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SCOTT SOAMES USC School of Philosophy 3709 Trousdale Parkway
Los Angeles, CA 90089-0451 [email protected] / (213) 740-0798
December 10, 2020
EDUCATION
Stanford University, BA., 1968 Massachusetts Institute of
Technology, Ph.D. Philosophy, 1976
ACADEMIC HONORS
Phi Beta Kappa, 1967 Danforth Graduate Fellow, 1971-76 Woodrow
Wilson Graduate Fellow, 1971
AWARDS AND FELLOWSHIPS
American Academy of Arts and Sciences, elected in 2010.
Albert S. Raubenheimer Award for excellence in research,
teaching, and service, 2009. The Raubenheimer is the highest
faculty honor of the College of Letters, Arts, and Sciences of the
University of Southern California.
Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences Fellowship
1998-99 Academic Year.
John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation Fellowship 1989- 90.
Title of Project: "Truth and Meaning"
Class of 1936 Bicentennial Preceptorship, Princeton University,
1982-1985
National Endowment for the Humanities Research Fellowship for
1978-79. Title of Project: "The Philosophical Investigation of
Linguistic Theory"
ACADEMIC POSITIONS
Director of the School of Philosophy, University of Southern
California, August 2007 –
Distinguished Professor, Department of Philosophy, University of
Southern California, 2011 –
Professor, Department of Philosophy, University of Southern
California, 2004 - 2010
Professor, Department of Philosophy, Princeton University, July
1989 - 2004
Associate Professor, Department of Philosophy, Princeton
University, July 1985 - June 1989
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Assistant Professor, Department of Philosophy, Princeton
University, September 1980 - June 1985
Assistant Professor, Department of Philosophy, Yale University,
January 1976 - June 1980
Instructor, Linguistics Department, M.I.T., 1974-75
VISITING POSITIONS
Franklin Pease Garcia Visiting Professor, Department of
Humanities, Catholic Pontifical University of Peru, Lima Peru, May
18 – June 25, 2015.
Visiting Professor, Department of Philosophy, Graduate School
& University Center, City University of New York, Spring
1997.
Visiting Professor, Department of Philosophy, University of
Washington, Summer 1989
Visiting Associate Professor, Department of Philosophy,
University of Washington, January 1986 - June 1986, Summers 87,
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EDITING
Editor-in-Chief, The Princeton Series in the Foundations of
Contemporary Philosophy -- a series of state-of-the-art books on
important areas of research in contemporary analytic philosophy,
written by leading experts in their fields. Each book is a
high-level introduction to advanced thinking in an area. Although
major questions and approaches are covered, the books are neither
neutral literature surveys, nor highly specialized contributions
filling gaps in already well-known research programs. Instead, each
presents the author’s unifying vision of a field or topic as it is
exists today – its recent history and leading themes, its
significant new developments, and its most important unanswered
questions. The series premise is that with so much specialized work
being done on so many topics, there is a need to articulate
synoptic views of active research areas, with an eye to developing
common understandings and charting future progress. The books are
designed to appeal to advanced undergraduates and graduate
students, to provide specialists with new ideas and unifying
perspectives, and to offer comprehensible explanations of
neighboring fields to other working professionals.
In addition to creating the series, choosing the authors and
topics, and reviewing the manuscripts, I wrote the book in the
Philosophy of Language. Other published books in the series include
Philosophical Logic, Philosophy of Law, Truth, Epistemology,
Philosophy of Physics: Space and Time,
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Philosophy of Physics: Quantum Theory, Philosophy of Biology,
and Philosophy of Mathematics. Books under contract and currently
in progress include Philosophy of Natural Science, Metaphysics,
Modality, Philosophy of Mind, Decision Theory, Ethics, Metaethics,
Moral Responsibility, Political Philosophy, and Moral Psychology
and Agency. International Advisory Board, Analytica, a journal for
the study of analytic philosophy and its history, published by EL
Centro do Estudios de Filosopfia Analitica, Universidad Nacional
Mayor de San Marcos Press, Lima Peru.
Editorial Advisory Board for Philosophical Perspectives, 2004
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Consulting Editor, Oxford International Encyclopedia of
Linguistics, Second Edition, Oxford University Press, 2003. In
addition to contributing 2 articles, I selected, oversaw and edited
10 others.
Associate Editor, Linguistics and Philosophy, Reidel Publishing
Company, April 1993 - Sept. 1997.
Consulting Editor, Bradford Books, M.I.T. Press, 1982-1992.
Associate Editor, Linguistics and Philosophy, Reidel Publishing
Company, September 1982-1989.
Topic Editor, Oxford International Encyclopedia of Linguistics,
Oxford University Press, 1987-1989.
Editorial Board, Studies in Linguistics and Philosophy, Reidel
Publishing Company, 1984-1989
PROFESSIONAL ACTIVITIES
Chair of Selection Committee Humanities and Social Science
Category 400,000 Euro Frontiers of Knowledge Award BBVA Foundation
Madrid, Spain, April 2019 Outside departmental reviewer and
co-author of five-year report evaluating the Department of
Philosophy, California State Polytechnic University at San Luis
Obispo, November 2005, October, 2011.
Member of the Nominating Board for The Philosopher’s Annual,
which selects the 10 best articles in philosophy published each
year, 2011 -
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Member of the board of evaluators for philosophy of language,
the history of analytic philosophy, and for overall departmental
strength, for the Leiter Report, 2009 -
Advisory Committee to the Program Committee, Eastern Division of
the American Philosophical Association, 2000 -- 2007
Chair of Program Committee for Philosophy of Linguistics, 10th
International Congress of Logic, Methodology and Philosophy of
Science, 1995
Advisory Committee to the Program Committee, Eastern Division of
the American Philosophical Association, 1993-97.
Visiting Committee for the Department of Linguistics and
Philosophy, M.I.T., 1985-1996.
