Scott Soames is a professor of philosophy at the University of Southern California, and before that at Princeton University.
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Scott Soames specializes in the philosophy of language and the history of analytic philosophy.
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Scott Soames is well known for defending and expanding on the program in the philosophy of language started by Saul Kripke as well as being a major critic of two-dimensionalist theories of meaning.
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Scott Soames did his undergraduate work in philosophy at Stanford University and his graduate work at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in linguistics and philosophy.
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Scott Soames was elected a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 2010.
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Scott Soames specializes in the philosophy of language and the history of analytic philosophy.
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Scott Soames has published books and articles primarily on issues concerning truth, reference, and meaning.
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Later in his career, Scott Soames has been known for expanding on the anti-descriptivist philosophy of language developed by Saul Kripke in Naming and Necessity —see Scott Soames's Beyond Rigidity: The Unfinished Semantic Agenda of 'Naming and Necessity'.
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Scott Soames is a major critic of two-dimensionalist theories of semantics—see his Reference and Description: The Case against Two-Dimensionalism.
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