Katz and Grice

R. E. Dale, who's written his brilliant PhD dissertation, "The theory of meaning" for CUNY, under Schiffer, and who offers historical hindsights onto the work of Grice vis a vis early twentieth-century philosophers such as Lady Welby, notes of his education:

"I studied under Katz in New York as well [as with Fodor], but found my work going in the direction of Schiffer, and so Schiffer became my advisor. I learned an incredible amount from them both."

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For the record, then, as we pay a tribute to Jerrold J. Katz, semanticist and philosopher, who died in Manhattan on 7 February 2002. He was Distinguished Professor in "Philosophy and Linguistics" at the Graduate Center of the City University of New York.
--- Katz was citing Grice early enough. Some hits:

1987. "Common sense in semantics", in E. Lepore.
--- a reference to Grice (1968) (Grice's 1967 William James lecture on utterer's meaning, sentence-meaning, and word meaning -- on meaning cited on pp. 165ff.
---- Also Grice/Strawson 'In defense' cited on p. 176 ff.

1976. Katz/Langendoen.
Cited by Gazdar 1979:42. The "special notion of conversational implicature" can be eliminated:

"Someone conversationally implicates P in saying S in the context C just in
case (a) PRAGM [hypothetical function] assigns the reading R as its output
for a structural description of S & appropriate info about C & (b) the
proposition represented by R -> [semantically -- truth-conditionally --
entails] P."

Gazdar comments: [sadly?], this "obliterates" Grice's "fundamental
distinction between implicating and explicating" (saying).

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A bibliography of J. J. Katz.

1957.

Review of Chomksy, _Syntactic Structures_,
Lg 33

1962.
The problem of induction and its solution.

1962. JA Fodor/Katz.

1963. JA Fodor/Katz.

1964. JA Fodor/Katz.

1964. Semi-sentences. In Katz/Fodor.

1964. & P M Postal. An integrated theory of linguistic ability. Cambridge,
Mass: Research Monog. 26.

1964. Analyticity and contradiciton in natural language. In Fodor/Katz

1964. JA Fodor/JJK, eds.

1965. Semantic theory and the meaning of 'good'. Journal of Philosophy 61.

1966. The philosophy of language. Harper.

1967. Recent issues in semantic theory. FL 3

1967. Some remarks on Quine on analyticity. JL 64
(cfr. H. P. Grice, 'In defense of a dogma')

1969. Unpalatable recipes for buttering parsnips. Journal of Philosophy 65.

1970. Interpretive semantics meets Frankenstein. FL 7

1970. Interpretive vs. generative semantics. LI 2
(i.e. Chomsky-Jackendoff vs. Mccawley-Ross

[deep structure = semantic interpretation]

1971. The philosophical relevance of linguistic theory. In Searle.

1971. Linguistic philosophy. Allen & Unwin.

1971. Generative semantics _is_ interpretive semantics. LI 2

1971. The underlying reality of language and its philosophical impact.

1972. Semantic theory. Harper.

1972. Some things Kuhn never told us. Cited by Chomksy in Peters.

1972. Logic and language: an examination of recent criticisms of
intentionalism.

1973. On defining presupposition. LI 4.

1973. Tacit knowledge. Journal of Philosophy 70.

1974. Mentalism in Linguistics. Lg 40

1974. Meaning postulates & semantic theory. With R. Nagel. FL 11 cfr. Carnap.

[Indeed, it would seem as if Katz/Fodor's Markerese draws directly from Carnap, somehow?]

1974.
Where things now stand with the analytic/synthetic distinction?
Synthese 28.

1975. A. N. Chomsky/Katz

1975. The neo-classical theory of reference. In French & al.

1975. Logic and language: a defense of intensionalism. Minesotta St Ph Sc 8

1976. Pragmatics and presupposition. Lg 52 (with DT Langendoen)

1976. T G Bever, JJK and DT Langendoen.

1977. Propositional structure & illocutionary force:
a study of the contribution of sentence meaning
to speech acts. Harverster.

1977. A proper theory of names. Phil St. 31

1977. TG Bever & JJK.

1978. The theory of semantic representation. Erkenntnis 13.

1979. A solution to the projection problem of presupposition.
In Dinnen/Oh

1980. Chomsky on meaning. Lg 56.

1981. Language & other abstract objects. Blackwell.

1981. The linguist as mathematician. Platonist linguistic theory.
Linguistic theory and general scientific methodology.

1981. Literal meaning and linguistic theory. Journal of Philosophy 77.

1985. Cogitations. OUP.

1985. ed. The philosophy of linguistics. Oxford Readings in Philosophy.
Includes his own, 'Some notes on what linguistics is about'.

1987. Common sense in semantics. In E. Lepore, New directions in semantics.
Academic.

--- So we know who we should be thinking (even if he isn't necessarily -- or not just necessarily) when R. E. Dale aptly refers to anti-psychologisms, platonisms, and this or that 'departure' from Frege... Or not!