Program Committee of the 9th International Congress of Logic,
Methodology and Philosophy of Science, Section 14, Linguistics and
Philosophy of Language, 1991.
NEH Review Panel for Philosophy and Linguistics, Summer Seminar
Program for College Teachers, 1980.
Representative from philosophy on the Alfred P. Sloan
Foundation's "State of the Art Committee On Cognitive Science,"
1978. I authored the section on the Philosophy of Language in the
Committee's final report
FORTHCOMING PUBLICATIONS
Forthcoming Books and Translations
La Filosofia Analitica llega a la Mayoria de Edad: Wittgenstein,
Schlick, Carnap, Gödel, and Tarski (translation of the Second Lima
Lectures), Tecnos Press (a division of the Anaya Publishing Group
in Spain) in cooperation with the University Press of the
Pontifical Catholic University of Peru. The book is based on 8
lectures givin in 2017 at PUCP.
Translations of My Books Translation of The World Philosophy
Made into Chinese: Ginkgo
(Beijing) Book Co., a frequent partner with OUP, CUP, &
Wilely
Translation of The World Philosophy Made into Arabic: Al Mada
Group for Media, Culture, and Arts, Bagdad Iraq; publisher of books
in science, history, humanities, politics, and the arts. Recent
licenses include On Human Nature by Roger Scruton and On the Future
by Martin Rees.
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Translation of The World Philosophy Made into Turkish: Totem
Yayiniary. Totem publishes fiction and non-fiction titles, with a
particular focus on literature, philosophy, psychology and
politics, including both classic and contemporary works. The
philosophy list includes acclaimed international philosophers such
as Friedrich Nietzsche
Forthcoming Articles
"Cognitive Propositions, Truth Functions, and the Tractatus" to
appear in a special issue of Inquiry edited by Peter Hanks.
"Meaning, Legislative Content, and the Resolution of
Inconsistencies" to appear in a volume edited by Lawrence Alexander
in Law and Philosophy
"Precis of THE WORLD PHILOSOPHY MADE" AND "Reply to Critics:
Burgess, Solum, and Press" in PHILOSOPHICAL STUDIES
"Anti-Descriptivism 2.0" PHILOSOPHICAL STUDIES
Review of Roads to Reference, by Mario Gomez-Torrente in
Teoria.
“Viennese Lessons: Wittgenstein, Carnap, and Schlick,” Vienna
Circle Institute Yearbook, SPRINGER
"Philosophy of Language in the Twenty-First Century," in
Cambridge Handbook in the Philosophy of Language, Piotr
Stalmaszczyk, editor, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
“Propositions” forthcoming in the Rutledge Handbook of
Propositions, Chris Tillman, editor.
PUBLICATIONS
2019 – to the present
BOOKS
The World Philosophy Made: From Plato to the Digital Age,
Princeton and Oxford: Princeton Univ. Press, 2019, 439 pages.
El Surgimiento de la Filosophia Analytica: Frege, Moore, Russell
y Wittgenstein translated by Francisco Melgar Wong, Jaime Castillo
Gamboa, Pamela Lastres Dammert, Eduardo Villanueva Chingne; ed.
Educard Villanueva Chigne. Tecnos Press (a division of the Anaya
Publishing Group in Spain) in cooperation with the University Press
of the Pontifical Catholic University of Peru, 2019, 265 pages. The
book is based on 8 lectures given in English June 2015 at PUCP.
ARTICLES "The Fruits of the Causal Theory of Reference,"
Routledge
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Handbook on Linguistic Reference,Heimir Geirson, ed, Routledge,
2020, pp. 82-93.
"To What Should Originalists Be Faithful,"SSRN Research Papers,
https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://ssrn.com/author=659784__;!!LIr3w8kk_Xxm!9E2RLP4Kh89UD7IxC_YvVLmM4XSfLcox39jMlINlgcGJ_k9vRg4Q4qfVKsXIqQ$
"Originalism and Legitimacy," GEORGETOWN JOURNAL OF LAW AND
PUBLIC POLICY; Vol. 18, issue 2, 2020; pp. 242-85.
Review of Frege’s Detour, by John Perry, in the Notre Dame
Philosophical Review of Books; 2020.06.35; ndpr.nd.edu
“What do we know about numbers and propositions and how do we
know it?,” ORGANON F: International Journal of Analytic Philosophy,
On Line First, March 1, 2020, pp. 1-20,
https://www.organonf.com/journal/soames/
Preface to Chinese translations of volumes 1 and 2 of my
Philosophical Analysis in the Twentieth Century, by Haixia Zhong
and Ligeng Zhang, Hauxia Publishing House, China, 2019.
“Analytic Philosophy of Language: From First Philosophy to the
Foundations of the Science of Language,” Cambridge History of
Philosophy: 1945-2010, Becker and Thomson, eds. Cambridge
University Press, 2019, 17-32
Précis, The Analytic Tradition in Philosophy, Vol. 2, A New
Vision" PHILOSOPHICAL STUDIES, vol. 176, No. 5, 2019, 1341-45.
"The Richness of Our Tradition: Replies to Preston,
Gomez-Torrente, and Hanks," PHILOSOPHICAL STUDIES, vol. 176, No. 5,
2019, 1377-1390.
“Antonin Scalia’s Philosophy of Legal Interpretation,” pp.
21-34, in Justice Scalia: Rhetoric and the Rule of Law, Brian
Slocum, ed., Chicago University Pres,2019.
2014 - 2018
BOOKS
The Analytic Tradition in Philosophy, Vol. 2, A New
Philosophical Vision,(Princeton and Oxford: Princeton University
Press, 2018, 423 pages.
Rethinking Language, Mind, and Meaning: The Hempel Lectures,
(Princeton University Press), 2015, 241 pages.
