Scott Soames (soames)

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Bibliography

Graves, Christina, Katz, Jerrold J., Nishiyama, Yuji, Soames, Scott, Stecker, Robert and Tovey, Peter. 1973. “Tacit Knowledge.” The Journal of Philosophy 70: 318–330.
King, Jeffrey C., Soames, Scott and Speaks, Jeff. 2014. New Thinking about Propositions. Oxford: Oxford University Press, doi:10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199693764.001.0001.
Marmor, Andrei and Soames, Scott, eds. 2011. Philosophical Foundations of Language in the Law. Oxford: Oxford University Press.
Salmón, Nathan and Soames, Scott, eds. 1988. Propositions and Attitudes. Oxford: Oxford University Press.
Soames, Scott. 1974a. “Rule Orderings, Obligatory transformations, and Derivational Constraints.” Theoretical Linguistics 1(1-2): 116–138.
Soames, Scott. 1974b. “On the Nature of Grammars and Linguistic Theories.” Unpublished manuscript, Philosophy Department, Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
Soames, Scott. 1979. “A Projection Problem for Speaker Presuppositions.” Linguistic Inquiry 10: 623–666.
Soames, Scott. 1982. “How Presuppositions Are Inherited: A Solution to the Projection Problem.” Linguistic Inquiry 13: 483–545.
Soames, Scott. 1984a. “Linguistics and Psychology.” Linguistics and Philosophy 7(2): 155–179.
Soames, Scott. 1984b. “Semantics and Psychology.” in The Philosophy of Linguistics, edited by Jerrold J. Katz, pp. 204–226. Oxford: Oxford University Press.
Soames, Scott. 1984c. “What is a Theory of Truth?” The Journal of Philosophy 81: 411–429.
Soames, Scott. 1985. “Lost Innocence.” Linguistics and Philosophy 8(1): 59–71.
Soames, Scott. 1986. “Incomplete Definite Descriptions.” Notre Dame Journal of Formal Logic 27: 349–375.
Soames, Scott. 1987a. “Substitutivity.” in On Being and Saying: Essays for Richard Cartwright, edited by Judith Jarvis Thomson, pp. 99–132. Cambridge, Massachusetts: The MIT Press.
Soames, Scott. 1987b. “Direct Reference, Propositional Attitudes, and Semantic Content.” Philosophical Topics 15(1): 47–87. Republishedin Salmón and Soames (1988, 197–239) and in Ludlow (1996, 921–962).
Soames, Scott. 1989a. “Presupposition.” in Handbook of Philosophical Logic, Volume IV: Topics in the Philosophy of Language, edited by Dov M. Gabbay and Franz Guenthner, pp. 553–616. Synthese Library n. 167. Dordrecht: D. Reidel Publishing Co., doi:10.1007/978-94-009-1171-0.
Soames, Scott. 1989b. “Subject-Auxiliary Inversion and Gaps in Generalized Phrase Structure Grammar.” Linguistics and Philosophy 12(3): 373–382.
Soames, Scott. 1989c. “Semantics and Semantic Competence.” in Philosophical Perspectives 3: Philosophy of Mind and Action Theory, edited by James E. Tomberlin, pp. 575–596. Atascadero, California: Ridgeview Publishing Co.
Soames, Scott. 1989d. “Direct Reference and Propositional Attitudes.” in Themes from Kaplan, edited by Joseph Almog, John R. Perry, and Howard K. Wettstein, pp. 393–419. Oxford: Oxford University Press.
Soames, Scott. 1990a. “Pronouns and Propositional Attitudes.” Proceedings of the Aristotelian Society 90: 191–212.
Soames, Scott. 1990b. “Belief and Mental Representation.” in Information, Language and Cognition, edited by Philip P. Hanson. Vancouver Studies in Cognitive Science n. 1. Vancouver, British Columbia: University of British Columbia Press.
Soames, Scott. 1991. “The Necessity Argument.” Linguistics and Philosophy 14(5): 575–580.
Soames, Scott. 1992. “Truth, Meaning and Understanding.” Philosophical Studies 65: 17–35.
Soames, Scott. 1994. “Attitudes and Anaphora.” in Philosophical Perspectives 8: Logic and Language, edited by James E. Tomberlin, pp. 251–272. Oxford: Blackwell Publishers.
Soames, Scott. 1995a. “T-Sentences.” in Modality, Morality, and Belief: Essays in Honor of Ruth Barcan Marcus, edited by Walter Sinnott-Armstrong, Diana Raffman, and Nicholas Asher, pp. 250–273. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
Soames, Scott. 1995b. “Revisionism about Reference: A Reply to Smith (1995a).” Synthese 104(2): 190–216. Reprinted in Humphreys and Fetzer (1998, 13–36).
