All Outputs (15)

Correspondence and Construction: The Representational Theory of Mind and Internally Driven Classificatory Schemes (2023)
Book Chapter

There is a tension at the heart of much contemporary work in philosophy of psychology—specifically, within representational theories of mind. On the one hand, the central insight of this tradition is that mental and behavioral processes are understoo... Read More about Correspondence and Construction: The Representational Theory of Mind and Internally Driven Classificatory Schemes.

Reference and morphology* (2022)
Journal Article

The dominant tradition in analytic philosophy of language views reference as paradigmatically enabled by the acquisition of words from other speakers. Via chains of transmission, these words connect the referrer to the referent. Such a picture assume... Read More about Reference and morphology*.

Balancing Evolution and Acquisition in Theoretical Linguistics (2022)
Book Chapter

The history of generative linguistics is a history of a tension between, on the one hand, incorporating all the complexity suggested by detailed descriptions of natural languages and the innate knowledge humans bring to the task of acquisition, and o... Read More about Balancing Evolution and Acquisition in Theoretical Linguistics.

(What) Can Deep Learning Contribute to Theoretical Linguistics? (vol 31, pg 617, 2021) (2022)
Journal Article

Unfortunately, the following article https://doi.org/10.1007/s11023-021-09571-w was by mistake included in another issue but it is part of the Special Issue on Machine learning: Prediction Without Explanation? Gabe Dupre “(What) Can Deep Learning... Read More about (What) Can Deep Learning Contribute to Theoretical Linguistics? (vol 31, pg 617, 2021).

Theory Interpretation and Observation: The case of Generative grammar (2022)
Book Chapter

Public language, private language, and subsymbolic theories of mind (2022)
Journal Article

Language has long been a problem-case for subsymbolic theories of mind. The reason for this is obvious: Language seems essentially symbolic. However, recent work has developed a potential solution to this problem, arguing that linguistic symbols are... Read More about Public language, private language, and subsymbolic theories of mind.

Realism and Observation: The View from Generative Grammar (2022)
Journal Article

Abstract Standard proposals of scientific anti-realism assume that the methodology of a scientific research program can be endorsed without accepting its metaphysical commitments. I argue that the distinction between competence, the rules governing o... Read More about Realism and Observation: The View from Generative Grammar.

Linguistics and the explanatory economy (2021)
Journal Article

I present a novel, collaborative, methodology for linguistics: what I call the ‘explanatory economy’. According to this picture, multiple models/theories are evaluated based on the extent to which they complement one another with respect to data cove... Read More about Linguistics and the explanatory economy.

(What) Can Deep Learning Contribute to Theoretical Linguistics? (2021)
Journal Article

Deep learning (DL) techniques have revolutionised artificial systems’ performance on myriad tasks, from playing Go to medical diagnosis. Recent developments have extended such successes to natural language processing, an area once deemed beyond such... Read More about (What) Can Deep Learning Contribute to Theoretical Linguistics?.

Empiricism, syntax, and ontogeny (2021)
Journal Article

Generative grammarians typically advocate for a rationalist understanding of language acquisition, according to which the structure of a developed language faculty reflects innate guidance rather than environmental influence. This proposal is develop... Read More about Empiricism, syntax, and ontogeny.

Modeling modeling (2021)
Journal Article

Linguistic intuitions: Evidence and method (2021)
Journal Article

Representation in Cognitive Science by Nicholas Shea (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2018). (2021)
Journal Article

What would it mean for natural language to be the language of thought? (2020)
Journal Article

AbstractTraditional arguments against the identification of the language of thought with natural language assume a picture of natural language which is largely inconsistent with that suggested by contemporary linguistic theory. This has led certain p... Read More about What would it mean for natural language to be the language of thought?.

Idealisation in semantics: truth-conditional semantics for radical contextualists (2020)
Journal Article

In this paper, I shall provide a novel response to the argument from context-sensitivity against truth-conditional semantics. It is often argued that the contextual influences on truth-conditions outstrip the resources of standard truth-conditional a... Read More about Idealisation in semantics: truth-conditional semantics for radical contextualists.