The Analytic Tradition in Philosophy, Vol. 1, The Founding
Giants: Frege, Moore, Russell,(Princeton University Press), 2014,
657 pages.
Analytic Philosophy in America, and Other Historical and
Contemporary Essays, (Princeton University Press),2014, 350
pages.
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New Thinking about Propositions, with Jeff Speaks, Jeff King
(Oxford University Press), 2014, 252 pages.
ARTICLES
“Forward,” in Willard, D. et.al., The Disappearance of Moral
Knowledge, New York and London, Routledge, 2018.
“Rejecting Excluded Middle,” The Sorites Paradox, Oms &
Zardini eds., (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2018,
141-159.
“Cognitive Propositions in Realist Linguistics,” in Christina
Behme and Martin Neef, eds., Essays on Linguistic Realism (John
Benjamines: NL), 2018, 235-254.
“Kripke on Mind-Body Identity,” in Dale Jacquette, ed., The
Bloomsbury Companion to the Philosophy of Consciousness, (London:
Bloomsbury Publishing), 2018, 170-184.
“Deferentialism, Living Originalism, and the Constitution,”
Brian Slocum, ed., The Nature of Legal Interpretation: What jurists
can learn about legal interpretation from linguistics and
philosophy,(Chicago: U. of Chicago Press)2017, 218-240.
“Reply to Rosen,” in Brian Slocum, ed., The Nature of Legal
Interpretation, (Chicago: University of Chicago Press), 2017,
272-281.
“The Changing Role of Language in Analytic Philosophy,” in Aaron
Preston, ed., Analytic Philosophy: An Interpretive History, New
York: Routledge, 2017, 34-51.
Precis: Rethinking Language, Mind, and Meaning, PHILOSOPHICAL
STUDIES, vol. 173, No. 9, 2016, 2579-2532.
“Yes, Explanation is All We Have,” PHILOSOPHICAL STUDIEs, Vol.
173, No. 9, 2016, 2565-2573.
“Propositions, the Tractatus, and “The Single Great Problem of
Philosophy,” CRITICA, vol. 48, No. 143, 2016, 3-19.
“Propositions as Cognitive Acts,” SYNTHESE: An International
Journal of Epistemology, Methodology, and Philosophy of
Science,2016, published first on Aug., 2, 2016 in the “Online
First” electronic version of the journal; print publication, April
2019, vol. 196, 1369-1383.
“Methodology in Late 19th and Early 20th Century Analytic
Philosophy,” in Cappelen, Gendler, and Hawthorne, eds., The Oxford
Handbook of Philosophical Methodology, (Oxford: Oxford University
Press), 2016, 49-68. Reprinted in Soames, Analytic
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Philosophy in America, and Other Historical and Contemporary
Essays, (Princeton and Oxford: Princeton U. Press),2014,
139-166.
“Précis”; Symposium on The Analytic Tradition in Philosophy,
Volume 1. By Scott Soames (Princeton University Press, 2015),
PHILOSOPHICAL STUDIES, 2015, vol. 172, No. 6, pp. 1647-1650.
“Reply to Critics” (Beaney, Kelly and McGrath, Pigden),
Symposium on The Analytic Tradition in Philosophy, Volume 1. By
Scott Soames (Princeton University Press, 2015), PHILOSOPHICAL
STUDIES, vol. 172, No. 6, pp. 1681-1696.
“David Lewis’s Place in Analytic Philosophy,” in A Companion to
David Lewis, edited by Barry Loewer and Jonathan Schaffer,
Wiley-Blackwell, 2015, 80-98.
“Epistemic Intensions,” PHILOSOPHY AND PHENOMENOLOGICAL
RESEARCH, LXXXIX, No. 1, 2014, 986-994.
“Preface,” Metasemantics, Alexis Burgess and Brett Sherman,
eds., Oxford University Press, 2014.
“For Want of Cognitive Propositons: A History of Insights and
Missed Philosophical Opportunities” in Analytic Philosophy in
America, and Other Essays, Princeton University Press, 2014,
71-103.
“What is the Frege/Russell Analysis of Quantification?” in
Analytic Philosophy in America, and Other Essays, Princeton
University Press, 2014, 191-199.
“Language, Meaning, and Information: A Case Study on the Path
from Philosophy to Science,” in Analytic Philosophy in America, and
Other Essays, Princeton University Press, 2014, 60-70.
2009-2013
BOOKS
Philosophy of Language, The Princeton Series in the Foundations
of Contemporary Philosophy, (Princeton and Oxford: Princeton
University Press), 189 pages.
What is Meaning?, Soochow Lectures in Philosophy, (Princeton and
Oxford: Princeton University Press), 2010, 132 pages.
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Philosophical Essays – Vol. 1: Natural Language: What it Means
and How We Use It (Princeton and Oxford: Princeton University
Press), 2009, 428 pages.
Philosophical Essays-Vol. 2: The Philosophical Significance of
Language, (Princeton and Oxford: Princeton University Press), 2009,
461 pages.
EDITED BOOK
With Andrei Marmor, Philosophical Foundations of Law and
Language, (Oxford: Oxford University Pres), 2011.
Articles
“Cognitive Propositions,” PHILOSOPHICAL PERSPECTIVES: PHILOSOPHY
OF LANGUAGE, Volume 27, 2013, 479-501.
“Quine’s Position in the History of Analytic Philosophy,” for A
Companion to W.V.O. Quine, edited by Gilbert Harman and Ernie
Lepore, Wiley-blackwell, 2013, 432-464.
“Deferentialism: A Post-Originalist Theory of Legal
Interpretation,” FORDHAM LAW REVIEW, Vol. 82, No. 2, November 2013,
597-617.
“Two Versions of Millianism” in, Campbell, Joseph, Michael
O’Rourke, and Harry Silverstein, eds, Reference and Referring,
Topics in Philosophy, Vol 10 (Cambridge: MIT Press), 2012,
83-118.
