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James Higginbotham
(1941 - 2014)

PhD: Columbia UniversityLast affiliation: University of Southern California
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  • University of Southern California
    School of Philosophy
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Columbia University
Department of Philosophy
PhD, 1973
Los Angeles, California, United States of America
Areas of Interest
Philosophy of Language
Logic and Philosophy of Logic
Philosophy of Cognitive Science
  • All publications (75)
  •  278
    Conceptual competence
    Philosophical Issues 9 149-162. 1998.
    Concept Possession
  •  190
    Fodor's concepts
    In Contents, Atascadero: Ridgeview. pp. 25-37. 1995.
    Atomist Theories of Concepts
  •  40
    Fodor's Concepts
    Philosophical Issues 6 25-37. 1995.
  •  139
    Belief and Logical Form
    Mind and Language 6 (4): 344-369. 1991.
    Logical Form
  •  122
    Bechtel on the possibility of propositions
    Journal of Philosophy 75 (11): 661-664. 1978.
    Propositions, Misc
  • The Handbook of Contemporary Semantic Theory
    Oxford: Oxford University Press. 1996.
    Philosophy of Linguistics
  •  164
    Remembering, imagining, and the first person
    In Alex Barber (ed.), Epistemology of language, Oxford University Press. pp. 496--533. 2003.
    Context and Context-DependenceFirst-Person Contents
  •  252
    On linguistics in philosophy, and philosophy in linguistics
    Linguistics and Philosophy 25 (5): 573-584. 2002.
    After reviewing some major features of theinteractions between Linguistics and Philosophyin recent years, I suggest that the depth and breadthof current inquiry into semanticshas brought this subject into contact both with questionsof the nature of linguistic competence and with modern andtraditional philosophical study of the nature ofour thoughts, and the problems of metaphysics.I see this development as promising for thefuture of both subjects.
    Knowledge of LanguageSemantics
  •  129
    Jackendoff's conceptualism
    Behavioral and Brain Sciences 26 (6): 680-681. 2003.
    In this commentary, I concentrate upon Ray Jackendoff's view of the proper foundations for semantics within the context of generative grammar. Jackendoff (2002) favors a form of internalism that he calls “conceptualism.” I argue that a retreat from realism to conceptualism is not only unwarranted, but even self-defeating, in that the issues that prompt his view will inevitably reappear if the latter is adopted.
    The Status of Linguistic Theories
  •  49
    Competence With Demonstratives
    Noûs 36 (s16): 1-16. 2002.
    Semantics
  •  203
    Visions and Revisions: A Critical Notice of Noam Chomsky’s The Minimalist Program
    Mind and Language 13 (2). 1998.
    The Minimalist Program
  •  181
    Sententialism: The thesis that complement clauses refer to themselves
    Philosophical Issues 16 (1). 2006.
    Aspects of ReferenceAttitude Ascriptions, Misc
  •  1
    On the Nature of Language: A Basic Exposition
    In Manuel Garcia-Carpintero & Max Kolbel (eds.), The Continuum companion to the philosophy of language, Continuum International. 2012.
    Public LanguageKnowledge of LanguageIdiolects
  •  91
    Montague Grammar by Barbara H. Partee, ed (review)
    Journal of Philosophy 77 (5): 278-312. 1980.
    Semantics
  •  201
    Grammatical form and logical form
    Philosophical Perspectives 7 173-196. 1993.
    SyntaxLogical Form
  •  74
    Comments on J. Hintikka's paper: "Game-theoretical semantics: insights and prospects"
    Notre Dame Journal of Formal Logic 23 (3): 263-271. 1982.
    Logic and Philosophy of Logic
  •  188
    Conditionals and compositionality
    Philosophical Perspectives 17 (1). 2003.
    Conditionals, MiscCompositionality
  •  46
    Tense, indexicality, and consequence
    In Jeremy Butterfield (ed.), The Arguments of Time, Oup/british Academy. pp. 197--215. 2006.
    SemanticsAspects of Time
  •  219
    Remarks on the metaphysics of linguistics
    Linguistics and Philosophy 14 (5). 1991.
    SemanticsThe Status of Linguistic TheoriesKnowledge of LanguageMethodology of Linguistics, MiscPsych…Read more
    SemanticsThe Status of Linguistic TheoriesKnowledge of LanguageMethodology of Linguistics, MiscPsychological Reality in LinguisticsCompetence and Performance
  •  243
    On semantics
    Linguistic Inquiry 16 547--593. 1985.
    Semantics
  •  201
    Language and Idiolects
    In Ernie Lepore & Barry C. Smith (eds.), The Oxford Handbook of Philosophy of Language, Oxford University Press. pp. 140--50. 2005.
    An idiolectal conception of language is compatible with a substantive role for external things — objects, including other people — in the characterization of idiolects. Illustrations of this role are not hard to come by. The point of looking outward from the individual is pretty evident for the case of reference to perceptually encountered objects: had the world been significantly different, a person with the same molecular history would have acquired, and called by the same familiar names, diff…Read more
    An idiolectal conception of language is compatible with a substantive role for external things — objects, including other people — in the characterization of idiolects. Illustrations of this role are not hard to come by. The point of looking outward from the individual is pretty evident for the case of reference to perceptually encountered objects: had the world been significantly different, a person with the same molecular history would have acquired, and called by the same familiar names, different physical and other concepts. An idiolectal conception of language is by no means committed, and has some reason to be opposed, to internalism, and to individualism in Burge's sense; that is, to the view that the organization of the body, abstracting from external things, is constitutive of any linguistically significant aspect of language.
    Idiolects
  •  197
    Elucidations of meaning
    Linguistics and Philosophy 12 (4). 1989.
    Semantic Phenomena, Misc
  •  67
    Why is sequence of tense obligatory?
    In Gerhard Preyer & Georg Peter (eds.), Logical Form and Language, Oxford University Press. pp. 207--227. 2002.
    Temporal Expressions
  •  79
    Truth and Reference as the Basis of Meaning
    In Michael Devitt & Richard Hanley (eds.), The Blackwell Guide to the Philosophy of Language, Wiley-blackwell. 2008.
    This chapter contains sections titled: Beginning with Frege Davidson's Program The Constitution of Meaning Theoretical Prospects.
    Semantic Theories
  •  120
    Penrose's Platonism
    Behavioral and Brain Sciences 13 (4): 667-668. 1990.
    Philosophy of Cognitive ScienceGödelian Arguments Against AI
  •  79
    Noam Chomsky's Linguistic Theory
    Social Research: An International Quarterly 49. 1982.
    The Status of Linguistic Theories
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    Is Grammar Psychological?
    In L. S. Cauman, Isaac Levi, Charles D. Parsons & Robert Schwartz (eds.), How Many Questions?, Hacket. pp. 170--179. 1983.
    Knowledge of Language
  •  71
    Peacocke on Explanation in Psychology
    Mind and Language 1 (4): 358-361. 1986.
    Computationalism in Cognitive Science
  •  109
    Cresswell M. J.. Entities and indices. Studies in linguistics and philosophy, vol. 41. Kluwer Academic Publishers, Dordrecht, Boston, and London, 1990, xi + 274 pp (review)
    Journal of Symbolic Logic 58 (2): 723-725. 1993.
    Modal Logic
  •  44
    The Paradox of the Liar (review)
    Journal of Philosophy 69 (13): 398-401. 1972.
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