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	Scott Soames - Philosophical Analysis in the Twentieth Century, vol. 1, The Dawn of Analysis; vol. 2, The Age of ...
		Soames identifies the "most important achievements" of analytic philosophy as "(i) the recognition that philosophical speculation must be grounded in pre-philosophical thought, and (ii) the success achieved in understanding, and separating from one another, the fundamental methodological notions of logical consequence, logical truth, necessary truth, and a priori truth." (Vol.
		Soames claims that Wittgenstein's closing description of the book as nonsense is based on the application of a "test of intelligibility" derived from the book's theory of language, to that theory itself.
		Soames, who claims that the anti-theoretical impulse of Wittgenstein and ordinary language philosophy had run its course by the early 60s, cannot own up to the presence of this same impulse in the writings of his philosophical hero.
	ndpr.nd.edu /review.cfm?id=4061 (6254 words)

	Scott Soames Ph.D. - Review of Beyond Rigidity - The Unfinished Semantic Agenda of Naming and Necessity - An Excellent ...
		Soames assumes that the goal of semantic theorizing is to specify the semantic contents of expressions with respect to contexts.
		Soames proposes roughly the following analysis of the notion of semantic content for an unambiguous, context-insensitive sentence S: proposition P is the semantic content of S iff P is the proposition that all competent speakers assert and convey with all utterances of (1).
		Soames argues that the necessity of Kripkean theoretical identities are a consequence of (i) their non-descriptionality and (ii) the semantic presuppositions of persons who introduce and use the terms.
	evans-experientialism.freewebspace.com /soames.htm (4871 words)

	Response to Scott Soames' APA Response
		Soames ends up rejecting this mapping on the grounds that the central principle E5 (holding that a priori truths are true at all epistemically possible worlds), although true in most cases, is false in certain special cases involving the 'actually' that I discussed in my paper.
		So Soames' system (with its two basic modal operators and corresponding modal spaces, and an attenuated connection between one of these spaces and apriority) can still be seen as two-dimensional in a sense at least as strong as that in which these systems are two-dimensional.
		At least, Soames owes us a motivated account of how the framework is supposed to work given this denial, and of what the relation between knowing a proposition (a priori or otherwise) and ruling out world-states in which the proposition is true is supposed to be.
	consc.net /papers/soamesapa.html (3223 words)

	Alex Byrne and Ned Hall: Necessary Truths
		Soames is a particularly appropriate historian: he has made important contributions to contemporary philosophy of language, and his own talent for clarity and rigor testifies to one important kind of progress analytic philosophy has made in the last hundred years.
		Soames agrees that the examples in the second category are genuine cases of the necessary a posteriori—of truths that can only be known on the basis of experience but that could not be false.
		Soames argues that it is not and makes his case by drawing on another important theme in Naming and Necessity, that names are not abbreviated descriptions; for example, “Gilbert Ryle” is not short for “The pipe-smoking author of The Concept of Mind” or any other kind of description.
	bostonreview.net /BR29.5/byrnehall.html (3530 words)

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		Grice, Strawson, and Soames all think that there is a short route from the fact that Quine rejects “meanings” to the conclusion that Quine is committed to the claim that everything he himself says is meaningless.
		Since Soames seems to me a paradigm of a philosopher of language of the first kind, as Dummett would be of the second, I am surprised that he is not more sympathetic to Quine’s point of view.
		For Soames the crucial contribution of “Naming and Necessity” lies in Kripke’s distinguishing the analytic, the a priori, and the “necessary” in the sense in which Kripke uses that term.
	www.princeton.edu /~jburgess/Soames.doc (2448 words)