“Vagueness and the Law,” in Andrei Marmor, ed., Routledge
Companion to the Philosophy of Law,(New York: Routledge), 2012,
95-108.
“Propositions,” in Delia Graff Fara and Gillian Russell, eds.,
The Routledge Companion to the Philosophy of Language, Routledge
Pres, 2012, 209-220.
“Toward a Theory of Interpretation,” THE NYU JOURNAL OF LAW AND
LIBERTY, 2011, 6:231-259.
“Kripke on Epistemic and Metaphysical Possibility: Two Routes to
the Necessary A Posteriori” for Saul Kripke, Alan Berger, ed.,
(Cambridge: Cambridge University Press), 2011, 78-99.
“What Vagueness and Inconsistency Tell us about Interpretation”
Marmor and Soames, eds., Philosophical Foundations of Law and
Language, (Oxford: Oxford University Press), 2011, 31-57.
“True at,” ANALYSIS, 71, 1, 2010, 124-133.
“Coordination Problems,” PHILOSOPHY AND PHENOMENOLOGICAL
RESEARCH, Vol. 81, 2010, 464-474.
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“What are Natural Kinds?” PHILOSOPHICAL TOPICS Vol. 35, Nos: 1
& 2, 2007, 329-342. Actually published 2010.
“Interpreting Legal Texts: What is, and what is not, special
about the law,” in Philosophical Essays, Vol. 1, 2009, 403-423.
“The Possibility of Partial Definition,” in Philosophical Essays
Volume 2, 2009, 362-381.
“The Gap between Meaning and Assertion: Why what we literally
say often differs from what our words literally mean,” in
Philosophical Essays, Vol. 1, 2009, 278-297.
“Ontology, Analyticity, and Meaning: The Quine-Carnap Dispute,”
in Chalmers, David; Manley, David; and Wasserman, Brian; eds.,
Metametaphysics: New Essays at the Foundations of Ontology;(Oxford:
Oxford University Press), 2009, 424-443.
“Meaning, Implicature, and Assertion,” in Dagfinn Follesdal and
John Woods, eds., Logos and Language: Essays in Honor of Julius
Moravcsik, (London: The Tribute Series, College Publications),
2009.
2004 – 2008
BOOK
Reference and Description: The Case Against Two-Dimensionalism,
(Princeton and Oxford: Princeton University Press),2005,359
pages.
Articles
“Truth and Meaning – in Perspective,” in Peter French, ed.,
Truth and its Deformities, MIDWEST STUDIES IN PHILOSOPHY, Vol.
XXXII, 2008, 1-19. Also in Philosophical Essays, Volume 1.
“Truthmakers?”, Symposium Truth and Ontology by Trenton
Merricks, PHILOSOPHICAL BOOKS, 49, 4, 2008, 317-27.
“Analytic Philosophy in America,” in The Oxford Handbook of
American Philosophy, Cheryl Misak, ed., (Oxford University Press),
2008, 449-481.
“Drawing the Line Between Meaning and Implicature – and Relating
both to Assertion”, NOUS,42:3, 2008, 529-554; also in Philosophical
Essays, Volume 1.
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“Why Propositions Can’t be Sets of Truth-Supporting
Circumstances,” JOURNAL OF PHILOSOPHICAL LOGIC, 37, 2008, 267-276;
also in Philosophical Essays, Volume 2.
“No Class: Russell on Contextual Definition and the Elimination
of Sets,” PHILOSOPHICAL STUDIES, 139, 2008, 213-218.
Précis for symposium on Philosophical Analysis in the Twentieth
Century, Volume 2. By Scott Soames (Princeton University Press,
2003), PHILOSOPHICAL STUDIES, 135,3, 2007, 425-428.
“What we know now that we didn’t know then: Reply to Critics”
for symposium on Philosophical Analysis in the Twentieth Century,
Vol. 2. By Scott Soames (Princeton University Press, 2003),
PHILOSOPHICAL STUDIES, 135, 2007, 461-478.
“The Quine-Carnap Debate on Analyticity and Ontology,” SOOCHOW
JOURNAL OF PHILOSOPHICAL STUDIES, Taipei Taiwan, Number 16, August
2007.
“Actually,” PROCEEDINGS OF THE ARISTOTELIAN SOCIETY,
Supplementary Vol. LXXXI, 2007, 251-277. Also in Philosophical
Essays, Volume 2.
“Saul Kripke” BRITANNICA CONCISE ENCYCLOPEDIA, 2007,
Encyclopedia Britannica
Online:http.britannica.com.ebc/article–259648.
“The Substance and Significance of the Dispute over
Two-Dimensionalism: Reply to Dever, Jackson, and Lowe,” Symposium
on my Reference and Description (Princeton University Press, 2005),
in PHILOSOPHICAL BOOKS, vol. 48, January 2007, 34-49.
“Ambitious Two-Dimensionalism,” in Mathew Davidson, ed., On
Sense and Direct Reference: A Reader in the Philosophy of Language,
(McGraw-Hill), 2007, 690-718. Also in Philosophical Essays, Volume
2.
“The Philosophical Significance of the Kripkean Necessary
Aposteriori,” PHILOSOPHICAL ISSUES, Vol. 16, E. Sosa and E,
Villanueva (eds.), (Blackwell Publishing Co.), 2006, 287-309. Also
in Philosophical Essays, Volume 2.
“Understanding Assertion,” in Judith Jarvis Thompson and Alex
Byrne, eds., Content and Modality: Themes from the Philosophy of
Robert Stalnaker, (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2006), 222-250.
Also in Philosophical Essays, Volume 2.
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“Descriptive Names vs Descriptive Anaphora,” Symposium on Terms
and Truth, by Alan Berger (MIT Press, 2002), in PHILOSOPHY AND
PHENOMENOLOGICAL RESEARCH, LXXII, 3, 2006, 665-673.
