SCOTT SOAMES
SCOTT SOAMES
USC School of Philosophy
3709 Trousdale Parkway
Los Angeles, CA 90089-0451
soames@usc.edu / (213) 740-0798
September 2018
EDUCATION
Stanford University, BA., 1968
Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Ph.D. Philosophy, 1976
ACADEMIC HONORS
Phi Beta Kappa, 1967
Danforth Graduate Fellow, 1971-76
Woodrow Wilson Graduate Fellow, 1971
AWARDS AND FELLOWSHIPS
American Academy of Arts and Sciences, elected in 2010.
Albert S. Raubenheimer Award for excellence in research, teching, and service, 2009. The Raubenheimer is the highest faculty honor of the College of Letters, Arts, and Sciences of the University of Southern California.
Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences Fellowship 1998-99 Academic Year.
John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation Fellowship 1989- 90. Title of Project: "Truth and Meaning"
Class of 1936 Bicentennial Preceptorship, Princeton University, 1982-1985
National Endowment for the Humanities Research Fellowship
for 1978-79. Title of Project: "The Philosophical Investigation of Linguistic Theory"
ACADEMIC POSITIONS
Director of the School of Philosophy, University of Southern California, August 2007 –
Distinguished Professor, Department of Philosophy, University of Southern California, 2011 –
Professor, Department of Philosophy, University of Southern California, 2004 - 2010
Professor, Department of Philosophy, Princeton University, July 1989 - 2004
Associate Professor, Department of Philosophy, Princeton University, July 1985 - June 1989
Assistant Professor, Department of Philosophy, Princeton University, September 1980 - June 1985
Assistant Professor, Department of Philosophy, Yale University, January 1976 - June 1980
Instructor, Linguistics Department, M.I.T., 1974-75
VISITING POSITIONS
Franklin Pease Garcia Visiting Professor, Department of Humanities, Catholic Pontifical University of Peru, Lima Peru, May 18 – June 25, 2015.
Visiting Professor, Department of Philosophy, Graduate School & University Center, City University of New York, Spring 1997.
Visiting Professor, Department of Philosophy, University of Washington, Summer 1989
Visiting Associate Professor, Department of Philosophy, University of Washington, January 1986 - June 1986, Summers 87, 88
EDITING
Editor-in-Chief, The Princeton Series in the Foundations of Contemporary Philosophy -- a series of state-of-the-art books on important areas of research in contemporary analytic philosophy, written by leading experts in their fields. Each book is a high-level introduction to advanced thinking in an area. Although major questions and approaches are covered, the books are neither neutral literature surveys, nor highly specialized contributions filling gaps in already well-known research programs. Instead, each presents the author’s unifying vision of a field or topic as it is exists today – its recent history and leading themes, its significant new developments, and its most important unanswered questions. The series premise is that with so much specialized work being done on so many topics, there is a need to articulate synoptic views of active research areas, with an eye to developing common understandings and charting future progress. The books are designed to appeal to advanced undergraduates and graduate students, to provide specialists with new ideas and unifying perspectives, and to offer comprehensible explanations of neighboring fields to other working professionals.
In addition to creating the series, choosing the authors and topics, and reviewing the manuscripts, I wrote the book in the Philosophy of Language. Other published books in the series include Philosophical Logic, Philosophy of Law, Truth, Epistemology, Philosophy of Physics, Philosophy of Biology, and Philosophy of Mathematics. Books under contract and currently in progress include Philosophy of Natural Science, Metaphysics, Philosophy of Mind, Decision Theory, Ethics, Metaethics, Moral Responsibility, Philosophy of Religion, and Moral Psychology and Agency.
International Advisory Board, Analytica, a journal for the study of analytic philosophy and its history, published by EL Centro do Estudios de Filosopfia Analitica, Universidad Nacional Mayor de San Marcos Press, Lima Peru.
Editorial Advisory Board for Philosophical Perspectives, 2004 -
Consulting Editor, Oxford International Encyclopedia of Linguistics, Second Edition, Oxford University Press, 2003. In addition to contributing 2 articles, I selected, oversaw and edited 10 others.
Associate Editor, Linguistics and Philosophy, Reidel Publishing Company, April 1993 - Sept. 1997.
Consulting Editor, Bradford Books, M.I.T. Press, 1982-1992.
Associate Editor, Linguistics and Philosophy, Reidel Publishing Company, September 1982-1989.
Topic Editor, Oxford International Encyclopedia of Linguistics, Oxford University Press, 1987-1989.
Editorial Board, Studies in Linguistics and Philosophy, Reidel Publishing Company, 1984-1989
PROFESSIONAL ACTIVITIES
Outside departmental reviewer and co-author of five-year report evaluating the Department of Philosophy, California State Polytechnic University at San Luis Obispo, November 2005, October, 2011.
