{"id":281,"date":"2023-06-01T16:23:35","date_gmt":"2023-06-01T23:23:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/live-usc-dornsife.pantheonsite.io\/scottsoames\/?page_id=281"},"modified":"2024-06-05T10:14:18","modified_gmt":"2024-06-05T17:14:18","slug":"selected-publications","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/dornsife.usc.edu\/scottsoames\/selected-publications\/","title":{"rendered":"Selected Publications"},"content":{"rendered":"\n\n \n \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n
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Is There a Social Science of Morality?<\/a>
\n<\/a><\/strong>in\u00a0Character in the Future of the American University,\u00a0<\/i>James Wilburn, ed., Los Angeles: Pepperdine University Press, 2023 159-182.<\/p>\n

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Cognitive Propositions, Truth Functions, and the\u00a0Tractatus<\/i><\/a>
\n<\/a><\/strong>Inquiry,\u00a0<\/i>published online on January 17, 2022.<\/p>\n

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Viennese Lessons: Wittgenstein, Carnap, and Schlick<\/a>
\n<\/a><\/strong>Vienna Circle Institute Yearbook<\/i>, 26,\u00a0The Social-Ethical Dimension of Knowledge: The Mission of Logical Empiricism<\/i>. Christian Dambock and Adam T. Tuboli, eds., Springer; 2022, pp. 219-234.<\/p>\n

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Plural Agents, Private Intentions, and Legal Interpretation
\n<\/a><\/strong>Journal of Contemporary Legal Issues<\/em>, Vol 23, Sept\/Oct 2021 149-154<\/p>\n

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Philosophy of Language in the 21st Century<\/a><\/strong>
\n<\/a><\/strong>Cambridge Handbook of Philosophy and Language, edited by Piotr Stalmaszczyk.<\/em><\/p>\n

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Anti-Descriptivism 2.0<\/a>
\n<\/a><\/strong>Appears in a symposium in\u00a0Philosophical Studies (2022)<\/em>\u00a0on the book\u00a0Roads to Reference<\/em>, by Mario Gomez-Torrente.<\/p>\n

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To What Should Originalists be Faithful<\/a>
\n<\/a><\/strong>SSRN Research Papers<\/em>
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The Fruits of Causal Theory of Reference<\/a><\/strong>
\n<\/a><\/strong>The Routledge Handbook of Linguistic Reference<\/em>, edited by Heimir Geirsson, 2020, 82-93.<\/p>\n

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Originalism and Legitimacy<\/a>
\n<\/a><\/strong>The Georgetown Journal of Law and Public Policy (Vol. 18, 2020)<\/em>.<\/p>\n

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What We Know about Numbers and Propositions and How We Know It<\/a>
\n<\/a><\/strong>Organon F \u2014 International Journal of Analytic Philosophy (2020)<\/i>.<\/em><\/p>\n

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Analytic Philosophy of Language: From First Philosophy to the Foundations of the Science of Language<\/a>
\n<\/a><\/strong>History of Philosophy: 1945-2010,Becker and Thomson, eds. Cambridge University Press.<\/em><\/p>\n

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Antonin Scalia\u2019s Philosophy of Legal Interpretation<\/a><\/em><\/strong>Justice Scalia: Rhetoric and the Rule of Law (2019),\u00a0<\/em>Brian Slocum, ed., Chicago University Press<\/p>\n

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Review of Frege\u2019s Detour,<\/i>by John Perry<\/a><\/strong>in the Notre Dame Philosophical Review of Books<\/i>; 2020.06.35; ndpr.nd.edu”<\/p>\n

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Rejecting Excluded Middle<\/a><\/strong>The Sorites Paradox, Oms and Zardini, eds., (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2018, 141-159.<\/p>\n

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Cognitive Propositions in Realist Linguistics<\/a><\/strong>
\nin Christina Behme and Martin Neef, eds.,Essays on Linguistic Realism(John Benjamines: NL), 2018, 235-254.<\/p>\n

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Kripke on Mind-Body Identity<\/strong>
\n<\/a>Appears in the Bloomsbury Companion to the Philosophy of Consciousness (2018), edited by Dale Jacquette<\/p>\n

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Deferentialism, Living Originalism, and the Constitution, and<\/a><\/strong>Response to Rosen<\/strong>
\n<\/a>Appears in\u00a0Inference, Intention and \u2018Ordinary Meaning\u2019: What jurists can learn about legal interpretation from linguistics and philosophy (2017), <\/em>University of Chicago Press, edited by Brian G. Slocum<\/p>\n

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The Changing Role of Language in Analytic Philosophy<\/a><\/strong>
\n<\/a><\/strong>Appears in\u00a0Analytic Philosophy: An Interpretive History (2017)<\/em>, edited by Aaron Preston, published by Routledge.<\/p>\n