“Is H2O a liquid, or Water a gas?,” PHILOSOPHY AND
PHENOMENOLOGICAL RESEARCH, Vol. 72, No. 3, 2006, 635-639.
“Hacker’s Complaint,” PHILOSOPHICAL QUARTERLY, Vol. 56, No. 224,
July 2006, pp. 426-435.
Précis” for Symposium on Philosophical Analysis in the Twentieth
Century, Vol. 1: The Dawn of Analysis by Scott Soames (Princeton
University Press, 2003), PHILOSOPHICAL STUDIES, Vol. 129, No. 3,
2006, 605-608.
“What Is History For?: Reply to Critics of The Dawn of Analysis”
for Symposium on Philosophical Analysis in the Twentieth Century,
Volume 1, (Princeton University Press, 2003),PHILOSOPHICAL STUDIES,
Vol. 129, No. 3, 2006, 645-665.
“Saul Kripke, the Necessary Aposteriori, and the Two
Dimensionalist Heresy” in M. Garcia-Carpintero and J. Macia, eds.,
The Two-Dimensional Framework: Foundations and Applications,
(Oxford: Oxford University), 2006, 272-292.
“Précis” for Symposium on Beyond Rigidity, by Scott Soames
(Oxford University Press, 2002), in PHILOSOPHICAL STUDIES, 128,
2006, 645 – 654.
“Reply to Critics,” (Linsky, Richard, Braun and Sider) for
Symposium on Beyond Rigidity in PHILOSOPHICAL STUDIES, 128, 2006,
711 – 738. “Philosophical Analysis,” Encyclopedia of Philosophy,
Second Edition, Macmillan, 2006, Volume 1, 144 – 157.
“Propositional Attitudes,” Encyclopedia of Philosophy, Second
Edition, Macmillan, 2006, Volume 8, 74 – 79.
“Entailment, Presupposition, and Implicature,” Encyclopedia of
Philosophy, Second Edition, Macmillan, 2006, Volume 3, 250–254.
“Reply to Pincock,” _RUSSELL_: THE JOURNAL OF BERTRAND RUSSELL
STUDIES, Vo. 25, No. 2, winter 2005-06, 172-7.
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“Why Incomplete Definite Descriptions do not Defeat Russell’s
Theory of Descriptions,” TEOREMA, Vol. XXIV, No. 3, 2005, 7-30.
TEOREMA is a Spanish Journal, the issue is special edition
commemorating 100th anniversary of “On Denoting.” Also in
Philosophical Essays, Volume 1. “Reference and Description”, Oxford
Handbook of Contemporary Analytic Philosophy, Frank Jackson and
Michael Smith, editors, (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2005,
397- 425.
“Beyond Rigidity: Reply to McKinsey,” CANADIAN JOURNAL OF
PHILOSOPHY, March 2005, 169-178.
“Naming and Asserting” in Semantics vs. Pragmatics edited by
Zoltan Szabo, (New York and Oxford: Oxford University Press), 2005,
356-382. Also in Philosophical Essays, Volume 1.
“Reply to Ezcurdia and Gomez-Torrente,” Response to review
essays on my Beyond Rigidity (New York: Oxford University Press)
2002, in the Spanish / English journal CRITICA, Vol. 36, Issue 108,
December, 2004, 83-114.
“Knowledge of Manifest Natural Kinds,” FACTA PHILOSOPHICA, Vol.
6, No. 2, 2004, 159-181. Also in Philosophical Essays, Volume
2.
1999 - 2003
BOOKS
Philosophical Analysis in the Twentieth Century, Volume 1: The
Dawn of Analysis, (Princeton and Oxford: Princeton University
Press), 2003, 430 pages.
Philosophical Analysis in the Twentieth Century, Volume 2: The
Age of Meaning (Princeton and Oxford: Princeton University Press),
2003, 501 pages. Beyond Rigidity: The Unfinished Semantic Agenda of
Naming and Necessity, (New York: Oxford University Press) 2002, 379
pages.
Understanding Truth, (New York: Oxford University Press)1999,
268 pages.
Articles
“Higher-Order Vagueness for Partially Defined Predicates,” in
Liars and Heaps: New Essays on Paradox, edited by J.C. Beall and
Michael Glanzberg, (New York and Oxford: OUP) 2003, 128-50. Also in
Philosophical Essays, Volume 2.
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“Understanding Deflationism,” PHILOSOPHICAL PERSPECTIVES, Vol.
17, 2003, 369-383. Also in Philosophical Essays, Volume 2. “Truth
and Meaning: The Role of Truth in the Semantics of Propositional
Attitude Ascriptions,” in Proceedings of the 7th International
Colloquium on Cognitive Science, edited by Kepa Korta and Jesus M.
Larrazabal, (Dordrecht: Kluwer),2003, 21-44.
“Philosophy of Language,” Overview article in the Oxford
International Encyclopedia of Linguistics, Second Edition, William
Frawley Editor in Chief, (Oxford and New York: Oxford University
Press), 2003, 268-275.
“Pragmatics and Contextual Semantics,” Overview article in the
Oxford International Encyclopedia of Linguistics, Second Edition,
William Frawley Editor in Chief, (Oxford and New York: Oxford
University Press), 2003, 379-381.
“Précis to Understanding Truth”, and “Replies to Gupta, McGrath,
Tappenden, and Williamson,” Book Symposium in PHILOSOPHY AND
PHENOMENOLOGICAL RESEARCH Vol. LXV, No. 2, September 2002, 397-401
and 429-452.
"The Indeterminacy of Translation and the Inscrutability of
Reference", THE CANADIAN JOURNAL OF PHILOSOPHY, Volume 29, Number
3, 1999, 321–370.
1994 - 1998
"The Modal Argument: Wide Scope and Rigidified Descriptions,"
NOUS, Vol. XXXII, No. 1, 1998, 1-22. Also in Philosophical Essays,
Volume 2.