Member of the Nominating Board for The Philosopher’s Annual, which selects the 10 best articles in philosophy published each year, 2011 -
Member of the board of evaluators for philosophy of language, the history of analytic philosophy, and for overall departmental strength, for the Leiter Report, 2009 -
Advisory Committee to the Program Committee, Eastern Division of the American Philosophical Association, 2000 -- 2007
Chair of Program Committee for Philosophy of Linguistics, 10th International Congress of Logic, Methodology and Philosophy of Science, 1995
Advisory Committee to the Program Committee, Eastern Division of the American Philosophical Association, 1993-97.
Visiting Committee for the Department of Linguistics and Philosophy, M.I.T., 1985-1996.
Program Committee of the 9th International Congress of Logic, Methodology and Philosophy of Science, Section 14, Linguistics and Philosophy of Language, 1991.
NEH Review Panel for Philosophy and Linguistics, Summer Seminar Program for College Teachers, 1980.
Representative from philosophy on the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation's "State of the Art Committee On Cognitive Science," 1978. I authored the section on the Philosophy of Language in the Committee's final report
FORTHCOMING PUBLICATIONS
BOOKS
The World Philosophy Made, Princeton: Princeton University Press.
El Surgimiento de la Filosophia Analytica (translation of the First Lima Lectures), Tecnos Press (a division of the Anaya Publishing Group in Spain) in cooperation with the University Press of the Pontifical Catholic University of Peru.
La Filosofia Analitica llega a la Mayoria de Edad: Wittgenstein, Schlick, Carnap, Godel, and Tarski (translation of the Second Lima Lectures), Tecnos Press (a division of the Anaya Publishing Group in Spain) in cooperation with the University Press of the Pontifical Catholic University of Peru.
ARTICLES
“Propositions” forthcoming in the Rutledge Handbook of Propositions, edited by Chris Tillman.
“Analytic Philosophy of Language: From First Philosophy to the Foundations of the Science of Language,” Cambridge History of Philosophy: 1945-2010, Becker and Thomson, eds. Cambridge University Press.
“Antonin Scalia’s Philosophy of Legal Interpretation,” Justice Scalia: Rhetoric and the Rule of Law, Brian Slocum, ed., Chicago University Press.
PUBLICATIONS
2014 – to the present
BOOKS
The Analytic Tradition in Philosophy, Vol. 2, A New Philosophical Vision,(Princeton and Oxford: Princeton University Press, 2017, 423 pages.
Rethinking Language, Mind, and Meaning: The Hempel Lectures, (Princeton University Press), 2015, 241 pages.
The Analytic Tradition in Philosophy, Vol. 1, The Founding Giants: Frege, Moore, Russell,(Princeton University Press), 2014, 657 pages
Analytic Philosophy in America, and Other Historical and Contemporary Essays, (Princeton University Press),2014, 350 pages.
New Thinking about Propositions, with Jeff Speaks, Jeff King (Oxford University Press), 2014, 252 pages.
Articles
“Rejecting Excluded Middle,” The Sorites Paradox, Oms and Zardini, eds., (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2018, 141-159.
“Cognitive Propositions in Realist Linguistics,” in Christina Behme and Martin Neef, eds., Essays on Linguistic Realism (John Benjamines: NL), 2018, 235-254.
“Kripke on Mind-Body Identity,” in Dale Jacquette, ed., The Bloomsbury Companion to the Philosophy of Consciousness, (London: Bloomsbury Publishing), 2018, 170-184.
“Deferentialism, Living Originalism, and the Constitution,” Brian Slocum, ed., The Nature of Legal Interpretation: What jurists can learn about legal interpretation from linguistics and philosophy,(Chicago: University of Chicago Press)2017, 218-240.
“Reply to Rosen,” in Brian Slocum, ed., The Nature of Legal Interpretation, (Chicago: University of Chicago Press), 2017, 272-281.
“The Changing Role of Language in Analytic Philosophy,” in Aaron Preston, ed., Analytic Philosophy: An Interpretive History, (New York: Routledge, 2017, 34-51.
Precis: Rethinking Language, Mind, and Meaning, PHILOSOPHICAL STUDIES, vol. 173, No. 9, 2016, 2579-2532.
“Yes, Explanation is All We Have,” PHILOSOPHICAL STUDIEs, Vol. 173, No. 9, 2016, 2565-2573.
“Propositions, the Tractatus, and “The Single Great Problem of Philosophy,” CRITICA, vol. 48, No. 143, 2016, 3-19.
“Propositions as Cognitive Acts,” SYNTHESE: An International Journal of Epistemology, Methodology, and Philosophy of Science,2016, published first on Aug., 2, 2016 in the “Online First” electronic version of the journal.
“Methodology in Late 19th and Early 20th Century Analytic Philosophy,” in Cappelen, Gendler, and Hawthorne, eds., The Oxford Handbook of Philosophical Methodology, (Oxford: Oxford University Press), 2016, 49-68. Reprinted in Soames, Analytic Philosophy in America, and Other Historical and Contemporary Essays, (Princeton and Oxford: Princeton U. Press),2014, 139-166.
“Précis”; Symposium on The Analytic Tradition in Philosophy, Volume 1. By Scott Soames (Princeton University Press, 2015), PHILOSOPHICAL STUDIES, 2015, vol. 172, No. 6, pp. 1647-1650.
