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According to Wikipedia, Scott Soames is an American philosopher. He is a professor of philosophy at the University of Southern California , and before that at Princeton University. He specializes in the philosophy of language and the history of analytic philosophy. He 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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Direct Reference, Propositional Attitudes, and Semantic Content (1987) (517)
Beyond Rigidity: The Unfinished Semantic Agenda of Naming and Necessity (2002) (306)
What Is Meaning (2010) (178)
New Thinking about Propositions (2014) (169)
Philosophical Analysis in the Twentieth Century (2003) (159)
Reference and Description: The Case against Two-Dimensionalism (2007) (142)
Syntactic Argumentation and the Structure of English (1979) (139)
Drawing the Line Between Meaning and Implicature—and Relating Both to Assertion (2008) (117)
Philosophical Analysis in the Twentieth Century, Volume 2 (2009) (110)
Linguistics and psychology (1984) (93)
Incomplete definite descriptions (1986) (86)
Propositions and attitudes (1988) (85)
Why Propositions Cannot be Sets of Truth-supporting Circumstances (2008) (81)
Truth and Meaning: In Perspective (2008) (79)
The Analytic Tradition in Philosophy, Volume 1 (2014) (68)
Truth, meaning, and understanding (1992) (67)
Reply to critics of the analytic tradition in philosophy vol. 1 the founding giants (2015) (62)
What we know now that we didn’t know then: reply to critics of The Age of Meaning (2007) (62)
The Modal Argument: Wide Scope and Rigidified Descriptions (1998) (60)
The necessity argument (1991) (57)
What Is a Theory of Truth (1984) (57)
Naming and Asserting (2005) (56)
Rethinking language, mind, and meaning (2015) (51)
Reference and description (2004) (51)
Philosophy of Language (2010) (50)
Beyond Singular Propositions? (1995) (45)
The Truth about Deflationism (1997) (44)
Semantics and Semantic Competence (2022) (40)
Skepticism about Meaning: Indeterminacy, Normativity, and the Rule-Following Paradox (1997) (39)
The Value of Vagueness (2011) (34)
ESSAY FIFTEEN. Interpreting Legal Texts: What Is, and What Is Not, Special about the Law (2008) (31)
What Are Natural Kinds (2007) (30)
Coordination Problems (2021) (30)
Précis of philosophical analysis in the twentieth century, volume 2, the age of meaning (2003) (29)
ESSAY TEN. The Gap between Meaning and Assertion: Why What We Literally Say Often Differs from What Our Words Literally Mean (2008) (28)
THE PHILOSOPHICAL SIGNIFICANCE OF THE KRIPKEAN NECESSARY APOSTERIORI (2006) (26)
Generality, Truth Functions, and Expressive Capacity in the Tractatus (1983) (22)
Donnellan's referential/attributive distinction (1994) (22)
ESSAY ONE. A Projection Problem for Speaker Presuppositions (2008) (21)
Philosophical Essays, Volume 1: Natural Language: What It Means and How We Use It (2008) (21)
The analytic tradition in philosophy (2014) (20)
The Indeterminacy of Translation and the Inscrutability of Reference (1999) (18)
Facts, truth conditions, and the skeptical solution to the rule-following paradox (1998) (18)
Philosophical Foundations of Language in the Law (2011) (17)
Clarifying and Improving the Cognitive Theory (2014) (17)
Propositions as Cognitive Acts (2019) (17)
HACKER'S COMPLAINT (2006) (16)
XI—Pronouns and Propositional Attitudes (1990) (15)
Précis of Philosophical Analysis in the Twentieth Century, Volume 1, The Dawn of Analysis (2003) (15)
COGNITIVE PROPOSITIONS: Cognitive Propositions (2013) (15)
A critical examination of Frege's theory of presupposition and contemporary alternatives. (1976) (15)
What Vagueness and Inconsistency Tell Us About Interpretation (2011) (15)
Cognitive Significance, Attitude Ascriptions, and Ways of Believing Propositions (2002) (15)
Analytic Philosophy in America (2008) (14)
Attitudes and Anaphora (1994) (14)
