James Higginbotham

James Higginbotham FBA (17 August 1941 – 25 April 2014) was a distinguished professor of Linguistics and Philosophy at the University of Southern California. Beforehand, he was Professor of Linguistics at Massachusetts Institute of Technology, and at the University of Oxford, where he was head of the Linguistics Department.

Prof. Higginbotham edited the Journal of Philosophy (along with others) when he was on the faculty at Columbia University, one of the most authoritative philosophy journals in USA. He was also the editor of the OUP series in cognitive science and the associate editor of Pragmatics and Cognition.

James Higginbotham, like Sir Peter Strawson, had a reputation in Oxford as a very strict teacher. Noam Chomsky, speaking about James Higginbotham, used to say that he was a very constructive teacher.

Capone, Alessandro. 2001. Review of Higginbotham, J., Pianesi, F. Varzi, A, a cura di ‘Speaking of Events’, “Linguistics”, 39/ 6, 1179-1192.

A very positive review of Higginbotham (2009) is forthcoming in the Australian Journal of Linguistics:

"This book is tough reading, but it is very worth-while studying, as it provides all required formalism and theoretical apparatus for events semantics and provides adequate and genial solutions to well-known problems. This is a book by an author who deserves a place together with scholars like Chomsky, Davidson, Shoemaker, Parsons, and few others".

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