Soames, Scott. 1997a. “The Truth about Deflationism.” in Philosophical Issues 8: Truth, edited by Enrique Villanueva, pp. 1–44. Atascadero, California: Ridgeview Publishing Co., doi:10.2307/1522992.
Soames, Scott. 1997b. “Reply to Garcı́a-Carpintero (1997) and Richard (1997).” in Philosophical Issues 8: Truth, edited by Enrique Villanueva, pp. 79–93. Atascadero, California: Ridgeview Publishing Co.
Soames, Scott. 1998a. “The Modal Argument: Wide Scope and Rigidified Descriptions.” Noûs 32(1): 1–22.
Soames, Scott. 1998b. “Facts, Truth-Conditions, and the Skeptical Solution to the Rule-Following Paradox.” in Philosophical Perspectives 12: Language, Mind, and Ontology, edited by James E. Tomberlin, pp. 313–348. Oxford: Blackwell Publishers.
Soames, Scott. 1998c. “More Revisionism about Reference [reply to Smith (1995b)].” in The New Theory of Reference: Kripke, Marcus, and Its Origins, edited by Paul Humphreys and James H. Fetzer, pp. 65–88. Synthese Library n. 270. Dordrecht: Kluwer Academic Publishers.
Soames, Scott. 1999a. Understanding Truth. Oxford: Oxford University Press, doi:10.1093/0195123352.001.0001.
Soames, Scott. 1999b. “The Indeterminacy of Translation and the Inscrutability of Reference.” Canadian Journal of Philosophy 29(3): 321–370.
Soames, Scott. 2002a. Beyond Rigidity: The Unfinished Semantic Agenda of Naming and Necessity. Oxford: Oxford University Press, doi:10.1093/0195145283.001.0001.
Soames, Scott. 2002b. “Précis of Soames (1999a).” Philosophy and Phenomenological Research 65(2): 397–401.
Soames, Scott. 2002c. “Replies to Commentators [Gupta (2002; McGrath 2002; Tappenden 2002; Williamson 2002)].” Philosophy and Phenomenological Research 65(2): 429–452.
Soames, Scott. 2003a. Philosophical Analysis in the Twentieth Century, Volume 1: The Dawn of Analysis. Princeton, New Jersey: Princeton University Press.
Soames, Scott. 2003b. Philosophical Analysis in the Twentieth Century, Volume 2: The Age of Meaning. Princeton, New Jersey: Princeton University Press.
Soames, Scott. 2003c. “Higher-Order Vagueness for Partially Defined Predicates.” in Liars and Heaps: New Essays on Paradox, edited by J. C. Beall, pp. 128–150. Oxford: Oxford University Press.
Soames, Scott. 2003d. “Truth and Meaning: The Role of Truth in the Semantics of Propositional Attitude Ascriptions.” in Proceedings of the Seventh International Colloquium on Cognitive Science, edited by Kepa Korta and Jesús M. Larrazabal, pp. 21–44. Dordrecht: Kluwer Academic Publishers.
Soames, Scott. 2003e. “Understanding Deflationism.” in Philosophical Perspectives 17: Language and Philosophical Linguistics, edited by Dean W. Zimmerman and John Hawthorne, pp. 369–383. Oxford: Blackwell Publishers.
Soames, Scott. 2004a. “Reply to Pincock (2004).” Russell: The Journal of Bertrand Russell Studies, New Series 24(2): 172–177.
Soames, Scott. 2004b. “Reply to Ezcurdia (2004) and Gómez-Torrente (2004).” Crı́tica: Revista Hispanoamericana de Filosofı́a 36(108): 83–114.
Soames, Scott. 2004c. “Truth and Meaning.” in Truth, Rationality, Cognition, and Music, edited by Kepa Korta and Jesús M. Larrazabal, pp. 21–44. Philosophical Studies Series n. 102. Dordrecht: Springer.
Soames, Scott. 2005a. Reference and Description: The Case against Two-Dimensionalism. Princeton, New Jersey: Princeton University Press.
Soames, Scott. 2005b. “Beyond Rigidity: Reply to McKinsey (2005).” Canadian Journal of Philosophy 35(1).
Soames, Scott. 2005c. “Reference and Description.” in The Oxford Handbook of Contemporary Philosophy, edited by Frank Jackson and Michael A. Smith, pp. 397–426. Oxford Handbooks. Oxford: Oxford University Press, doi:10.1093/oxfordhb/9780199234769.001.0001.