The age of meaning (2003) (14)
Deferentialism: A Post–originalist Theory of Legal Interpretation (2013) (14)
Why the Traditional Conceptions of Propositions Can’t be Correct (2014) (14)
I—Scott Soames: Actually (2007) (13)
Why incomplete Definite Descriptions do not Defeat Russell's Theory of Descriptions (2008) (13)
Revisionism about reference: A reply to Smith (1995) (12)
The dawn of analysis (2005) (12)
Collected Papers by Gareth Evans (1989) (12)
Yes, the search for explanation is all we have (2016) (11)
The Possibility of Partial Definition (2010) (10)
The Analytic Tradition in Philosophy, Volume 1: The Founding Giants (2014) (10)
14. Toward a Theory of Legal Interpretation (2014) (10)
Coordination Problems: BOOK SYMPOSIUM (2010) (10)
ESSAY THIRTEEN. Higher-Order Vagueness for Partially Defined Predicates (2009) (9)
Vagueness and the Law (2012) (9)
What is History for? Reply to Critics of The Dawn of Analysis (2006) (9)
RULE ORDERINGS, OBLIGATORY TRANSFORMATIONS, AND DERIVATIONAL CONSTRAINTS (1974) (8)
Saul Kripke: Kripke on Epistemic and Metaphysical Possibility (2011) (8)
Analytic Philosophy in America: And Other Historical and Contemporary Essays (2014) (8)
Understanding Assertion (2006) (8)
No class: Russell on contextual definition and the elimination of sets (2008) (7)
THE SUBSTANCE AND SIGNIFICANCE OF THE DISPUTE OVER TWO-DIMENSIONALISM (2007) (7)
Knowledge of Manifest Natural Kinds (2004) (6)
The World Philosophy Made (2019) (5)
Précis of Beyond Rigidity (2006) (5)
Peacocke on Explanation in Psychology (1986) (5)
More Revisionism about Reference (1998) (4)
Philosophical Essays, Volume 2 (2008) (4)
Hans Reichenbach's Philosophy of Grammar (1979) (4)
Propositions, The "Tractatus", and "The Single Great Problem of Philosophy" (2016) (4)
Tarski's Definition of Truth (1999) (3)
Reply to Ezcurdia and Gómez-Torrente (2004) (3)
Reply to Critics (2006) (3)
Propositions vs Properties and Facts (2014) (3)
Truth and Meaning (2004) (3)
Beyond Rigidity: Reply to McKinsey (2005) (3)
Descriptive Names vs. Descriptive Anaphora (2006) (3)
Logic as Grammar by Norbert Hornstein (1987) (3)
The analytic tradition in philosophy: volume 2—a new vision (2017) (3)
7. Kripke on Epistemic and Metaphysical Possibility Two Routes to the Necessary A Posteriori (2011) (2014) (3)
David Lewis's Place in Analytic Philosophy (2015) (3)
Pragmatic attitudes and semantic competence. Reply (2004) (3)
10. Ontology, Analyticity, and Meaning Quine-Carnap Dispute (2009) (2014) (2)
Cognitive propositions in realist linguistics (2016) (2)
The Moral Impact Theory of Law (2020) (2)
ESSAY SIX. The Philosophical Significance of the Kripkean Necessary A Posteriori (2009) (2)
Vagueness, Partiality, and the Sorites Paradox (1999) (2)
11. Two Versions of Millianism (2014) (2)
Beyond rigidity ? Essentialist predication and the rigidity of general terms. Reply (2004) (2)
Philosophical Essays, Volume 2: The Philosophical Significance of Language (2009) (2)
The philosophical significance of language (2009) (2)
The World Philosophy Made: From Plato to the Digital Age (2019) (2)
Introduction to the Two Volumes (2003) (2)
Précis of Understanding Truth (2002) (2)
Chapter 9. Cognitive propositions in realist linguistics (2018) (2)
Kripke on Mind–Body Identity (2018) (1)
Reply to Garcia-Carpintero and Richard (1997) (1)
The Place of Quine in Analytic Philosophy (2013) (1)
Reply to critics of the analytic tradition in philosophy vol. 1 the founding giants (2015) (1)
The Quine-Carnap Debate on Ontology and Analyticity (2007) (1)
Chapter 16. The Analytic and the Synthetic, the Necessary and the Possible, the Apriori and the Aposteriori (2003) (1)
The Propositional Benacerraf Problem (2020) (1)
Chapter 2. Moore on Skepticism, Perception, and Knowledge (2003) (1)
Analytic Philosophy of Language (2019) (1)
Cognitive propositions, truth functions and the Tractatus (2022) (1)
