Scott Soames

Background

Soames, Scott was born on August 11, 1945 in Temple, Texas, United States. Son of Willard R. and Helen Ruth (Piper) Soames.

Education

Bachelor in Philosophy with great distinction, Stanford University, 1968. Doctor of Philosophy in Philosophy, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1976.

Career

Instructor linguistics Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, 1974-1975, member visiting committee department linguistics and philosophy, 1985—1995. Assistant professor philosophy Yale University, New Haven, 1976-1980, Princeton (New Jersey) University, 1980-1985, associate professor, 1985-1989, professor, 1989—2004, director graduate studies philosophy department, 1990—1994, University Southern California, Los Angeles, since 2004, professor, since 2007, director School Philosophy. Visiting associate professor philosophy University Washington, Seattle, 1986, summers 1987-1988, visiting professor, summer 1989, associate editor, Oxford International Encyclopedia Linguistics 2nd edition, 2003, editor-in-chief, Princeton Series in the Foundations of Contemporary Philosophy, since 2007, Center Advanced Study in Behavioral Fellow, 1998-1999.

Consultant editor Bradford Books, since 1982. Lecturer in field.

Achievements

• Scott Soames has been listed as a noteworthy philosophy educator by Marquis Who's Who.

Works

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  • Philosophy of Language (Princeton Foundations of Contemporary Philosophy)

    ( In this book one of the world's foremost philosophers o...)

  • Beyond Rigidity: The Unfinished Semantic Agenda of Naming and Necessity

    (In this fascinating work, Scott Soames offers a new conce...)

  • (Beyond Rigidity: The Unfinished Semantic Agenda of Naming and Necessity) Author: Scott Soames published on (January, 2002)
  • (Beyond Rigidity: The Unfinished Semantic Agenda of Naming and Necessity) Author: Scott Soames published on (July, 2003)
  • Beyond Rigidity: The Unfinished Semantic Agenda of Naming and Necessity by Soames, Scott (2002) Paperback

Membership

Member American Philosophical Association (eastern division advisory committee to the program committee, since 1993),American Academy Art & Letters, Phi Beta Kappa.

Connections

Son of Willard R. and Helen Ruth (Piper) S. Divorced, 1992; children: Gregory, Brian.

Father:

Willard R. Soames

Mother:

Helen Ruth (Piper) Soames

Spouse:

Martha divorced

child:

Brian Soames

child:

Gregory Soames