	MARCUS AND THE NEW THEORY OF REFERENCE:
		Soames’ reply is that in Marcus’ 1946—47 papers, she proved that the necessity of identity involved only variables, and there is no direct route from this to the view that the theorem of the necessity of identity also applies to proper names.
		I believe a central reason why Soames did not recognize the argument for a posteriori necessary in Marcus’ work is that he uses her absence of the current Kripkean terminology (“a posteriori necessities”, etc.) as evidence that she did not have the concept of the a posteriori necessity.
		Soames’ belief that Marcus’ linkage of these issues marks a contrast between her and Kripke is indicative of his failure to grasp the fact that in her response she explains her argument for the a posteriori necessary, as I will now show in detail.
	www.qsmithwmu.com /marcus_and_the_new_theory_of_reference.htm (10485 words)

	fragments of consciousness: Soames Chapter 4: Kripke's error
		Soames points to various errors, but the main "error" for both of Kripke and Kaplan is the suggestion that when a name or a 'dthat'-expression is introduced using a reference-fixing description, this can give rise to contingent a priori knowledge.
		What's odd is that Soames gives hardly any argument in the chapter for the claim that if (1) and (2) are examples of the contingent a priori, then it is possible to know a priori of a certain individual that he or she is the youngest Chinese spy (if anyone is).
		Soames might be assuming that a name must have singular content by definition, or that names require some sort of strong relation to their referent.
	fragments.consc.net /djc/2005/02/soames_chapter_.html (4756 words)

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		Soames’ response is to reject a presupposition (EM) of the argument (EM) (1) is either true or not true Which step merits rejection, then, depends on whether we read ‘iff’ throughout as the material biconditional.
		Soames describes plausible rules for such adjustments. One might be concerned that under Soames’ view all vague predicates (in any fixed context) classify objects sharply into three classes: those in the determinate extension, those in the determinate antiextension, and the rest.
		Soames replies to the concern over higher-order vagueness by saying that, given a vague predicate (, the predicate ‘is a member of the default (determinate) extension of (’, too, may turn out to be vague.
	www.missouri.edu /~mcgrathma/pubs-papers/Soames.doc (3636 words)

	[No title] (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
		In Chapter 3, Soames argues forcefully that given the satisfaction of certain contextual conditions, sentences can be used to assert pro positions other than, and in addition to, the propositions that the sentences semantically express, given their literal meanings.
		Given what Soames goes on to say about other similar examples, it is clear that he would also say that in uttering (2) in the context described, he had in fact actually }{\i asserted}{ the descriptive proposition expressed by \par (3)\tab The well-known philosopher of science, Carl Hempel, lived on Lake Lane in Princeton.
		Soames says that it would then be correct to report that he (Soames) had }{\i said}{ that he was the person they (the university officials) were looking for.
	www.la.wayne.edu /Philosophy/Soames.rtf (6609 words)

	Scott Soames - Beyond Rigidity: The Unfinished Semantic Agenda of Naming and Necessity - Reviewed by Genoveva Marti , ...
		This distinction is central in Soamesâ approach, and it figures prominently in the defense of the relational theory of attitude reports presented in chapters 6-8, for it explains the intuition that attributions of belief that differ only in the substitution of coreferential proper names may still differ in truth value.
		Soamesâ analysis of attitude reports is one of several different proposals in contention within the tradition of Direct Reference, and it will probably continue to generate a lot discussion and responses, from the targets of his criticisms as well as from other theorists who reject the purely relational analysis he endorses.
		Soames treats theoretical identification sentences as conditionals or bi-conditionals, and he offers a theory that explains why identification sentences involving simple predicates that designate kinds of the same type are necessary, if true, on purely linguistic grounds.
	ndpr.nd.edu /review.cfm?id=1052 (2298 words)

	Scott Soames - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Scott Soames (born 1946) is a professor of philosophy at the University of Southern California.
		Soames has previously taught at Yale University (from 1976-1980) and Princeton University (from 1980-2004).
		Soames specializes in the philosophy of language and the history of analytic philosophy.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Scott_Soames (552 words)