ESSAY NINE. Ambitious Two-Dimensionalism (2009) (1)
Truth, Paradox, and Partially Defined Predicates (1999) (1)
ESSAY SIXTEEN. Facts, Truth Conditions, and the Skeptical Solution to the Rule-Following Paradox (2009) (1)
ESSAY EIGHT. Understanding Assertion (2009) (1)
ESSAY THREE. Belief and Mental Representation (2009) (1)
The Changing Role of Language in Analytic Philosophy (2017) (1)
: Philosophical Essays , Volume 2 : The Philosophical (2009) (1)
Steven Davis, Philosophy and Language, Bobbs‐Merrill, 1976; Justin Leiber, Noam Chomsky: A Philosophic Overview (1980) (1)
The analytic tradition in philosophy: volume 1 Précis (2015) (1)
ESSAY TWO. Why Propositions Can’t Be Sets of Truth-Supporting Circumstances (2009) (1)
Methodology in Nineteenth-and Early Twentieth-Century Analytic Philosophy (2016) (1)
5. The Place of Willard Van Orman Quine in Analytic Philosophy (2014) (1)
ESSAY TWELVE. Understanding Deflationism (2009) (1)
13. Vagueness and the Law (2014) (1)
What We Know about Numbers and Propositions and How We Know It (2020) (0)
CHAPTER 2. The Metaphysics and Epistemology of Information (2015) (0)
ESSAY FOURTEEN. The Possibility of Partial Definition (2009) (0)
CHAPTER 4. Linguistic Cognition, Understanding, and Millian Modes of Presentation (2015) (0)
Chapter 3. Moore On Goodness and the Foundations of Ethics (2003) (0)
ESSAY FIVE. Semantics and Semantic Competence (2008) (0)
Chapter 3. Why Truth Conditions Are Not Enough (2010) (0)
Chapter 4. Roots of Two-Dimensionalism in Kaplan and Kripke (2009) (0)
Chapter 2. Frege and Russell: The Real Problem of “the Unity of the Proposition” (2010) (0)
Chapter 2. Attack on the Traditional Picture proper names, non-descriptionality, and rigid designation (2009) (0)
The contributions of philosophy: reply to critics of the world philosophy made (2021) (0)
Millian Meaning and Pseudo‐Fregean Attitudes (2002) (0)
ESSAY FOUR. Attitudes and Anaphora (2009) (0)
The analytic tradition in philosophy: volume 1 Précis (2015) (0)
ESSAY FOUR. Semantics and Psychology (2008) (0)
Chapter 10. Meaning, Truth, and Logic in the Tractatus (2003) (0)
Anti-descriptivism 2.0 (2021) (0)
CHAPTER SEVEN: The Limits of Meaning (2010) (0)
CHAPTER 11. worries, Opportunities, and Unsolved Problems (2015) (0)
The richness of our tradition: replies to Preston, Gomez-Torrente, and Hanks (2019) (0)
CHAPTER 5. Perceptual and Demonstrative Modes of Presentation (2015) (0)
CHAPTER FIVE: The Metaphysics of Meaning: Propositions and Possible Worlds (2010) (0)
CHAPTER 16. The Contingent Apriori (2004) (0)
What Do Natural Kind Predicates Have in Common With Proper Names (2002) (0)
Chapter 1. Common Sense and Philosophical Analysis (2003) (0)
ESSAY SIX. The Necessity Argument (2008) (0)
8. What Is the Frege/Russell Analysis of Quantification? (2014) (0)
The richness of our tradition: replies to Preston, Gomez-Torrente, and Hanks (2019) (0)
CHAPTER 10. Overcoming Objections (2015) (0)
ESSAY TEN. Actually (2009) (0)
4. For Want of Cognitively Defined Propositions A History of Insights and Lost Philosophical Opportunities (2014) (0)
Chapter 11. The Tractarian Test of Intelligibility and Its Consequences (2003) (0)
Chapter 11. Our Knowledge of the External World (2014) (0)
Reply to Pincock's Review (2005) (0)
Fruits of the Causal Theory of Reference (2020) (0)
CHAPTER TWO: Truth, Interpretation, and Meaning (2010) (0)
Propositions as Cognitive Acts (2016) (0)
Partially Descriptive Names (2002) (0)
To What Should Originalists be Faithful (2020) (0)
CHAPTER 11. Quine’s Radical Semantic Eliminativism (2004) (0)
Viennese Lessons: Wittgenstein, Carnap, and Schlick (2022) (0)
EPILOGUE: The Era of Specialization (2004) (0)
Subject-auxiliary inversion and gaps ingeneralized phrase structure grammar (1989) (0)
CHAPTER 15. The Necessary Aposteriori (2004) (0)
Chapter 5. Stalnaker’s Two-Dimensionalist Model of Discourse (2009) (0)