"Facts, Truth Conditions, and the Skeptical Solution to the
Rule-Following Paradox", in PHILOSOPHICAL PERSPECTIVES, Vol. 12,
Language, Mind and Ontology, James Tomberlin, ed., Blackwell, 1998,
313–348. Also in Philosophical Essays, Vol. 2. "Skepticism about
Meaning: Indeterminacy, Normativity, and the Rule Following
Paradox", THE CANADIAN JOURNAL OF PHILOSOPHY, Supplementary Volume
23, (1997), Meaning and Reference, Ali A. Kazmi (ed.), 1998,
211–249. Also in Philosophical Essays, Volume 2.
"More Revisionism about Reference," in The New Theory of
Reference, P. W. Humphreys and J. H. Fetzer (eds.), Kluwer,
1998, 65-87.
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"The Truth about Deflationism," PHILOSOPHICAL ISSUES, Vol. 8,
Enrique Villanueva (ed.), Ridgeview Publishing Co., Atascadero
California, 1997, 1-44.
"Reply to Garcia-Carpintero and Richard," PHILOSOPHICAL ISSUES,
Vol. 8, Enrique Villanueva (ed.), Ridgeview Publishing Co.,
Atascadero California, 1997, 79-93.
"Beyond Singular Propositions?," THE CANADIAN JOURNAL OF
PHILOSOPHY, Vol. 25, No. 4, 1995, 515-550. "T-Sentences," in
Modality, Morality, and Belief: Essays in Honor of Ruth Barcan
Marcus, edited by Asher, Raffman, and Sinnott-Armstrong, Cambridge
University Press, 1995, 250-270. “Revisionism about Reference: A
Reply to Smith”, SYNTHESE, 104/2, 1995, 191-216.
"Donnellan's Referential / Attributive Distinction,"
PHILOSOPHICAL STUDIES, 73, 1994, 149-168. Also in Philosophical
Essays, Volume 1.
"Attitudes and Anaphora, PHILOSOPHICAL PERSPECTIVES, Vol. 8,
Philosophy of Language and Logic, edited by James Tomberlin,
Ridgeview Publishing Co., 1994, 251-272. Also in Philosophical
Essays, Volume 2.
1989 – 1993
"Introduction to Section on Truth and Meaning," in Basic Topics
in the Philosophy of Language: a collection of readings edited by
R. M. Harnish, Harvester Wheatsheaf, 1993, 493-516.
"Truth, Meaning, and Understanding," PHILOSOPHICAL STUDIES, 65,
1992, 17-35. Also in Philosophical Essays, Volume 1.
"The Necessity Argument," LINGUISTICS AND PHILOSOPHY, Vol. 14,
1991, 575-580. Also in Philosophical Essays, Vol. 1.
"Philosophy of Language: An Overview," Oxford International
Encyclopedia of Linguistics, Vol. 3, William Bright
editor-in-chief, 1991, 188-92. "Pronouns and Propositional
Attitudes," in THE PROCEEDINGS OF THE ARISTOTELIAN SOCIETY, Vol.
XC, 1990, 191-212.
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"Belief and Mental Representation," in Vancouver Studies in
Cognitive Science, Vol. 1: Information, Language and Cognition,
Philip Hanson, ed., University of British Columbia Press, 1990,
217-246. Also in Philosophical Essays, Vol. 2. "Semantics and
Semantic Competence," PHILOSOPHICAL PERSPECTIVES, Volume 3:
Philosophy of Mind and Action Theory, 1989, 575-596. Also in
Philosophical Essays, Volume 1.
"Direct Reference and Propositional Attitudes," in Themes from
Kaplan, edited by Joseph Almog, John Perry, and Howard Wettstein,
Oxford University Press, 1989, 393-419.
Chapter on Presupposition in Handbook of Philosophical Logic,
Volume 4: Topics in the Philosophy of Language, edited by D. Gabbay
and F. Guenthner, Reidel, 1989, 553-616. Also in Philosophical
Essays, Volume 1. "Subject-Auxiliary Inversion and Gaps in
Generalized Phrase Structure Grammar," LINGUISTICS AND PHILOSOPHY,
Volume 12, No. 3, 1989, 373-82. Review of Generalized Phrase
Structure Grammar by G. Gazdar, E. Klein, G. Pullum and I. Sag, THE
PHILOSOPHICAL REVIEW, Volume XCVIII, No. 4, 1989, 556-566.
Review of Collected Papers by Gareth Evans, THE JOURNAL OF
PHILOSOPHY, LXXXVI, No. 3, 1989, 141-156.
1984 – 1988
EDITED BOOK
Propositions and Attitudes, Oxford Readings in Philosophy, (New
York: Oxford University Press) 1988. Edited, with an introduction,
by Nathan Salmon and Scott Soames.
Articles
Review of Knowing Who, by Stephen Boer and William Lycan, THE
JOURNAL OF SYMBOLIC LOGIC, Volume 53, No. 2, 1988, 657-659.
"Substitutivity," in On Being and Saying: Essays for Richard L.
Cartwright, edited by Judith J. Thomson, MIT Press 1987,
99-132.
"Direct Reference, Propositional Attitudes, and Semantic
Content," PHILOSOPHICAL TOPICS, Vol. 15, No. 1, 1987, 47-87. Also
in Philosophical Essays, Volume 2.
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Review of Logic as Grammar, by Norbert Hornstein, JOURNAL OF
PHILOSOPHY, LXXXIV, No. 8, 1987, 447-455. "Incomplete Definite
Descriptions," NOTRE DAME JOURNAL OF FORMAL LOGIC, Volume 27, No.
