Steven Gross
Dados Biográficos
| ID | 5214567 |
|---|---|
| NOME | Steven Gross |
| PRENOMES | Steven |
| SOBRENOME | Gross |
| ASSINATURA | GROSS S |
| AFILIAÇÕES | Johns Hopkins University |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-4689-2107 |
| VERIFICADO | Sim |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 17 |
| TOTAL DE CITAÇÕES | 15 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 16 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 1 |
| PRIMEIRO ANO DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2000 |
| ANO MAIS RECENTE DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2024 |
| ÍNDICE H | 2 |
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
Building Resilience in Children and their Communities Following Disaster in a Developing Country
Meaning Without Representation
Meaning Without Representation
Much contemporary thinking about language is animated by the idea that the core function of language is to represent how the world is and that therefore the notion of representation should play a fundamental explanatory role in any explanation of language and language use. Leading thinkers in the field explore various ways this idea may be challenged as well as obstacles to developing various forms of anti-representationalism. Particular attentio…
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…
What's within? Nativism Reconsidered
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…
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…
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. …
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…
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…
What's within? Nativism Reconsidered
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…
Meaning Without Representation
Meaning Without Representation
Much contemporary thinking about language is animated by the idea that the core function of language is to represent how the world is and that therefore the notion of representation should play a fundamental explanatory role in any explanation of language and language use. Leading thinkers in the field explore various ways this idea may be challenged as well as obstacles to developing various forms of anti-representationalism. Particular attentio…
Building Resilience in Children and their Communities Following Disaster in a Developing Country
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
Philosophy (13 obras) · Computer Science (10 obras) · Linguistics (10 obras) · Epistemology (8 obras) · Psychology (8 obras) · Philosophy and Theoretical Science (6 obras) · Syntax, Semantics, Linguistic Variation (5 obras) · Political science (4 obras) · Analytic philosophy (3 obras) · Artificial Intelligence (3 obras)