“Reply to Critics” (Beaney, Kelly and McGrath, Pigden), Symposium on The Analytic Tradition in Philosophy, Volume 1. By Scott Soames (Princeton University Press, 2015), PHILOSOPHICAL STUDIES, vol. 172, No. 6, pp. 1681-1696.
“David Lewis’s Place in Analytic Philosophy,” in A Companion to David Lewis, edited by Barry Loewer and Jonathan Schaffer, Wiley-Blackwell, 2015, 80-98.
“Epistemic Intensions,” PHILOSOPHY AND PHENOMENOLOGICAL RESEARCH, LXXXIX, No. 1, 2014, 986-994.
“Preface,” Metasemantics, Alexis Burgess and Brett Sherman, eds., Oxford University Press, 2014.
“For Want of Cognitive Propositons: A History of Insights and Missed Philosophical Opportunities” in Analytic Philosophy in America, and Other Essays, Princeton University Press, 2014, 71-103.
“What is the Frege/Russell Analysis of Quantification?” in Analytic Philosophy in America, and Other Essays, Princeton University Press, 2014, 191-199.
“Language, Meaning, and Information: A Case Study on the Path from Philosophy to Science,” in Analytic Philosophy in America, and Other Essays, Princeton University Press, 2014, 60-70.
2009-2013
BOOKS
Philosophy of Language, The Princeton Series in the Foundations of Contemporary Philosophy, (Princeton and Oxford: Princeton University Press), 189 pages.
What is Meaning?, Soochow Lectures in Philosophy, (Princeton and Oxford: Princeton University Press), 2010, 132 pages.
Philosophical Essays – Vol. 1: Natural Language: What it Means and How We Use It (Princeton and Oxford: Princeton University Press), 2009, 428 pages.
Philosophical Essays-Vol. 2: The Philosophical Significance of Language, (Princeton and Oxford: Princeton University Press), 2009, 461 pages.
EDITED BOOK
With Andrei Marmor, Philosophical Foundations of Law and Language, (Oxford: Oxford University Pres), 2011.
Articles
“Cognitive Propositions,” PHILOSOPHICAL PERSPECTIVES: PHILOSOPHY OF LANGUAGE, Volume 27, 2013, 479-501.
“Quine’s Position in the History of Analytic Philosophy,” for A Companion to W.V.O. Quine, edited by Gilbert Harman and Ernie Lepore, Wiley-blackwell, 2013, 432-464.
“Deferentialism: A Post-Originalist Theory of Legal Interpretation,” FORDHAM LAW REVIEW, Vol. 82, No. 2, November 2013, 597-617.
“Two Versions of Millianism” in, Campbell, Joseph, Michael O’Rourke, and Harry Silverstein, eds, Reference and Referring, Topics in Philosophy, Vol 10 (Cambridge: MIT Press), 2012, 83-118.
“Vagueness and the Law,” in Andrei Marmor, ed., Routledge Companion to the Philosophy of Law,(New York: Routledge), 2012, 95-108.
“Propositions,” in Delia Graff Fara and Gillian Russell, eds., The Routledge Companion to the Philosophy of Language, Routledge Pres, 2012, 209-220.
“Toward a Theory of Interpretation,” THE NYU JOURNAL OF LAW AND LIBERTY, 2011, 6:231-259.
“Kripke on Epistemic and Metaphysical Possibility: Two Routes to the Necessary A Posteriori” for Saul Kripke, Alan Berger, ed., (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press), 2011, 78-99.
“What Vagueness and Inconsistency Tell us about Interpretation” Marmor and Soames, eds., Philosophical Foundations of Law and Language, (Oxford: Oxford University Press), 2011, 31-57.
“True at,” ANALYSIS, 71, 1, 2010, 124-133.
“Coordination Problems,” PHILOSOPHY AND PHENOMENOLOGICAL RESEARCH, Vol. 81, 2010, 464-474.
“What are Natural Kinds?” PHILOSOPHICAL TOPICS Vol. 35, Nos: 1 & 2, 2007, 329-342. Actually published 2010.
“Interpreting Legal Texts: What is, and what is not, special about the law,” in Philosophical Essays, Vol. 1, 2009, 403-423.
“The Possibility of Partial Definition,” in Philosophical Essays Volume 2, 2009, 362-381.
“The Gap between Meaning and Assertion: Why what we literally say often differs from what our words literally mean,” in Philosophical Essays, Vol. 1, 2009, 278-297.
“Ontology, Analyticity, and Meaning: The Quine-Carnap Dispute,” in Chalmers, David; Manley, David; and Wasserman, Brian; eds., Metametaphysics: New Essays at the Foundations of Ontology;(Oxford: Oxford University Press), 2009, 424-443.
“Meaning, Implicature, and Assertion,” in Dagfinn Follesdal and John Woods, eds., Logos and Language: Essays in Honor of Julius Moravcsik, (London: The Tribute Series, College Publications), 2009.
2004 – 2008
BOOK
Reference and Description: The Case Against Two-Dimensionalism, (Princeton and Oxford: Princeton University Press),2005,359 pages.