Soames, Scott. 2005d. “Naming and Asserting.” in Semantics versus Pragmatics, edited by Zoltán Gendler Szabó, pp. 356–382. Oxford: Oxford University Press, doi:10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199251520.001.0001.
Soames, Scott. 2005e. “Analysis, Philosophical.” in The Encyclopedia of Philosophy, edited by Donald M. Borchert, 2nd ed. Basingstoke, Hampshire: Palgrave Macmillan.
Soames, Scott. 2005f. “Entailment, Presupposition, and Implicature.” in The Encyclopedia of Philosophy, edited by Donald M. Borchert, 2nd ed. Basingstoke, Hampshire: Palgrave Macmillan.
Soames, Scott. 2005g. “Propositional Attitudes: Issues in Semantics.” in The Encyclopedia of Philosophy, edited by Donald M. Borchert, 2nd ed. Basingstoke, Hampshire: Palgrave Macmillan.
Soames, Scott. 2006a. “Kripke, the Necessary Aposteriori, and the Two-Dimensionalist Heresy.” in Two-Dimensional Semantics: Foundations and Applications, edited by Manuel Garcı́a-Carpintero and Josep Macià, pp. 272–292. Oxford: Oxford University Press, doi:10.1093/oso/9780199271955.001.0001.
Soames, Scott. 2006b. “Understanding Assertion.” in Content and Modality. Themes from the Philosophy of Robert Stalnaker, edited by Judith Jarvis Thomson and Alex Byrne, pp. 222–250. Oxford: Oxford University Press.
Soames, Scott. 2006c. “The Philosophical Significance of the Kripkean Necessary Aposteriori.” in Philosophical Issues 16: Philosophy of Language, edited by Ernest Sosa, pp. 288–309. Oxford: Blackwell Publishers.
Soames, Scott. 2006d. “Précis of Soames (2005a).” Philosophical Studies 128(3): 645–654.
Soames, Scott. 2006e. “Reply to Critics [Linsky (2006), Sider and Braun (2006) and Richard (2006)].” Philosophical Studies 128(3): 711–738.
Soames, Scott. 2006f. “Précis of Soames (2003a).” Philosophical Studies 129(3): 605–608.
Soames, Scott. 2006g. “What is History for? Reply to Critics of Soames (2003a).” Philosophical Studies 129(3): 645–665.
Soames, Scott. 2006h. “Descriptive Names vs. Descriptive Anaphora [on Berger (2002)].” Philosophy and Phenomenological Research 72(3): 665–673.
Soames, Scott. 2006i. “Is H₂O a Liquid, or Water a Gas?” Philosophy and Phenomenological Research 72(3): 635–639.
Soames, Scott. 2007a. “The Substance and Significance of the Dispute over Two-Dimensionalism [reply to commentators of Soames (2005a)].” Philosophical Books 48(1): 34–49.
Soames, Scott. 2007b. “Actually.” Proceedings of the Aristotelian Society, Supplementary Volume 81: 251–277.
Soames, Scott. 2007c. “Précis of Soames (2003b).” Philosophical Studies 135(3): 425–428.
Soames, Scott. 2007d. “What We Know Now That We Didn’t Know Then: Reply to Critics of Soames (2003b) [Weatherson (2007), Byrne (2007) and Yablo (2007)].” Philosophical Studies 135(3): 461–478.
Soames, Scott. 2007e. “What are Natural Kinds?” Philosophical Topics 35(1–2): 329–342.
Soames, Scott. 2008a. “Truthmakers? [on Merricks (2007)].” Philosophical Books 49(4): 317–327.
Soames, Scott. 2008b. “Truth and Meaning: In Perspective.” in Midwest Studies in Philosophy 32: Truth and its Deformities, edited by Peter A. French and Howard K. Wettstein, pp. 1–19. Malden, Massachusetts: Wiley-Blackwell.
Soames, Scott. 2008c. “No Class: Russell on Contextual Definition and the Elimination of Sets.” Philosophical Studies 139(2): 213–218.
Soames, Scott. 2008d. “Why Propositions cannot be Sets of Truth-Supporting Circumstances.” The Journal of Philosophical Logic 37(3): 267–276.
Soames, Scott. 2009a. Philosophical Essays Volume I: Natural Language. What It Means & How We Use It. Princeton, New Jersey: Princeton University Press.
Soames, Scott. 2009b. Philosophical Essays Volume II: The Philosophical Significance of Language. Princeton, New Jersey: Princeton University Press.
Soames, Scott. 2009c. “Ontology, Analyticity, and Meaning: the Quine-Carnap Dispute.” in Metametaphysics. New Essays on the Foundations of Ontology, edited by David J. Chalmers, David Manley, and Ryan Wasserman, pp. 424–443. Oxford: Oxford University Press, doi:10.1093/oso/9780199546046.001.0001.