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Propositions as Cognitive Acts<\/a><\/strong>
\n<\/a><\/strong>Synthese (2016)<\/em><\/p>\n

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Propositions, the Tractatus, and “The Single Great Problem of Philosophy”<\/a><\/strong>
\n<\/a><\/strong>Critica<\/em>, 2016, Vol. 48, No. 143, pp. 3-19.<\/p>\n

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The Place of David Lewis in Analytic Philosophy<\/a><\/strong>
\n<\/a><\/strong>A Companion to David Lewis,\u00a0<\/em>Loewer, Barry and Jonathan Schaeffer, eds, John Wiley & Sons, Ltd, Oxford, UK (2015).<\/p>\n

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Epistemic Intensions<\/strong><\/a>
\n<\/a><\/strong>Philosophy and Phenomenological Research,\u00a0<\/em>89, 2014, 986-994<\/p>\n

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Deferentialism: A Post-Originalist Theory of Legal Interpretation<\/a><\/strong>
\n<\/a><\/strong>Fordham Law Review<\/em>, Vol. 82, No. 2, November 2013, 597-617.<\/p>\n

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Cognitive Propositions<\/a><\/strong>
\n<\/a><\/strong>Philosophical Perspectives: Philosophy of Language<\/em>,\u00a0 Volume 27, 2013, 1-23.<\/p>\n

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Quines’s Position in the the History of Analytic Philosophy<\/strong><\/a>
\n<\/a><\/strong>A Companion to W.V.O.Quine<\/em>, Harman, Gilbert and Ernie Lepre, eds, Wiley-Blackwell, 2013, 432-464<\/p>\n

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Two Versions of Millianism<\/strong><\/a>
\n<\/a><\/strong>Reference and Referring, Topics in Philosophy<\/em>, Vol 10, Campbell, Joseph, Michael O’Rourke and Harry Silverstein, eds, MIT Press, 2012 83-118<\/p>\n

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Propositions<\/a><\/strong>
\n<\/a><\/strong>Routledge Companion to the Philosophy of Language<\/em>, edited by Delia Graff Fara and Gillian Russell, pp. 209-220, 2012.<\/p>\n

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Vagueness and the Law<\/a>
\n<\/a><\/strong>The Routledge to the Philosophy of Law<\/em>, edited by Andrei Marmor, 2012.<\/p>\n

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Toward a Theory of Legal Interpretation<\/a><\/strong>
\n<\/a><\/strong>NYU Law School Journal of Law and Liberty<\/em>, volume 6, 231-259, 2011.<\/p>\n

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Coordination Problems<\/strong><\/a>
\n<\/a><\/strong>Philosophy and Phenomenological Research<\/em>, 81, 475-484, 2010.<\/p>\n

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What are Natural Kinds?<\/strong><\/a>
\n<\/a><\/strong>Philosophical Topics<\/em>, 35(1-2): 329-342, 2007.<\/p>\n

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Kripke on Epistemic and Metaphysical Possibility<\/strong><\/a>
\n<\/a><\/strong>In\u00a0Saul Kripke<\/em>, Alan Berger, ed., Cambridge University Press, 2011<\/p>\n

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True At<\/a><\/strong>
\n<\/a><\/strong>Analysis<\/em>\u00a071(1): 124-133, 2010<\/p>\n

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What Vagueness and Inconsistency Tell Us About Interpretation<\/strong><\/a>
\n<\/a><\/strong>In\u00a0Philosophical Foundations of Language in the Law<\/em>, Marmor and Soames, eds., Oxford University Press, 2011<\/p>\n

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Revisionism About Reference: A Reply to Smith<\/strong><\/a>
\n<\/a><\/strong>Synthese<\/em>, 1995;\u00a0 Eastern Division Meetings of the APA Boston, December 1994<\/p>\n

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More Revision About Reference<\/strong><\/a>
\n<\/a><\/strong>Kluwer Academic Publishers, 1998; Appears in\u00a0The New Theory of Reference<\/em>, edited by P.W. Humphreys and J.H. Fetzer<\/p>\n

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The Quine-Carnap Debate on Ontology and Analyticity<\/a><\/strong>
\n<\/a><\/strong>Oxford University Press, 2009; Appearing in\u00a0Metametaphysics: New Essays at the Foundations of Ontology<\/em>, edited by David Chalmers, David Manley, and Ryan Wasserman<\/p>\n

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The Possibility of Partial Definition<\/strong><\/a><\/strong>Oxford University Press, 2009; Appearing in\u00a0Cuts and Clouds: Essays on the Nature of Vagueness<\/em>, edited by Richard Dietz and Sebastiano Morouzzi<\/p>\n