Articles
“Truth and Meaning – in Perspective,” in Peter French, ed., Truth and its Deformities, MIDWEST STUDIES IN PHILOSOPHY, Vol. XXXII, 2008, 1-19. Also in Philosophical Essays, Volume 1.
“Truthmakers?”, Symposium Truth and Ontology by Trenton Merricks, PHILOSOPHICAL BOOKS, 49, 4, 2008, 317-27.
“Analytic Philosophy in America,” in The Oxford Handbook of American Philosophy, Cheryl Misak, ed., (Oxford University Press), 2008, 449-481.
“Drawing the Line Between Meaning and Implicature – and Relating both to Assertion”, NOUS,42:3, 2008, 529-554; also in Philosophical Essays, Volume 1.
“Why Propositions Can’t be Sets of Truth-Supporting Circumstances,” JOURNAL OF PHILOSOPHICAL LOGIC, 37, 2008, 267-276; also in Philosophical Essays, Volume 2.
“No Class: Russell on Contextual Definition and the Elimination of Sets,” PHILOSOPHICAL STUDIES, 139, 2008, 213-218.
Précis for symposium on Philosophical Analysis in the Twentieth Century, Volume 2. By Scott Soames (Princeton University Press, 2003), PHILOSOPHICAL STUDIES, 135,3, 2007, 425-428.
“What we know now that we didn’t know then: Reply to Critics” for symposium on Philosophical Analysis in the Twentieth Century, Vol. 2. By Scott Soames (Princeton University Press, 2003), PHILOSOPHICAL STUDIES, 135, 2007, 461-478.
“The Quine-Carnap Debate on Analyticity and Ontology,” SOOCHOW JOURNAL OF PHILOSOPHICAL STUDIES, Taipei Taiwan, Number 16, August 2007.
“Actually,” PROCEEDINGS OF THE ARISTOTELIAN SOCIETY, Supplementary Vol. LXXXI, 2007, 251-277. Also in Philosophical Essays, Volume 2.
“Saul Kripke” BRITANNICA CONCISE ENCYCLOPEDIA, 2007, Encyclopedia Britannica Online:http..ebc/article–259648.
“The Substance and Significance of the Dispute over Two-Dimensionalism: Reply to Dever, Jackson, and Lowe,” Symposium on my Reference and Description (Princeton University Press, 2005), in PHILOSOPHICAL BOOKS, vol. 48, January 2007, 34-49.
“Ambitious Two-Dimensionalism,” in Mathew Davidson, ed., On Sense and Direct Reference: A Reader in the Philosophy of Language, (McGraw-Hill), 2007, 690-718. Also in Philosophical Essays, Volume 2.
“The Philosophical Significance of the Kripkean Necessary Aposteriori,” PHILOSOPHICAL ISSUES, Vol. 16, E. Sosa and E, Villanueva (eds.), (Blackwell Publishing Co.), 2006, 287-309. Also in Philosophical Essays, Volume 2.
“Understanding Assertion,” in Judith Jarvis Thompson and Alex Byrne, eds., Content and Modality: Themes from the Philosophy of Robert Stalnaker, (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2006), 222-250. Also in Philosophical Essays, Volume 2.
“Descriptive Names vs Descriptive Anaphora,” Symposium on Terms and Truth, by Alan Berger (MIT Press, 2002), in PHILOSOPHY AND PHENOMENOLOGICAL RESEARCH, LXXII, 3, 2006, 665-673.
“Is H2O a liquid, or Water a gas?,” PHILOSOPHY AND PHENOMENOLOGICAL RESEARCH, Vol. 72, No. 3, 2006, 635-639.
“Hacker’s Complaint,” PHILOSOPHICAL QUARTERLY, Vol. 56, No. 224, July 2006, pp. 426-435.
Précis” for Symposium on Philosophical Analysis in the Twentieth Century, Vol. 1: The Dawn of Analysis by Scott Soames (Princeton University Press, 2003), PHILOSOPHICAL STUDIES, Vol. 129, No. 3, 2006, 605-608.
“What Is History For?: Reply to Critics of The Dawn of Analysis” for Symposium on Philosophical Analysis in the Twentieth Century, Volume 1, (Princeton University Press, 2003),PHILOSOPHICAL STUDIES, Vol. 129, No. 3, 2006, 645-665.
“Saul Kripke, the Necessary Aposteriori, and the Two Dimensionalist Heresy” in M. Garcia-Carpintero and J. Macia, eds., The Two-Dimensional Framework: Foundations and Applications, (Oxford: Oxford University Press), 2006, 272-292.
“Précis” for Symposium on Beyond Rigidity, by Scott Soames (Oxford University Press, 2002), in PHILOSOPHICAL STUDIES, 128, 2006, 645 – 654.
“Reply to Critics,” (Linsky, Richard, Braun and Sider) for Symposium on Beyond Rigidity in PHILOSOPHICAL STUDIES, 128, 2006, 711 – 738.
“Philosophical Analysis,” Encyclopedia of Philosophy, Second Edition, Macmillan, 2006, Volume 1, 144 – 157.