Soames, Scott. 2010a. What is Meaning? Princeton, New Jersey: Princeton University Press.
Soames, Scott. 2010b. Philosophy of Language. Princeton, New Jersey: Princeton University Press, doi:10.23943/princeton/9780691138664.001.0001.
Soames, Scott. 2010c. “Coordination Problems.” Philosophy and Phenomenological Research 81(2): 464–474.
Soames, Scott. 2011a. “True at [Comments on Cappelen and Hawthorne (2009)].” Analysis 71(1): 124–133.
Soames, Scott. 2011b. “Kripke on Epistemic and Metaphysical Possibility: Two Routes to the Necessary A Posteriori.” in Saul Kripke, edited by Alan Berger, pp. 78–99. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
Soames, Scott. 2011c. “What Vagueness and Inconsistency Tell Us about Interpretation.” in Philosophical Foundations of Language in the Law, edited by Andrei Marmor and Scott Soames, pp. 31–57. Oxford: Oxford University Press.
Soames, Scott. 2012a. “Propositions.” in The Routledge Companion to Philosophy of Language, edited by Gillian K. Russell and Delia Graff Fara, pp. 209–220. Routledge Philosophy Companions. London: Routledge.
Soames, Scott. 2012b. “Vagueness and the Law.” in The Routledge Companion to Philosophy of Law, edited by Andrei Marmor, pp. 95–108. Routledge Philosophy Companions. London: Routledge.
Soames, Scott. 2013a. “Cognitive Propositions.” in Philosophical Perspectives 27: Philosophy of Language, edited by John Hawthorne, pp. 479–501. Hoboken, New Jersey: John Wiley; Sons, Inc.
Soames, Scott. 2013b. “Two Versions of Millianism.” in Reference and Referring, edited by William P. Kabasenche, Michael O’Rourke, and Matthew H. Slater, pp. 83–118. Topics in Contemporary Philosophy n. 9. Cambridge, Massachusetts: The MIT Press, doi:10.7551/mitpress/9581.001.0001.
Soames, Scott. 2014a. Analytic Philosophy in America: And Other Historical and Contemporary Essays. Princeton, New Jersey: Princeton University Press, doi:10.23943/princeton/9780691160726.001.0001.
Soames, Scott. 2014b. The Analytic Tradition in Philosophy: The Founding Giants. Princeton, New Jersey: Princeton University Press.
Soames, Scott. 2014c. “The Place of Quine in Analytic Philosophy.” in A Companion to W.v.O. Quine, edited by Gilbert H. Harman and Ernest LePore, pp. 432–464. Blackwell Companions to Philosophy. Chichester: Wiley-Blackwell, doi:10.1002/9781118607992.
Soames, Scott. 2015a. Rethinking Language, Mind, and Meaning. Princeton, New Jersey: Princeton University Press.
Soames, Scott. 2015b. “David Lewis’s Place in Analytic Philosophy.” in A Companion to David Lewis, edited by Barry C. Loewer and Jonathan Schaffer, pp. 80–97. Blackwell Companions to Philosophy. Hoboken, New Jersey: John Wiley; Sons, Inc., doi:10.1002/9781118398593.
Soames, Scott. 2015c. “Précis of Soames (2014b).” Philosophical Studies 172(6): 1647–1650.
Soames, Scott. 2015d. “Reply to Critics [of Soames (2014b)].” Philosophical Studies 172(6): 1681–1696.
Soames, Scott. 2016a. “Rethinking Language, Mind, and Meaning.” Philosophical Studies 173(9): 2529–2532.
Soames, Scott. 2016b. “Yes, the Search for Explanation is All We Have.” Philosophical Studies 173(9): 2565–2573.
Soames, Scott. 2016c. “Propositions, the Tractatus, and ‘The Single Great Problem of Philosophy’ .” Crı́tica: Revista Hispanoamericana de Filosofı́a 48(143): 3–19.
Soames, Scott. 2016d. “Methodology in Nineteenth- and Early Twentieth-Century Analytic Philosophy.” in The Oxford Handbook of Philosophical Methodology, edited by Herman Cappelen, Tamar Szabó Gendler, and John Hawthorne, pp. 49–68. Oxford Handbooks. Oxford: Oxford University Press, doi:10.1093/oxfordhb/9780199668779.001.0001.
Soames, Scott. 2017. “For Want of Cognitively Defined Propositions: A History of Insights and Missed Philosophical Opportunities.” in Act-Based Conceptions of Propositional Content. Contemporary and Historical Perspectives, edited by Friederike Moltmann and Mark Textor, pp. 181–208. Oxford: Oxford University Press.
