Scott Soames

Scott Soames ( born August 11, 1945) is an American professor of philosophy. He is an expert in the philosophy of language and the history of analytic philosophy. He is known for his defense of a philosophy of language program in the tradition of Saul Kripke and his criticism of the Zweidimensionalismus in the theory of meaning.

Biography

Scott Soames studied at Stanford University and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology ( MIT), linguistics and philosophy. At MIT, he earned his Ph.D. degree in 1976.

Soames taught at Yale University (1976-1980) and Princeton University (1980-2004) .. Since 2004 he is professor at the University of Southern California.

Work

Soames has published books and articles, which mainly deal with the issues of truth, reference and meaning. With Nathan Salmon, he published the book Propositions and Attitudes 1989. Soames extended the anti- deskriptivistische philosophy of language program by Saul Kripke. He is one of the main critics of two-dimensional semantics ..

His two -volume history of analytic philosophy ( Philosophical Analysis in the Twentieth Century, 2003) grew out of a regularly recited in Princeton lecture. The work was received very controversial. Thus, in Notre Dame Philosophical Review, the blog of Brian Weatherson, the journal The Philosophical Quarterly, and Soames ' own website.

Selected Publications

  • (1989 ) Propositions and Attitudes, ed. Nathan Salmon ( Oxford University Press).
  • (1999) Understanding Truth ( Oxford University Press).
  • (2002) Beyond Rigidity: The Unfinished Semantic Agenda of ' Naming and Necessity ' (Oxford University Press).
  • (2003) Philosophical Analysis in the Twentieth Century, Volumes 1 and 2 ( Princeton University Press).
  • (2005) Reference and Description: The Case against Two - Dimensionalism ( Princeton University Press).

Papers

  • (1973 ) " Tacit Knowledge ", The Journal of Philosophy, Vol 70, No. 11, 318-330 (with Christina Graves, Jerrold J. Katz, Yuji Nishiyama, Robert plug, Peter Tovey ).
  • (1983), " generality, Truth Functions, and Expressive Capacity in the Tractatus ", The Philosophical Review, Vol 92, No. 4, 573-589.
  • (1984 ) "What is a Theory of Truth? ", The Journal of Philosophy, Vol 81, No. 8, 411-429.
  • (1989 ) " Semantics and Semantic Competence ', Philosophical Perspectives, Vol 3, 575-596.
  • (1994 ) "Attitudes and Anaphora ", Philosophical Perspectives, Vol 8, 251-272.
  • (1997) " The Truth about Deflationism ," Philosophical Issues, Vol 8, 1-44.
  • (1998) "The Modal Argument: Wide Scope and rigidified Descriptions", Nous, Vol 32, No. 1, 1-22.
  • (1998) "Facts, Truth Conditions, and the Skeptical Solution to the Rule -Following Paradox ', Nous, Vol 32, 313-348.

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