“Propositional Attitudes,” Encyclopedia of Philosophy, Second Edition, Macmillan, 2006, Volume 8, 74 – 79.
“Entailment, Presupposition, and Implicature,” Encyclopedia of Philosophy, Second Edition, Macmillan, 2006, Volume 3, 250–254.
“Reply to Pincock,” _RUSSELL_: THE JOURNAL OF BERTRAND RUSSELL STUDIES, Vo. 25, No. 2, winter 2005-06, 172-7.
“Why Incomplete Definite Descriptions do not Defeat Russell’s Theory of Descriptions,” TEOREMA, Vol. XXIV, No. 3, 2005, 7-30. TEOREMA is a Spanish Journal, the issue is special edition commemorating 100th anniversary of “On Denoting.” Also in Philosophical Essays, Volume 1.
“Reference and Description”, Oxford Handbook of Contemporary Analytic Philosophy, Frank Jackson and Michael Smith, editors, (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2005, 397- 425.
“Beyond Rigidity: Reply to McKinsey,” CANADIAN JOURNAL OF PHILOSOPHY, March 2005, 169-178.
“Reply to Ezcurdia and Gomez-Torrente,” Response to review essays on my Beyond Rigidity (New York: Oxford University Press) 2002, in the Spanish / English journal CRITICA, Vol. 36, Issue 108, December, 2004, 83-114.
“Knowledge of Manifest Natural Kinds,” FACTA PHILOSOPHICA, Vol. 6, No. 2, 2004, 159-181. Also in Philosophical Essays, Volume 2.
“Naming and Asserting” in Semantics vs. Pragmatics edited by Zoltan Szabo, (New York and Oxford: Oxford University Press), 2004, 356-382. Also in Philosophical Essays, Volume 1.
1999 - 2003
BOOKS
Philosophical Analysis in the Twentieth Century, Volume 1: The Dawn of Analysis, (Princeton and Oxford: Princeton University Press), 2003, 430 pages.
Philosophical Analysis in the Twentieth Century, Volume 2: The Age of Meaning (Princeton and Oxford: Princeton University Press), 2003, 501 pages.
Beyond Rigidity: The Unfinished Semantic Agenda of Naming and Necessity, (New York: Oxford University Press) 2002, 379 pages.
Understanding Truth, (New York: Oxford University Press)1999, 268 pages.
Articles
“Higher-Order Vagueness for Partially Defined Predicates,” in Liars and Heaps: New Essays on Paradox, edited by J.C. Beall and Michael Glanzberg, (New York and Oxford: OUP) 2003, 128-50. Also in Philosophical Essays, Volume 2.
“Understanding Deflationism,” PHILOSOPHICAL PERSPECTIVES, Vol. 17, 2003, 369-383. Also in Philosophical Essays, Volume 2.
“Truth and Meaning: The Role of Truth in the Semantics of Propositional Attitude Ascriptions,” in Proceedings of the 7th International Colloquium on Cognitive Science, edited by Kepa Korta and Jesus M. Larrazabal, (Dordrecht: Kluwer),2003, 21-44.
“Philosophy of Language,” Overview article in the Oxford International Encyclopedia of Linguistics, Second Edition, William Frawley Editor in Chief, (Oxford and New York: Oxford University Press), 2003, 268-275.
“Pragmatics and Contextual Semantics,” Overview article in the Oxford International Encyclopedia of Linguistics, Second Edition, William Frawley Editor in Chief, (Oxford and New York: Oxford University Press), 2003, 379-381.
“Précis to Understanding Truth”, and “Replies to Gupta, McGrath, Tappenden, and Williamson,” Book Symposium in PHILOSOPHY AND PHENOMENOLOGICAL RESEARCH Vol. LXV, No. 2, September 2002, 397-401 and 429-452.
"The Indeterminacy of Translation and the Inscrutability of Reference", THE CANADIAN JOURNAL OF PHILOSOPHY, Volume 29, Number 3, 1999, 321–370.
1994 - 1998
"The Modal Argument: Wide Scope and Rigidified Descriptions," NOUS, Vol. XXXII, No. 1, 1998, 1-22. Also in Philosophical Essays, Volume 2.
"Facts, Truth Conditions, and the Skeptical Solution to the Rule-Following Paradox", in PHILOSOPHICAL PERSPECTIVES, Vol. 12, Language, Mind and Ontology, James Tomberlin, ed., Blackwell, 1998, 313–348. Also in Philosophical Essays, Vol. 2.
"Skepticism about Meaning: Indeterminacy, Normativity, and the Rule Following Paradox", THE CANADIAN JOURNAL OF PHILOSOPHY, Supplementary Volume 23, (1997), Meaning and Reference, Ali A. Kazmi (ed.), 1998, 211–249. Also in Philosophical Essays, Volume 2.
"More Revisionism about Reference," in The New Theory of Reference, P. W. Humphreys and J. H. Fetzer (eds.), Kluwer,
1998, 65-87.
