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Barbara C. Scholz (B.A., Urbana College; M.Div., Andover Newton; M.A., Ohio State; M.Sc., Edinburgh; Ph.D., Ohio State) is an Honorary Fellow and occasional Lecturer in the Department of Philosophy.

Research Interests

Philosophy of the cognitive and linguistic sciences, especially philosophy of linguistics, philosophical aspects of language acquisition, the history of linguistic thought, and the role of mathematics in formalization of linguistic theories.

Teaching

Wittgenstein; Philosophy of Science; Philosophy of Language

Publications

• Systematicity and natural language syntax’ by Geoffrey K. Pullum and Barbara C. Scholz, Croatian Journal of Philosophy, 7 (2007): 375--402.

• ‘Tracking the origins of transformational generative grammar’ by Barbara C. Scholz and Geoffrey K. Pullum, Journal of Linguistics, 43 (2007): 701-723.
• ‘Irrational nativist exuberance’ by Barbara C. Scholz and Geoffrey K. Pullum, In Contemporary Debates in Cognitive Science, edited by Robert J. Stainton, 59--80. Oxford: Basil Blackwell (2006)
• ‘Contrasting applications of logic in natural language syntactic description’ by Geoffrey K. Pullum and Barbara C. Scholz, in Petr Hájek, Luis Valdés-Villanueva, and Dag Westerståhl (eds.), Logic, Methodology and Philosophy of Science: Proceedings of the Twelfth International Congress, 481-503. London: College Publications, Department of Computer Science, KCL, The Strand, London WC2R 2LS, U.K. (2005)
• ‘Gold's theorems and the logical problem of language acquisition’ by Barbara C. Scholz. Journal of Child Language 31 (2004) 959--961.
• ‘Learning antecedents for anaphoric one’ by Nameera Akhtar, Maureen Callanan, Geoffrey K. Pullum, and Barbara C. Scholz. Cognition 93 (2004), 141--145
• ‘Philosophy of linguistics’, by Barbara C. Scholz, Encyclopedia of Cognitive Science, Volume 3, 593-597, London: Macmillan Reference/Nature Publishing Group (2003)
• ‘Linguistic models’ by Geoffrey K. Pullum and Barbara C. Scholz Chapter 5 of Mind, Brain, and Language: Multidisciplinary Perspectives, ed. by Marie T. Banich and Molly Mack, 113--141. Mahwah, NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum (2003)
• ‘Empirical assessment of stimulus poverty arguments’ (lead article in a special double issue on linguistic nativism) by by Geoffrey K. Pullum and Barbara C. Scholz The Linguistic Review 19: 9--50 (2002)
• ‘Searching for an argument for linguistic nativism’ by Barbara C. Scholz and Geoffrey K. Pullum, The Linguistic Review 19: 185-224 (2002)
• ‘Innateness’ by Barbara C. Scholz (Commissioned article in the `Words' series.) Nature 415, 14 February 2002, 739
• ‘On the distinction between generative-enumerative and model-theoretic syntactic frameworks’ by Barbara C. Scholz and Geoffrey K. Pullum. In Logical Aspects of Computational Linguistics: 4th International Conference (Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence, 2099), ed. by Philippe de Groote, Glyn Morrill, and Christian Retoré, 17-43. Berlin: Springer Verlag

Previous Positions

• Department of Philosophy, University of Toledo, Ohio (1989-1994)
• Department of Philosophy, University of California, Santa Cruz (1994-1996; 2005-2007)
• Department of Philosophy, University of Queensland (autumn 1997)
• Department of Philosophy, San Jose State University (1998-2005)
• Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study, Harvard University (2005-2006)

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