Forms of Truth Skepticism (1999) (0)
CHAPTER ONE The Logical Study of Language (2010) (0)
The Problem Posed by Propositional Attitude Ascriptions (2002) (0)
Investigating Logic (2021) (0)
Chapter 5. Truth, Skepticism, Perception, and Knowledge (2014) (0)
CHAPTER SIX: Apriority, Aposteriority, and Actuality (2010) (0)
Chapter 9. Truth, Falsity, and Judgment (2014) (0)
What Is It for a General Term to Be a Rigid Designator (2002) (0)
Essay two. Presupposition (2008) (0)
The founding giants (2014) (0)
Philosophy of Language for the Twenty-First Century (2021) (0)
Chapter 9. Chalmers’s Two-Dimensionalist Defense of Zombies (2009) (0)
Chapter 2. Critical Challenges (2014) (0)
CHAPTER 5. Strawson’s Performative Theory of Truth (2004) (0)
The Origins of These Essays (2008) (0)
Part One: Russell's Promising Ideas on the Bearers of Truth and Falsity (2015) (0)
15. Deferentialism A Post-Originalist Theory of Legal Interpretation (2013) (2014) (0)
ESSAY ONE. Direct Reference, Propositional Attitudes, and Semantic Content (2009) (0)
Seminar 7: the Logic of Principia Mathematica (2015) (0)
Chapter 6. The Cognitive-Realist Theory of Propositions (2010) (0)
CHAPTER 7. Malcolm’s Paradigm Case Argument (2004) (0)
Chapter 1. The Traditional Descriptivist Picture (2009) (0)
Chapter 10. Critique Of Ambitious Two-Dimensionalism (2009) (0)
THE JOURNAL OF PHILOSOPHY (2004) (0)
Anti-descriptivism 2.0 (2021) (0)
Seminar 5: Russell " on Denoting " , Part 1 (2015) (0)
The Meaning of Names (2002) (0)
What I plan to do in the present paper is , first , sketch the theory of propositions I defended in a recent book (2017) (0)
Seminar 4: Moore's Ethics (2015) (0)
The Significance of Tarski's Theory of Truth (1999) (0)
Chapter 17. Meaning and Holistic Verificationism (2003) (0)
Appreciating Analytic Philosophy (2021) (0)
Is H2O a Liquid, or Water a Gas? (2006) (0)
Chapter 13. The Rise and Fall of the Empiricist Criterion of Meaning (2003) (0)
Chapter 1. Foundations of Logic, Language, and Mathematics (2014) (0)
Natural Kind Predicates, Mass Nouns, and Abstract Singular Terms (2002) (0)
CHAPTER 8. Austin’s Sense and Sensibilia (2004) (0)
Chapter 4. The Legacies and Lost Opportunities of Moore’S Ethics (2003) (0)
The analytic tradition in philosophy: volume 2—a new vision (2019) (0)
Chapter 3. Reasons for Resistance and the Strategy for Descriptivist Revival (2009) (0)
Chapter 12. The Philosophy of Logical Atomism (2014) (0)
Reply to Pincock (2005) (0)
Rigid Designation and Its Lessons for the Semantic Contents of Proper Names (2002) (0)
ESSAY FIVE. The Modal Argument: Wide Scope and Rigidified Descriptions (2009) (0)
ESSAY FIFTEEN. Skepticism about Meaning: Indeterminacy, Normativity, and the Rule-Following Paradox (2009) (0)
CHAPTER 6. Hare’s Performative Theory of Goodness (2004) (0)
Chapter 9. The Metaphysics of the Tractatus (2003) (0)
Chapter 8. Russell’s Theory of Descriptions: “On Denoting” (2014) (0)
ESSAY THREE. Linguistics and Psychology (2008) (0)
Presupposition.@@@Presuppositions and Non-Truth-Conditional Semantics. (1977) (0)
ESSAY NINE. Naming and Asserting (2008) (0)
CHAPTER FOUR: Rigid Designation, Direct Reference, and Indexicality (2010) (0)
What Is Truth (1999) (0)
Legal Applications (2021) (0)
CHAPTER 13. Truth, Interpretation, and the Alleged Unintelligibility of Alternative Conceptual Schemes (2004) (0)
Chapter 14. Emotivism and Its Critics (2003) (0)
INTRODUCTION: OVERVIEW AND HISTORICAL BACKGROUND (2004) (0)
ESSAY ELEVEN. What Is a Theory of Truth (2009) (0)
Origins of These Essays (2014) (0)
CHAPTER 2. Rule Following and the Private Language Argument (2004) (0)
Suggested Further Reading for Part Three (2003) (0)
ESSAY TWELVE. Incomplete Definite Descriptions (2008) (0)
Seminar 3: Moore's Journey from Idealism to Realism to Common Sense (2015) (0)
Review: Steven E. Boer, William G. Lycan, Knowing Who (1988) (0)
