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About Scott Soames<\/h1>\n

I was an undergraduate in philosophy at Stanford University, and a graduate student studying Linguistics and Philosophy at M. I. T., where I received my Ph.D. in philosophy in 1976.<\/p>\n

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I taught philosophy at Yale University from 1976 – 1980, when I moved to Princeton University, where I taught from 1980 – 2004. I joined the faculty of USC in the Fall of 2004, and served as Director of the School of Philosophy from 2007-2022. My specialties are the philosophy of language, history of analytic philosophy, and the philosophy of law.<\/p>\n

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My books include:\u00a0The Analytic Tradition in Philosophy, Vol 2: A New Vision,<\/em>\u00a0<\/i>Princeton 2018).\u00a0Rethinking Language, Mind, and Meaning<\/em>\u00a0<\/i>(Princeton 2015),\u00a0The Analytic Tradition in Philosophy, Vol 1:<\/em>\u00a0Founding Giants<\/em>\u00a0<\/i>(Princeton 2014),\u00a0Analytic Philosophy in America, and other Historical and Contemporary Essays<\/em>\u00a0<\/i>(Princeton 2014),\u00a0What is Meaning?<\/em>\u00a0<\/i>(Princeton 2010),\u00a0Philosophy of Language<\/em>\u00a0<\/i>(Princeton 2010),\u00a0Collected Essays, Volumes 1 and 2<\/em>, (Princeton, 2009),\u00a0Reference and Description\u00a0<\/em>(Princeton, 2005),\u00a0Philosophical Analysis in the Twentieth Century, Volumes 1 and 2\u00a0<\/em>(Princeton 2003),\u00a0Beyond Rigidity<\/em>\u00a0(Oxford University Press 2002), and\u00a0Understanding Truth<\/em>\u00a0(Oxford 1999).\u00a0 I am also co-author, with Jeff King and Jeff Speaks, of\u00a0New Thinking about Propositions<\/em>\u00a0(Oxford 2014), and co-author, with David Perlmutter, of\u00a0Syntactic Argumentation and the Structure of English<\/em>, (University of California Press, 1979).\u00a0 I am co-editor, with Andre Marmor, of\u00a0Philosophical Foundations of Language in the Law<\/em>, (Oxford 2012), and co-editor, with Nathan Salmon, of\u00a0Propositions and Attitudes<\/em>, (Oxford 1988).<\/p>\n

My most recent book,\u00a0The World Philosophy Made,\u00a0<\/i>was published by Princeton University Press in November 2019.<\/p>\n

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