Soames, Scott. 2018. The Analytic Tradition in Philosophy, Volume 2: A New Vision. Princeton, New Jersey: Princeton University Press, doi:10.1007/s11098-019-01267-3.
Soames, Scott. 2019. “Propositions as Cognitive Acts.” Synthese 196(4): 1369–1383.
Soames, Scott. 2021. “Fruits of the Causal Theory of Reference.” in The Routledge Handbook of Linguistic Reference, edited by Stephen Biggs and Heimir Geirsson, pp. 82–93. Routledge Handbooks in Philosophy. London: Routledge.

Further References

Berger, Alan. 2002. Terms and Truth. Reference Direct and Anaphoric. Cambridge, Massachusetts: The MIT Press.
Byrne, Alex. 2007. “Soames on Quine and Davidson [on Soames (2003b)].” Philosophical Studies 135(3): 439–449.
Cappelen, Herman and Hawthorne, John. 2009. Relativism and Monadic Truth. Oxford: Oxford University Press, doi:10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199560554.001.0001.
Ezcurdia, Maite. 2004. “Pragmatic Attitudes and Semantic Competence [on Soames (2002a)].” Crı́tica: Revista Hispanoamericana de Filosofı́a 36(108): 55–82.
Garcı́a-Carpintero, Manuel. 1997. “On an Incorrect Understanding of Tarskian Truth Definitions.” in Philosophical Issues 8: Truth, edited by Enrique Villanueva, pp. 45–56. Atascadero, California: Ridgeview Publishing Co.
Gómez-Torrente, Mario. 2004. “Beyond Rigidity? Essentialist Predication and the Rigidity of General Terms [on Soames (2002a)].” Crı́tica: Revista Hispanoamericana de Filosofı́a 36(108): 37–54.
Gupta, Anil. 2002. “Partially Defined Predicates and Semantic Pathology [on Soames (1999a)].” Philosophy and Phenomenological Research 65(2): 402–409.
Humphreys, Paul and Fetzer, James H., eds. 1998. The New Theory of Reference: Kripke, Marcus, and Its Origins. Synthese Library n. 270. Dordrecht: Kluwer Academic Publishers.
Linsky, Bernard. 2006. “General Terms as Rigid Designators [on Soames (2005a)].” Philosophical Studies 128(3): 655–667.
Ludlow, Peter J., ed. 1996. Readings in the Philosophy of Language. Cambridge, Massachusetts: The MIT Press.
McGrath, Matthew. 2002. “Critical Notice of Soames (1999a).” Philosophy and Phenomenological Research 65(2): 410–417.
McKinsey, Michael. 2005. “Critical Notice of Soames (2002a).” Canadian Journal of Philosophy 35(1).
Merricks, Trenton. 2007. Truth and Ontology. Oxford: Oxford University Press, doi:10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199205233.001.0001.
Pincock, Christopher. 2004. “History of Philosophical Analysis [Review of Soames (2003a, 2003b)].” Russell: The Journal of Bertrand Russell Studies, New Series 24(2): 167–171.
Richard, Mark. 1997. “Deflating Truth.” in Philosophical Issues 8: Truth, edited by Enrique Villanueva, pp. 57–78. Atascadero, California: Ridgeview Publishing Co.
Richard, Mark. 2006. “Meaning and Attitude Ascriptions [on Soames (2005a)].” Philosophical Studies 128(3): 683–709. Reprinted in Richard (2013, 246–262).
Richard, Mark. 2013. Context and the Attitudes. Meaning in Context, Volume I. Oxford: Oxford University Press, doi:10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199557950.001.0001.
Sider, Theodore and Braun, David. 2006. “Kripke’s Revenge [on Soames (2005a)].” Philosophical Studies 128(3): 669–682.
Smith, Quentin. 1995a. “Marcus, Kripke, and the Origin of the New Theory of Reference.” Synthese 104(2): 179–189. Reprinted in Humphreys and Fetzer (1998, 3–12).
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Tappenden, Jamie. 2002. “Critical Notice of Soames (1999a).” Philosophy and Phenomenological Research 65(2): 418–421.
Weatherson, Brian. 2007. “Doing Philosophy with Words [on Soames (2003b)].” Philosophical Studies 135(3): 429–437.
Williamson, Timothy. 2002. “Soames on Vagueness [on Soames (1999a)].” Philosophy and Phenomenological Research 65(2): 422–428.
Yablo, Stephen. 2007. “Soames on Kripke [on Soames (2003b)].” Philosophical Studies 135(3): 451–460.