3, 1986, 349-375. Also in Philosophical Essays, Volume 1. "Peacocke
on Explanation in Psychology," MIND AND LANGUAGE, Volume 1, No. 4,
1986, 372-387. "Semantics and Psychology," in THE PHILOSOPHY OF
LINGUISTICS, edited by Jerrold J. Katz, Oxford University Press,
1985, 204-226. Also in Philosophical Essays, Volume 1.
"Lost Innocence," LINGUISTICS AND PHILOSOPHY, Volume 8, No. 1,
1985, 59-71. "Linguistics and Psychology," LINGUISTICS AND
PHILOSOPHY, Vol. 7, no. 2, 1984, 155-179. Also in Philosophical
Essays, Vol. 1.
"What is a Theory of Truth?", THE JOURNAL OF PHILOSOPHY, LXXXI,
No. 8, 1984, 411-429. Also Philosophical Essays, Vol. 2.
1979 – 1983
BOOK
Syntactic Argumentation and the Structure of English,
co-authored with David M. Perlmutter, (Berkeley and Los Angeles:
University of California Press) 1979, 602 pages.
Articles
"Generality, Truth Functions, and Expressive Capacity in the
Tractatus," PHILOSOPHICAL REVIEW, XCII, No. 4, 1983, 573-589.
"How Presuppositions are Inherited: A Solution to the Projection
Problem," LINGUISTIC INQUIRY, 13, 3, 1982, 483-545. Review of
Philosophy and Language by Steven Davis, Deep Structure by Douglas
Stalker, and Noam Chomsky: A Philosophic Overview by Justin Leiber,
in METAPHILOSOPHY, Volume 11, number 2, 1980, 155-164. "A
Projection Problem for Speaker Presupposition," LINGUISTIC INQUIRY,
Volume 10, Number 4, 1979, 623-666. Also in Philosophical Essays,
Volume 1.
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Review of Hans Reichenbach's Philosophy of Grammar by W.E.
McMahon, LANGUAGE, Volume 55, number 9, 1979, 690-692.
Pre-1979
BOOK:
An Examination of Frege’s Theory of Presupposition and
Contemporary Alternatives, 1976 MIT Dissertation, (Cambridge Mass.:
MIT Working Papers in Linguistics) 2001.
Articles:
Review of Presupposition by David Cooper and Presuppositions and
Non-Truth-Conditional Semantics by Deirdre Wilson, THE
PHILOSOPHICAL REVIEW, Volume LXXXVI, No. 2, 1977, 274-278.
"Rule Ordering, Obligatory Transformations, and Derivational
Constraints," THEORETICAL LINGUISTICS, Vol. 1, 1974, 116-138.
REPRINTED AND TRANSLATED PAPERS
1. "Analytic Philosophy in America," translated into Chinese and
reprinted in Analytic Philosophy -- Retrospect and Reflection
Volume 1. Bo Chen and Yi Jiang, eds., China Renmin University
Press: Beijing, 2018.
2. “For Want of Cognitive Propositions: A History of Insights
and Missed Philosophical Opportunities” in Moltmann and Textor,
Act-Based Conceptions of Propositional Content: Historical and
Contemporary Perspectives, Oxford University Press.
3. “Beyond Singular Propositions,” Canadian Journal of
Philosophy, Virtual (Online) Issue, July 2, 2013.
http://explore.tandfonline.com/page/ah/canadian-journal-of-philosophy
This issue contains the editors selection of 22 of the best
articles published in the journal from its founding in 1971 to its
40th anniversary in 2011.
4. “Kripke on Epistemic and Metaphysical Possibility: Two Routes
to the Necessary Aposteriori,” translated as “Kripke sobre a
possibilidade epistemica e metafisica: As duas rotas para o
necessario a posteriori” Revista Skepsis, no. 9, vol 6, 2013,
160-188.
5. “Truth, Meaning, and Understanding,” in Andriy Synytsya, ed.,
in Anthology of Contemporary Analytic Philosophy, Lviv: Ukraine:
Litopys Puslishing House, 2013.
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6. "Understanding Assertion", reprinted in Asa Kasher, ed.,
Pragmatics: Critical Concepts II, Vol. 1, Routledge, 2011.
7. "Drawing the Line between Meaning and Implicature – and
Relating Both to Assertion", reprinted in A. Kasher, ed.,
Pragmatics: Critical Concepts II, Vol. 3, Routledge, 2011.
8. “The Possibility of Partial Definition,” is reprinted in
Richard Dietz and Sebastiano Moruzzi, eds., Cuts and Clouds:
Vagueness, its Nature and its Logic, Oxford University Press, 2010,
46-62.
9. “Interpreting Legal Texts: What is Special about the Law and
What is Not,” has been translated into Spanish, and reprinted in
Revista De La Facultad De Derecho De Mexico, no. 235, January to
June, 2009
10. “The Necessary Aposteriori,” from chapter 15 of
Philosophical Analysis in the Twentieth Century, Vol. 2, (Princeton
University Press, 2003), reprinted Mathew Davidson, ed., On Sense
and Direct Reference: A Reader in the Philosophy of Language,
(McGraw-Hill), 2007,950-999.
11. “Rigid Designation and its Lessons for the Semantic Contents
of Proper Names,” from chapter 2 of Beyond Rigidity (Oxford
University Press, 2002), reprinted Mathew Davidson, ed., On Sense
and Direct Reference: A Reader in the Philosophy of Language,
(McGraw-Hill), 2007, 654-689.
12. “Substitutivity,” is reprinted in On Sense and Direct
Reference: A Reader in the Philosophy of Language, (McGraw-Hill),
2007, 327-356.
13. “The Indeterminacy of Translation and the Inscrutability of
Reference,” is reprinted in Meaning, edited by Mark Richard,
Blackwell, 2003.
14a. "The Modal Argument: Wide Scope and Rigidified
Descriptions," reprinted in The Philosopher's Annual, Vol. 21,
edited by Patrick Grim, Peter Ludlow, Gary Mar, and Ken Baynes,
Ridgeview Publishing Co., Atascadero, California, 2000, 221–246.