Mario Gómez-Torrente. 2020. Roads to Reference. Oxford: Oxford University Press (2022) (0)
Chapter 11. Positive Nondescriptivism (2009) (0)
CHAPTER 1. The Need for New Foundations (2015) (0)
ESSAY THIRTEEN. Donnellan’s Referential/Attributive Distinction (2008) (0)
CHAPTER 12. Theories of Truth as Theories of Meaning (2004) (0)
CHAPTER 1. Rejection of the Tractarian Conception of Language and Analysis (2004) (0)
12. What Are Natural Kinds (2014) (0)
CHAPTER 3. Thinking of Oneself, the Present Moment, and the Actual world- State (2015) (0)
ESSAY ELEVEN. Drawing the Line between Meaning and Implicature – and Relating Both to Assertion (2008) (0)
Methodology in 19 th and Early 20 th Century Analytic Philosophy (2012) (0)
Ambitious Two-Dimensionalism by Scott Soames (2006) (0)
Seminar 2b (Soames) (2015) (0)
CHAPTER 17. Natural Kind Terms and Theoretical Identification Statements (2004) (0)
Gödelian Challenges (2021) (0)
The contributions of philosophy: reply to critics of the world philosophy made (2021) (0)
ESSAY SEVEN. Knowledge of Manifest Natural Kinds (2009) (0)
Yes, the search for explanation is all we have (2016) (0)
Precis: the world philosophy made (2021) (0)
CHAPTER 6. Recognition of Recurrence (2015) (0)
CHAPTER 9. Language Use and the Logic of Conversation (2004) (0)
Forthcoming in a special issue of Inquiry (2021) (0)
Chapter 6. The Early Two-Dimensionalist Semantics of Davies and Humberstone (2009) (0)
Chapter 4. Goodness and the Foundations of Ethics (2014) (0)
Boër Steven E. and Lycan William G.. Knowing who. Bradford books. The MIT Press, Cambridge, Mass., and London, 1986, xiv + 212 pp. (1988) (0)
Chapter 6. Logic and Mathematics: The Logicist Reduction (2003) (0)
Carpintero and Josep Maciá, features mostly new essays by contributors such as (2009) (0)
Chapter 8. Jackson’s Strong Two-Dimensionalist Program (2009) (0)
CHAPTER 7. Believing, Asserting, and Communicating Propositions of Limited Accessibility (2015) (0)
Critique of Two Views : Propositions as Properties Propositions as Facts (2012) (0)
CHAPTER 4. Ryle’s Concept of Mind (2004) (0)
Rethinking language, mind, and meaning (2016) (0)
Chapter 5. Logical Form, Grammatical Form, and the Theory of Descriptions (2003) (0)
CHAPTER 9. Situating Cognitive Propositions in a Broader Context (2015) (0)
Chapter 15. Normative Ethics in the Era of Emotivism: The Anticonsequentialism of Sir David Ross (2003) (0)
Changing the Culture (2021) (0)
Chapter 7. Expanding the Cognitive-Realist Model (2010) (0)
CHAPTER 3. Ryle’s Dilemmas (2004) (0)
Chapter 4. Propositions and Attitudes: Davidson’s Challenge and Russell’s Neglected Insight (2010) (0)
Chapter 3. Becoming G. E. Moore (2014) (0)
Lessons of the Liar (1999) (0)
The Case Against Linguistically Enhanced Propositions (2002) (0)
Chapter 12. The Logical Positivists on Necessity and Apriori Knowledge (2003) (0)
Precis: the world philosophy made (2021) (0)
Chapter 7. Early Russell: Logic, Philosophy, and The Principles of Mathematics (2014) (0)
Chapter 7. Strong and Weak Two-Dimensionalism (2009) (0)
CHAPTER 8. Recognition of Recurrence Revisited (2015) (0)
Ambiguity and Indexicality (2002) (0)
CAN volume 35 issue 1 Cover and Front matter (2005) (0)
CHAPTER 10. The Indeterminacy of Translation (2004) (0)
Draft Two Versions of Millianism (2011) (0)
Chapter 8. Russell’S Logical Atomism (2003) (0)
3. Language, Meaning, and Information A Case Study on the Path from Philosophy to Science (2014) (0)
CHAPTER 14. Names, Essence, and Possibility (2004) (0)
Chapter 7. Logical Constructions and the External World (2003) (0)
An Analytical Introduction (2021) (0)
CHAPTER THREE: Meaning, Modality, and Possible Worlds Semantics (2010) (0)
ESSAY SEVEN. Truth, Meaning, and Understanding (2008) (0)
Chapter 5. Toward a Theory of Propositions: A Deflationary Account (2010) (0)
Chapter 1. Meanings (2010) (0)

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