"The Truth about Deflationism," PHILOSOPHICAL ISSUES, Vol. 8,
Enrique Villanueva (ed.), Ridgeview Publishing Co., Atascadero California, 1997, 1-44.
"Reply to Garcia-Carpintero and Richard," PHILOSOPHICAL ISSUES, Vol. 8, Enrique Villanueva (ed.), Ridgeview Publishing Co., Atascadero California, 1997, 79-93.
"Beyond Singular Propositions?," THE CANADIAN JOURNAL OF PHILOSOPHY, Vol. 25, No. 4, 1995, 515-550.
"T-Sentences," in Modality, Morality, and Belief: Essays in
Honor of Ruth Barcan Marcus, edited by Asher, Raffman, and
Sinnott-Armstrong, Cambridge University Press, 1995, 250-270.
“Revisionism about Reference: A Reply to Smith”, SYNTHESE, 104/2, 1995, 191-216.
"Donnellan's Referential / Attributive Distinction," PHILOSOPHICAL STUDIES, 73, 1994, 149-168. Also in Philosophical Essays, Volume 1.
"Attitudes and Anaphora, PHILOSOPHICAL PERSPECTIVES, Vol. 8, Philosophy of Language and Logic, edited by James Tomberlin, Ridgeview Publishing Co., 1994, 251-272. Also in Philosophical Essays, Volume 2.
1989 – 1993
"Introduction to Section on Truth and Meaning," in Basic
Topics in the Philosophy of Language: a collection of readings edited by R. M. Harnish, Harvester Wheatsheaf, 1993, 493-516.
"Truth, Meaning, and Understanding," PHILOSOPHICAL STUDIES, 65, 1992, 17-35. Also in Philosophical Essays, Volume 1.
"The Necessity Argument," LINGUISTICS AND PHILOSOPHY, Vol. 14, 1991, 575-580. Also in Philosophical Essays, Vol. 1.
"Philosophy of Language: An Overview," Oxford International Encyclopedia of Linguistics, Vol. 3, William Bright editor-in-chief, 1991, 188-92.
"Pronouns and Propositional Attitudes," in THE PROCEEDINGS OF THE ARISTOTELIAN SOCIETY, Vol. XC, 1990, 191-212.
"Belief and Mental Representation," in Vancouver Studies in Cognitive Science, Volume 1: Information, Language and Cognition, edited by Philip Hanson, University of British Columbia Press, 1990, 217-246. Also in Philosophical Essays, Volume 2.
"Semantics and Semantic Competence," PHILOSOPHICAL PERSPECTIVES, Volume 3: Philosophy of Mind and Action Theory, 1989, 575-596. Also in Philosophical Essays, Volume 1.
"Direct Reference and Propositional Attitudes," in Themes from Kaplan, edited by Joseph Almog, John Perry, and Howard Wettstein, Oxford University Press, 1989, 393-419.
Chapter on Presupposition in Handbook of Philosophical Logic, Volume 4: Topics in the Philosophy of Language, edited by D. Gabbay and F. Guenthner, Reidel, 1989, 553-616. Also in Philosophical Essays, Volume 1.
"Subject-Auxiliary Inversion and Gaps in Generalized Phrase Structure Grammar," LINGUISTICS AND PHILOSOPHY, Volume 12, No. 3, 1989, 373-82.
Review of Generalized Phrase Structure Grammar by G. Gazdar, E. Klein, G. Pullum and I. Sag, THE PHILOSOPHICAL REVIEW, Volume XCVIII, No. 4, 1989, 556-566.
Review of Collected Papers by Gareth Evans, THE JOURNAL OF PHILOSOPHY, LXXXVI, No. 3, 1989, 141-156.
1984 – 1988
EDITED BOOK
Propositions and Attitudes, Oxford Readings in Philosophy, (New York: Oxford University Press) 1988. Edited, with an introduction, by Nathan Salmon and Scott Soames.
Articles
Review of Knowing Who, by Stephen Boer and William Lycan, THE JOURNAL OF SYMBOLIC LOGIC, Volume 53, No. 2, 1988, 657-659.
"Substitutivity," in On Being and Saying: Essays for Richard L. Cartwright, edited by Judith J. Thomson, MIT Press 1987, 99-132.
"Direct Reference, Propositional Attitudes, and Semantic Content," PHILOSOPHICAL TOPICS, Vol. 15, No. 1, 1987, 47-87. Also in Philosophical Essays, Volume 2.
Review of Logic as Grammar, by Norbert Hornstein, JOURNAL OF PHILOSOPHY, LXXXIV, No. 8, 1987, 447-455.
"Incomplete Definite Descriptions," NOTRE DAME JOURNAL OF FORMAL LOGIC, Volume 27, No. 3, 1986, 349-375. Also in Philosophical Essays, Volume 1.
"Peacocke on Explanation in Psychology," MIND AND LANGUAGE, Volume 1, No. 4, 1986, 372-387.
"Semantics and Psychology," in THE PHILOSOPHY OF LINGUISTICS, edited by Jerrold J. Katz, Oxford University Press, 1985, 204-226. Also in Philosophical Essays, Volume 1.