	Soames, S.: Reference and Description: The Case against Two-Dimensionalism.
		In this book, Scott Soames defends the revolution in philosophy led by Saul Kripke, Hilary Putnam, and David Kaplan against attack from those wishing to revive descriptivism in the philosophy of language, internalism in the philosophy of mind, and conceptualism in the foundations of modality.
		Soames explains how, in the last twenty-five years, this attack on the anti-descriptivist revolution has coalesced around a technical development called two-dimensional modal logic that seeks to reinterpret the Kripkean categories of the necessary aposteriori and the contingent apriori in ways that drain them of their far-reaching philosophical significance.
		What Scott Soames makes vividly clear is that the lessons of the critique of descriptivism instituted by Kripke, Putnam, et alia, are easily obscured and have yet to be fully assimilated.
	press.princeton.edu /titles/7899.html (455 words)

	Philosophical Analysis in the Twentieth Century, Volume 2: The Age of Meaning - Scott Soames (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
		Comment: Philosophical Analysis in the Twentieth Century: The Age of Meaning is the second of Scott Soames' two volume series on 20th century analytic philosophy.
		Soames carefully explains the theories of these philosophers, and clearly sets forth their arguments.
		As Soames explains, some important philosophers are not covered and some material from the philosophers that are covered is not discussed.
	www.bookswap.ws /Content/findonamazonus-Asin-0691115745.html (634 words)

	The Daily Princetonian - Soames leaves for USC, weakening philosophy dept.
		Soames, 58, specializes in the philosophy of language and the history of analytical philosophy.
		Soames said his decision was influenced by the strength of USC's programs in these areas and his plans to marry over the summer.
		Soames said he loves Princeton but noted the changes in the philosophy department resulting from the loss of faculty members who have died or moved away.
	www.dailyprincetonian.com /archives/2004/03/08/news/9870.shtml (555 words)

	Scott Soames - Reference and Description: The Case Against Two-Dimensionalism - Reviewed by Eros Corazza, Carleton ...
		Soames' strategy consists in arguing that when one uses a proper name n "one gets the result that the proposition semantically expressed by n is F is the bare singular proposition that simply predicates the property expressed by F of the referent o of n.
		Soames' book is, no doubt, a great addition to the literature on descriptivism in particular and philosophy of language and mind in general.
		Soames' arguments against the two-dimensionalist picture are persuasive and convincing.
	ndpr.nd.edu /review.cfm?id=5102 (1838 words)

	Soames, S.: Philosophical Analysis in the Twentieth Century, Volume 1: The Dawn of Analysis.
		As Scott Soames tells it, the story of analytic philosophy is one of great but uneven progress, with leading thinkers making important advances toward solving the tradition's core problems.
		Soames himself has been at the center of some of the tradition's most important debates, and throughout writes with exceptional ease about its often complex ideas.
		Scott Soames is Professor of Philosophy at the University of Southern California.
	press.princeton.edu /titles/7629.html (674 words)

	Amazon.com: Beyond Rigidity: The Unfinished Semantic Agenda of Naming and Necessity: Books: Scott Soames (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
		Soames' subtitle to Beyond Rigidity (a clever title) is: 'The Unfinished Semantic Agenda of NN' so one would expect some beaucoup direct reference theory and a clear analysis of just what kind of 'agenda' kripke left 'unfinished.' Soames is meticulous in satisfying that expectation.
		Soames is obviously a very careful philosopher, and insofar as the framework in which he investigates the questions goes, his conclusions are plausible enough.
		Soames (and many more modern philosophers) seem to be returning to the same holes Mill dug when he wrote those handful of paragraphs which forever tied his name to a fatally flawed theory of reference.
	amazon.com /Beyond-Rigidity-Unfinished-Semantic-Necessity/dp/0195145291 (2369 words)

	Philosophical Analysis in the Twentieth Century, Volume 1: The Dawn of Analysis - Scott Soames (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
		Soames has selected the essential figures of the first half of the 20th century, together with their essential arguments, and explained their significance.
		Of particular interest, I believe, is Soames recounting of the most basic points behind Russell's axiomatization of arithmetic, and explaining its philosophical significance in its era.
		Soames' skills as an expositor would be well-suited to this task.
	www.bookswap.ws /Content/findonamazonus-Asin-069112244X.html (815 words)

