kaye@umbsky.cc.umb.edu
Larry Kaye currently teaches at the Philosophy Department at the University of Massachusetts at Boston. He specializes in Philosophy of Cognitive Science and Philosophy of Language and also has interests in issues concerning realism/anti-realism/skepticism and color. Much of his work concerns the Language of Thought Hypothesis. In a recent manuscript, "The Language of Thought", Kaye argues that our linguistic thoughts occur in spoken/natural languages against arguments (mostly from Fodor) to the contrary.
Education:
M.A. Univ. WI-Milwaukee 1984; Ph.D. MIT 1990. Kaye studied with Block, Stalnaker, Chomsky and, briefly, with Fodor.
Publications:
"Semantic Compositionality: Still the Only Game in Town", _Analysis_, 53, no. 1 (1993) pp. 17-23.
"Are Most of Our Concepts Innate?", _Synthese_, 95, no. 2 (1993) pp. 187-217.
"The Computational Account of Belief", _Erkenntnis_ (forthcoming).
Working Papers:
"The Languages of Thought" (under review).
"A Scientific Psychologistic Foundation for Theories of Meaning" (under review)
"How to Avoid Holism and Draw the Analytic/Synthetic Distinction (with a Naturalistic, Causal Role Theory of Content)" (draft)