"Lost Innocence," LINGUISTICS AND PHILOSOPHY, Volume 8, No. 1, 1985, 59-71.
"Linguistics and Psychology," LINGUISTICS AND PHILOSOPHY, Vol. 7, no. 2, 1984, 155-179. Also in Philosophical Essays, Vol. 1.
"What is a Theory of Truth?", THE JOURNAL OF PHILOSOPHY, LXXXI, No. 8, 1984, 411-429. Also Philosophical Essays, Vol. 2.
1979 – 1983
BOOK
Syntactic Argumentation and the Structure of English, co-authored with David M. Perlmutter, (Berkeley and Los Angeles: University of California Press) 1979, 602 pages.
Articles
"Generality, Truth Functions, and Expressive Capacity in the Tractatus," PHILOSOPHICAL REVIEW, XCII, No. 4, 1983, 573-589.
"How Presuppositions are Inherited: A Solution to the Projection Problem," LINGUISTIC INQUIRY, 13, 3, 1982, 483-545.
Review of Philosophy and Language by Steven Davis, Deep Structure by Douglas Stalker, and Noam Chomsky: A Philosophic Overview by Justin Leiber, in METAPHILOSOPHY, Volume 11, number 2, 1980, 155-164.
"A Projection Problem for Speaker Presupposition," LINGUISTIC INQUIRY, Volume 10, Number 4, 1979, 623-666. Also in Philosophical Essays, Volume 1.
Review of Hans Reichenbach's Philosophy of Grammar by W.E. McMahon, LANGUAGE, Volume 55, number 9, 1979, 690-692.
Pre-1979
BOOK:
An Examination of Frege’s Theory of Presupposition and Contemporary Alternatives, 1976 MIT Dissertation, (Cambridge Mass.: MIT Working Papers in Linguistics) 2001.
Articles:
Review of Presupposition by David Cooper and Presuppositions and Non-Truth-Conditional Semantics by Deirdre Wilson, THE PHILOSOPHICAL REVIEW, Volume LXXXVI, No. 2, 1977, 274-278.
"Rule Ordering, Obligatory Transformations, and Derivational Constraints," THEORETICAL LINGUISTICS, Vol. 1, 1974, 116-138.
REPRINTED AND TRANSLATED PAPERS
1. “For Want of Cognitive Propositions: A History of Insights and Missed Philosophical Opportunities” in Moltmann and Textor, Act-Based Conceptions of Propositional Content: Historical and Contemporary Perspectives, Oxford University Press.
2. “Beyond Singular Propositions,” Canadian Journal of Philosophy, Virtual (Online) Issue, July 2, 2013. This issue contains the editors selection of 22 of the best articles published in the journal from its founding in 1971 to its 40th anniversary in 2011.
3. “Kripke on Epistemic and Metaphysical Possibility: Two Routes to the Necessary Aposteriori,” translated as “Kripke sobre a possibilidade epistemica e metafisica: As duas rotas para o necessario a posteriori” Revista Skepsis, no. 9, vol 6, 2013, 160-188.
4. “Truth, Meaning, and Understanding,” in Andriy Synytsya, ed., in Anthology of Contemporary Analytic Philosophy, Lviv: Ukraine: Litopys Puslishing House, 2013.
5. "Understanding Assertion", reprinted in Asa Kasher, ed., Pragmatics: Critical Concepts II, Vol. 1, Routledge, 2011.
6. "Drawing the Line between Meaning and Implicature – and Relating Both to Assertion", reprinted in A. Kasher, ed., Pragmatics: Critical Concepts II, Vol. 3, Routledge, 2011.
7. “The Possibility of Partial Definition,” is reprinted in Richard Dietz and Sebastiano Moruzzi, eds., Cuts and Clouds: Vagueness, its Nature and its Logic, Oxford University Press, 2010, 46-62.
8. “Interpreting Legal Texts: What is Special about the Law and What is Not,” has been translated into Spanish, and reprinted in Revista De La Facultad De Derecho De Mexico, no. 235, January to June, 2009
9. “The Necessary Aposteriori,” from chapter 15 of Philosophical Analysis in the Twentieth Century, Vol. 2, (Princeton University Press, 2003), reprinted Mathew Davidson, ed., On Sense and Direct Reference: A Reader in the Philosophy of Language, (McGraw-Hill), 2007,950-999.
10. “Rigid Designation and its Lessons for the Semantic Contents of Proper Names,” from chapter 2 of Beyond Rigidity (Oxford University Press, 2002), reprinted Mathew Davidson, ed., On Sense and Direct Reference: A Reader in the Philosophy of Language, (McGraw-Hill), 2007, 654-689.
11. “Substitutivity,” is reprinted in On Sense and Direct Reference: A Reader in the Philosophy of Language, (McGraw-Hill), 2007, 327-356.
12. “The Indeterminacy of Translation and the Inscrutability of Reference,” is reprinted in Meaning, edited by Mark Richard, Blackwell, 2003.