	Deliberation and Decision
		I do this because, to the extent that what Soames says actually represents the sense of the discipline, this means that analytic philosophy is actually (as I have frequently asserted) bankrupt.
		Both Newton and Copernicus quite rightly chose to violate Soames’ principle, and to present their higher-level theory even though some of its component theories were not quite right.
		Soames would call this “doing badly what cannot be done” and would have preferred that they had “constructed a series of limited, but accurate and overlapping, syntheses that together illuminated reality as we know it”.
	www.idiocentrism.com /decision.htm (905 words)

	The Ethical Werewolf: Imagining that Soames is Tyson (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
		Soames unleashes a barrage of punches and floors the two-dimensionalist with a devastating uppercut.
		Perhaps Soames drinks a potion every now and then which turns him fl and muscular and gives him a strange voice but lowers his intelligence.
		Soames does not need to "slim down" in order to go from being Tyson back to being Scott Soames.
	ethicalwerewolf.blogspot.com /2004/07/imagining-that-soames-is-tyson.html (594 words)

	Peter W. Hanks - Research
		I argue that this interpretation is mistaken and that Wittgenstein’s objection is in fact a form of the problem of the unity of the proposition.
		In his excellent recent book Beyond Rigidity (OUP, 2002) Scott Soames picks up where Saul Kripke left off in Naming and Necessity by presenting a novel and ingenious argument for Millianism about proper names, the view that the meaning of a name is exhausted by its referent.
		Soames' argument depends on a thesis about semantic content: (very roughly) a proposition p is the semantic content of a non-context sensitive sentence s if and only if in any normal context in which a competent speaker uses s literally, the speaker asserts and conveys p.
	www.tc.umn.edu /~pwhanks/research/research.html (508 words)

	LRB \| Richard Rorty : How many grains make a heap? (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
		But, Soames seems to suggest, they may finally be disabusing themselves of this millennia-long misunderstanding of their own enterprise.
		Soames formulates it as follows: ‘If one has something that is not a heap of sand, and one adds a single grain of sand to it, the result is still not a heap of sand.
		Soames does little to tell us what counts as ‘philosophical analysis’ – what makes ‘analytic’ an appropriate word to describe the movement whose course he traces.
	www.lrb.co.uk /v27/n02/print/rort01_.html (3152 words)

	Scott Soames Books - Signed, used, new, out-of-print
		In this masterful work, Princeton philosopher Scott Soames illuminates the notion of truth and the role it plays in our ordinary thought as well as in our logical, philosophical, and scientific theories.
		Soames aims to integrate and deepen the most significant insights on truth from a variety of sources.
		As Scott Soames tells it, the story of analytic philosophy is one of great but uneven progress, with leading...
	www.alibris.com /search/books/author/Scott_Soames (557 words)

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		Soames concludes that, contrary to the rigidified descriptivist theory, we do not express belief in a proposition about A
		Soames uses his third chapter, titled “The Meaning of Proper Names,” to argue in favor of Millianism.
		Soames concludes his book with a refutation of an argument by Mark Johnston against the identity of water with H
	www.ling.rochester.edu /~braun/Papers/soames.htm (4826 words)

	Amazon.com: Philosophical Analysis in the Twentieth Century, Volume 2: The Age of Meaning: Books: Scott Soames (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
		Soames has applied his formidable forensic talents to highlight the insights and expose the errors of the major figures from Moore to Kripke.
		Soames himself is doing cutting-edge work in core areas of analytic philosophy and is thus able to bring a level of philosophical sophistication to his treatment that few have available to them.
		Soames' book fills the bill nicely, tracing the large patterns of development and at the same time working through key arguments and controversies in some decent detail.
	amazon.com /exec/obidos/ASIN/0691123128 (1714 words)

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