Barbara Scholz

Barbara Caroline Scholz (August 29, 1947 – May 14, 2011) was an American philosopher of science, with a particular focus on the philosophy of cognitive science and linguistics. She taught at the University of Toledo, at the University of California, Santa Cruz, and at San Jose State University. She was a fellow of the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study at Harvard University in 2005–2006. From 1994 until her death in 2011, she was married to linguist Geoff Pullum.

Early life and education Barbara Scholz was born on August 29, 1947, in Troy, Ohio.

Throughout her education, she obtained five degrees in various fields. Scholz earned a B.A. in Philosophy and Religion from Urbana College in 1973, followed by an M.Div. from Andover Newton Theological School in 1976. She taught community college courses in Columbus, Ohio, before deciding to focus on philosophy. Scholz went on to receive an M.A. (1985) and Ph.D. (1990) from Ohio State University , where Stewart Shapiro was her primary doctoral adviser. During her Ph.D. studies, she also completed an M.Sc. in Cognitive Science from the University of Edinburgh in 1988.

Selected publications

Scholz, Barbara C. (1994). Rescuing the institutional theory of art. Journal of Aesthetics and Art Criticism 52 (1994), 309–325. Pullum, Geoffrey K. and Barbara C. Scholz (2002). Empirical assessment of stimulus poverty arguments. The Linguistic Review 19, 9–50. Scholz, Barbara C. and Geoffrey K. Pullum (2002). Searching for an argument for linguistic nativism. (A reply to six critical commentary articles on `Empirical assessment of stimulus poverty arguments'.) The Linguistic Review 19, nos. 1–2, 185–224. Scholz, Barbara C.; Francis Jeffry Pelletier; and Geoffrey K. Pullum (2011). Philosophy of linguistics. In Edward N. Zalta (ed.), The Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy, Metaphysics Research Lab, CSLI, Stanford University. Winter 2011 edition (December 21). http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/linguistics/