13a. "The Modal Argument: Wide Scope and Rigidified Descriptions," reprinted in The Philosopher's Annual, Vol. 21, edited by Patrick Grim, Peter Ludlow, Gary Mar, and Ken Baynes, Ridgeview Publishing Co., Atascadero, California, 2000, 221–246. The volume contains articles selected as the ten best to appear in print in 1998.
13b. “The Modal Argument” is also translated and published in The Philosophy of Language, edited by Richard Cedzo and Marian Zouhar, Kalligram publishers, Bratislava, Slovakia, 2005.
14. "Incomplete Definite Descriptions," is reprinted in
Definite Descriptions: A Reader, edited by Gary Ostertag, M.I.T. Press, 1998, 275-308.
15. "Revisionism about Reference: A Reply to Smith," is
reprinted in The New Theory of Reference, P. W. Humphreys and J. H. Fetzer (eds.) Kluwer, 1998, 13-35.
16. “Direct Reference and Propositional Attitudes,” Spanish trans. by Dr. J. A. Robles, “Referencia Directa y Actitudes Proposicionales,” in Pensamiento y Lenguaje: Problemas en la atribucion de actitudes proposicionales, Margarita Valdes, (ed.), Instituto de Investigaciones Filosoficas UNAM, Mexico, 1996.
17. "The Necessity Argument," is reprinted in Noam Chomsky: Critical Assessments, Part 1, Volume 2, edited by Carlos P. Otero, London: Routledge, 1994, 671-676.
18. "Linguistics and Psychology," is reprinted in Understanding and Sense, Vol. 1, edited by Christopher Peacocke, Dartmouth, 1993, 219 - 243.
19a. "How Presuppositions are Inherited: A Solution to the Projection Problem," is reprinted in Pragmatics, edited by Steven Davis, Oxford University Press, 1991, 428-470.
19b. “How Presuppositions are Inherited” is also reprinted in Pragmatics: Critical Concepts, volume 4, edited by Asa Kasher, Routledge, 1998.
20a. "Direct Reference, Propositional Attitudes, and Semantic Content" is reprinted in Propositions and Attitudes, edited by Nathan Salmon and Scott Soames, Oxford University Press, 1988, 197-239.
20b. “Direct Reference, Propositional Attitudes, and Semantic Content” is also reprinted in Readings in the Philosophy of Language, edited by Peter Ludlow, MIT Press, 1997, 921–962.
20c. “Direct Reference, Propositional Attitudes, and Semantic Content” is reprinted in Philosophy of Language, Critical Concepts in Philosophy, Vol. 3, edited by A. P. Martinich, Routledge, 2008.
20d. “Direct Reference, Propositional Attitudes, and Semantic content” is also translated and published in The Philosophy of Language, edited by Richard Cedzo and Marian Zouhar, Kalligram publishers, Bratislava, Slovakia.
21a. "Semantics and Semantic Competence" is reprinted in Cognition and Representation, edited by Stephen Schiffer and Susan Steele, Westview Press, 1988, 185-207.
21b. “Semantics and Semantic Competence,” is also reprinted in The Philosopher's Annual, Vol. 11, edited by Patrick Grim, Gary Mar, and Peter Williams, Ridgeview Press, Atascadero, CA., 1990, 121–160. This volume contains articles selected as -- "the ten best to appear in print in 1988."
21c. “Semantics and Semantic Competence” is reprinted in Meaning, edited by Mark Richard, Blackwell, 2003, and in Reading Philosophy of Language, edited by Jennifer Hornsby and Guy Longworth, Blackwell, 2005.
21d. “Semantics and Semantic Competence” is reprinted in Philosophy of Language, Critical Concepts in Philosophy, Vol. 2, edited by A. P. Martinich, Routledge, 2008.
22. "Lost Innocence" is reprinted in The Philosopher's Annual, Vol. 8, edited by Patrick Grim, Christopher J. Martin, and Patricia Athay, Ridgeview Press, Atascadero, Calif., 1987, 260-272. This volume contains articles selected as --"the ten best to appear in print in 1985."
23a. "What is a Theory of Truth?" has been translated into German and published as "Was ist eine Theorie der Wahrheit?" in Der Wahrheitsbegriff, edited by L. B. Puntel, Eissenschaftliche Buchgesellschaft, Darmstadt, 1987, 256-283.
23b. "What is a Theory of Truth?" is also reprinted in the volume, Theories of Truth, edited by Paul Horwich, The International Research Library of Philosophy, vol. 8, Dartmouth Publishing Co.,1994.
23c. “What is a Theory of Truth” is also reprinted in The Nature of Truth: Classic and Contemporary Perspectives, edited by Michael P. Lynch, M.I.T. Press, 2001, 397–418.
23d. “What is a Theory of Truth” has also been translated into Hungarian by Laszio Kocsis, in Laszio Kocsis, ed., Az Igazsag Elmeletei (Theories of Truth), L’Harmattan 2014.
24. "Generality, Truth Functions, and Expressive Capacity in the Tractatus" is reprinted in The Philosophy of Wittgenstein Vol. 2: Logic and Ontology, edited by John V. Canfield, Garland Publishing Company, New York and London, 1986, 317-333.
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