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Barbara C. Scholz

  • 2005–2006
  • Humanities
  • Frieda L. Miller Fellow
  • University of California, Santa Cruz
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Barbara C. Scholz is a philosopher of the cognitive sciences with a special interest in the philosophical issues relating to linguistics, such as the implications of different formal frameworks for syntactic theory, and psycholinguistics, particularly developmental psycholinguistics.

At the Radcliffe Institute, she will be working with Geoffrey K. Pullum and James Rogers on a joint project concerning the logical foundations of syntactic theory. The aim is to reconceptualize explicit theories of grammatical structure in model-theoretic terms rather than in the standard ways, which are based ultimately on proof theory, and to explore and clarify some of the consequences and implications of framing theories in this way.

Scholz received her MA and PhD degrees in philosophy from Ohio State University and also holds an MSc in cognitive science from the University of Edinburgh. She has held a National Endowment for the Humanities fellowship for study in the philosophy of mathematics; cotaught philosophy of linguistics at the graduate level at the Linguistic Institute, organized by the Linguistic Society of America; published in a number of journals and books on philosophy, linguistics, and cognitive science; and taught a range of courses in philosophy at a number of different colleges and universities.

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