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Truth and Meaning\u2014In Perspective<\/strong><\/a>
\n<\/a><\/strong>Midwest Studies in Philosophy, XXXII, 2008, 1-19<\/p>\n

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Interpreting Legal Texts: What is, and What is not, Special about the Law<\/strong><\/a>
\n<\/a><\/strong>Soames, Philosophical Papers Vol. 1, Princeton University Press, 2008<\/p>\n

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Analytic Philosophy in America<\/strong><\/a>
\n<\/a><\/strong>The Oxford Handbook of American Philosophy<\/em>, Cheryl Misak,ed., 2008, 449-48<\/p>\n

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Drawing the Line Between Meaning and Implicature\u2014and Relating both to Assertion<\/a><\/strong>
\n<\/a><\/strong>Nous<\/em>, 42:3, 2008, 529-554<\/p>\n

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Why Propositions Can’t be Sets of Truth-Supporting Circumstances<\/strong><\/a>
\n<\/a><\/strong>The Journal of Philosophical Logic, 37, 2008, 267-276<\/p>\n

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Truthmakers<\/a><\/strong>
\n<\/a><\/strong>Philosophical Books, Vol. 49, No. 4, 2008, 317-327.<\/p>\n

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Actually<\/a><\/strong>
\n<\/a><\/strong>Aristotelian Society Supplementary Volume LXXXI<\/em>, 2007, Mark Kalderon, ed.<\/p>\n

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Ambitious Two-Dimensionalism<\/strong><\/a>
\n<\/a><\/strong>On Sense and Direct Reference<\/em>, Matthew Davidson, ed. McGraw Hill, 2007<\/p>\n

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Descriptive Names vs. Descriptive Anaphora<\/strong><\/a>
\n<\/a><\/strong>A Symposium on Alan Berger’s\u00a0Terms and Truth, Philosophy and Phenomenological Research, Vol. LXXII, No. 3<\/em>, 2006.<\/p>\n

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Facts, Truth Conditions, and the Skeptical Solution to the Rule-Following Paradox<\/strong><\/a>
\n<\/a><\/strong>Philosophical Perspectives, Vol. 12,<\/em>\u00a0Language, Mind, and Ontology<\/em>, 1998<\/p>\n

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Skepticism about Meaning: Indeterminacy, Normativity, and the Rule Following Paradox<\/strong><\/a>
\n<\/a><\/strong>Canadian Journal of Philosophy<\/em>, Supplementary Vol. 23, 1998<\/p>\n

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Philosophical Implications of the Kripkean Necessary Aposteriori<\/strong><\/a>
\n<\/a><\/strong>Philosophical Issues, Vol. 16,<\/em>\u00a0Blackwell Publishing Co., 2006<\/p>\n

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Understanding Assertion<\/strong><\/a>
\n<\/a><\/strong>Content and Modality: Themes from the Philosophy of Robert Stalnaker<\/em>, Oxford University Press, 2006, 222-250. Editors: Judith Thompson and Alex Byrne<\/p>\n

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Why Incomplete Definite Descriptions Do Not Defeat Russell’s Theory of Descriptions<\/strong><\/a>
\n<\/a><\/strong>Teorema, Vol XXIV No. 3,<\/em>\u00a02005<\/p>\n

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Reference and Description<\/strong><\/a>
\n<\/a><\/strong>The Oxford Handbook of Contemporary Philosophy<\/em>, 2005<\/p>\n

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Philosophical Analysis<\/strong><\/a>
\n<\/a><\/strong>Encyclopedia of Philosophy<\/em>, 2nd Edition, Macmillan Publishing Co., 2006<\/p>\n

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Naming and Asserting<\/strong><\/a>
\n<\/a><\/strong>Semantics vs. Pragmatics<\/em>, Oxford University Press, 2004, 356-382<\/p>\n

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Understanding Deflationism<\/strong><\/a>
\n<\/a><\/strong>Philosophical Perspectives, Vol. 17<\/em>, 2003, 369-383<\/p>\n

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Higher Order Vagueness<\/strong><\/a>
\n<\/a><\/strong>Liars and Heaps: New Essays on Paradox<\/em>, Oxford University Press, 2003, 128-50<\/p>\n

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Knowledge of Manifest Natural Kinds<\/strong><\/a>
\n<\/a><\/strong>Facta Philosophica<\/em>, Vol. 6, No. 2, 2004, 159-181<\/p>\n

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Substitutivity<\/a>
\n<\/a><\/strong>On Being and Saying: Essays for Richard Cartwright<\/em>, ed. 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