presupposition
This paper examines the claim that the only adequate account of presupposition in natural language must be a contextual one, and that a purely semantic account of this notion is inadequate. We contend that exactly the opposite is the case: there is an adequate semantic account of presupposition in natural language, so that contextual accounts of this notion are unnecessary
Names Without Bearers
L'A. analyse le probleme de la signification des noms sans reference existante qui posent particulierement probleme aux successeurs de J. S. Mill: que penser du nom Pere Noel par exemple? L'A. fait appel aux theories semantiques de Kripke et Frege pour resoudre ce probleme
Semantics and Conceptual Change
The discussion of conceptual change that has taken place over the last two decades is peculiar in an important respect: meaning and change of meaning loom large in these discussions, yet no consideration seems to have been given to what linguistics says on these topics. It is almost perverse that in discussions of science carried out by philosophers of science, in which highly controversial claims concerning science turn on assumptions about mean…
Impact of Different Comparison Sets on Evaluation of a New Subcompact Car Brand
To reduce the burden on subjects, a five-wave national telephone panel used to track the introduction of a new brand of subcompact automobile evaluated a different subset of competing brands. MANOVA revealed significant differences in the evaluation of both the new brand and an established brand
Where things now stand with the analytic-synthetic distinction
Semantic Analysis
The Availability of What We Say
The Structure of a Semantic Theory
This paper does not attempt to present a semantic theory of a natural language, but rather to characterize the form of such a theory. A semantic theory of a natural language is part of a linguistic description of that language. Our problem, on the other hand, is part of the general theory of language, fully on a par with the problem of characterizing the structure of grammars of natural languages. A characterization of the abstract form of a sema…
An integrated theory of linguistic descriptions
A Reply to Dixon’s “A Trend in Semantics”
The Problem of Induction and Its Solution
The Problem of Induction and Its Solution
Mentalism in Linguistics
Linguists who conceive of their science as a discipline which collects utterances and classifies their parts often pride themselves on their freedom from mentalism. But freedom from mentalism is an inherent feature of the taxonomic conception of linguistics, for, according to this conception, a linguist starts his investigation with observable physical events and at no stage imports anything else
The Problem of Induction and Its Solution
Journal Article Book Reviews Get access The Problem of Induction and Its Solution. By Jerrold J. Katz. (Chicago and London : University of Chicago Press. 1962. Pp. xiv + 125. Price 30s or $3.75). R. H. Stoothoff R. H. Stoothoff Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The Philosophical Quarterly, Volume 15, Issue 58, January 1965, Pages 85–86, https://doi.org/10.2307/2218645 Published: 01 January 1965
The Structure of Language
Journal Article Critical Study Get access The Structure of Language : Readings in the philosophy of language. Edited by Jerry A. Fodor and Jerrold J. Katz. (Englewood Cliffs, N.J. : Prentice-Hall. 1964. [London, 1965.] Pp. xii + 612. Price £4). L. Jonathan Cohen L. Jonathan Cohen The Queen's College, Oxford Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The Philosophical Quarterly, Volume 16, Issue 63, April 1966, Pages …
The Structure of Language
The Synonymy of Actives and Passives
The Philosophy of Language
The Philosophy of Language
The Philosophy of Language
What the Linguist is Talking About
Where things now stand with the analytic-synthetic distinction
The Underlying Reality of Language and its Philosophical Import
On Innateness
Pragmatics and Presupposition
This paper examines the claim that the only adequate account of presupposition in natural language must be a contextual one, and that a purely semantic account of this notion is inadequate. We contend that exactly the opposite is the case: there is an adequate semantic account of presupposition in natural language, so that contextual accounts of this notion are unnecessary
Propositional structure and illocutionary force
Is Necessity the Mother of Intension
Propositional structure and illocutionary force
Journal Article Book Reviews Get access Prepositional Structure and Illocutionary Force. By Jerrold J. Katz. (New York: Thomas Y. Crowell. 1977. Pp. xv + 249.) Jane Heal Jane Heal Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The Philosophical Quarterly, Volume 28, Issue 113, October 1978, Pages 366–368, https://doi.org/10.2307/2219099 Published: 01 October 1978
Impact of Different Comparison Sets on Evaluation of a New Subcompact Car Brand
To reduce the burden on subjects, a five-wave national telephone panel used to track the introduction of a new brand of subcompact automobile evaluated a different subset of competing brands. MANOVA revealed significant differences in the evaluation of both the new brand and an established brand
Semantics and Conceptual Change
The discussion of conceptual change that has taken place over the last two decades is peculiar in an important respect: meaning and change of meaning loom large in these discussions, yet no consideration seems to have been given to what linguistics says on these topics. It is almost perverse that in discussions of science carried out by philosophers of science, in which highly controversial claims concerning science turn on assumptions about mean…
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