The volume contains articles selected as the ten best to appear in
print in 1998.
14b. “The Modal Argument” is also translated and published in
The Philosophy of Language, edited by Richard Cedzo and Marian
Zouhar, Kalligram publishers, Bratislava, Slovakia, 2005.
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15. "Incomplete Definite Descriptions," is reprinted in Definite
Descriptions: A Reader, edited by Gary
Ostertag, M.I.T. Press, 1998, 275-308.
16. "Revisionism about Reference: A Reply to Smith," is
reprinted in The New Theory of Reference, P. W. Humphreys and J. H.
Fetzer (eds.) Kluwer, 1998, 13-35.
17. “Direct Reference and Propositional Attitudes,” Spanish
trans. by Dr. J. A. Robles, “Referencia Directa y Actitudes
Proposicionales,” in Pensamiento y Lenguaje: Problemas en la
atribucion de actitudes proposicionales, Margarita Valdes, (ed.),
Instituto de Investigaciones Filosoficas UNAM, Mexico, 1996.
18. "The Necessity Argument," is reprinted in Noam Chomsky:
Critical Assessments, Part 1, Volume 2, edited by Carlos P. Otero,
London: Routledge, 1994, 671-676.
19. "Linguistics and Psychology," is reprinted in Understanding
and Sense, Vol. 1, edited by Christopher Peacocke, Dartmouth, 1993,
219 - 243.
20a. "How Presuppositions are Inherited: A Solution to the
Projection Problem," is reprinted in Pragmatics, edited by Steven
Davis, Oxford University Press, 1991, 428-470.
20b. “How Presuppositions are Inherited” is also reprinted in
Pragmatics: Critical Concepts, volume 4, edited by Asa Kasher,
Routledge, 1998.
21a. "Direct Reference, Propositional Attitudes, and Semantic
Content" is reprinted in Propositions and Attitudes, edited by
Nathan Salmon and Scott Soames, Oxford University Press, 1988,
197-239.
21b. “Direct Reference, Propositional Attitudes, and Semantic
Content” is also reprinted in Readings in the Philosophy of
Language, edited by Peter Ludlow, MIT Press, 1997, 921–962.
21c. “Direct Reference, Propositional Attitudes, and Semantic
Content” is reprinted in Philosophy of Language, Critical Concepts
in Philosophy, Vol. 3, edited by A. P. Martinich, Routledge,
2008.
21d. “Direct Reference, Propositional Attitudes, and
Semantic
content” is also translated and published in The Philosophy of
Language, edited by Richard Cedzo and Marian Zouhar, Kalligram
publishers, Bratislava, Slovakia.
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22a. "Semantics and Semantic Competence" is reprinted in
Cognition and Representation, edited by Stephen Schiffer and Susan
Steele, Westview Press, 1988, 185-207.
22b. “Semantics and Semantic Competence,” is also reprinted in
The Philosopher's Annual, Vol. 11, edited by Patrick Grim, Gary
Mar, and Peter Williams, Ridgeview Press, Atascadero, CA., 1990,
121–160. This volume contains articles selected as -- "the ten best
to appear in print in 1988."
22c. “Semantics and Semantic Competence” is reprinted in
Meaning, edited by Mark Richard, Blackwell, 2003, and in Reading
Philosophy of Language, edited by Jennifer Hornsby and Guy
Longworth, Blackwell, 2005.
22d. “Semantics and Semantic Competence” is reprinted in
Philosophy of Language, Critical Concepts in Philosophy, Vol. 2,
edited by A. P. Martinich, Routledge, 2008.
23. "Lost Innocence" is reprinted in The Philosopher's Annual,
Vol. 8, edited by Patrick Grim, Christopher J. Martin, and Patricia
Athay, Ridgeview Press, Atascadero, Calif., 1987, 260-272. This
volume contains articles selected as --"the ten best to appear in
print in 1985."
24a. "What is a Theory of Truth?" has been translated into
German and published as "Was ist eine Theorie der Wahrheit?" in Der
Wahrheitsbegriff, edited by L. B. Puntel, Eissenschaftliche
Buchgesellschaft, Darmstadt, 1987, 256-283.
24b. "What is a Theory of Truth?" is also reprinted in the
volume, Theories of Truth, edited by Paul Horwich, The
International Research Library of Philosophy, vol. 8, Dartmouth
Publishing Co.,1994.
24c. “What is a Theory of Truth” is also reprinted in The Nature
of Truth: Classic and Contemporary Perspectives, edited by Michael
P. Lynch, M.I.T. Press, 2001, 397–418.
24d. “What is a Theory of Truth” has also been translated into
Hungarian by Laszio Kocsis, in Laszio Kocsis, ed., Az Igazsag
Elmeletei (Theories of Truth), L’Harmattan 2018, 262-279.
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25. "Generality, Truth Functions, and Expressive Capacity in the
Tractatus" is reprinted in The Philosophy of Wittgenstein Vol. 2:
Logic and Ontology, edited by John V. Canfield, Garland Publishing
Company, New York and London, 1986, 317-333.
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Philosophical Analysis in the Twentieth Century: Vol. 1 The Dawn
of Analysis, translated into Chinese by Haixia Zhong and Ligeng
Zhang, Hauxia Publishing House, China, 2019.
Philosophical Analysis in the Twentieth Century: Vol. 2 The Age
of Meaning, translated into Chinese by Ligeng Zhang, Hauxia
Publishing House, China, 2019.
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LECTURES AT COLLEGES AND UNIVERSITIES
University of Alberta, 1986, 2006 University of Arizona, 1985
Arizona State, 1990, 1999, 2004, 2013 University of Barcelona, 2001
University of British Columbia, 1986 Brown University, 2011
University of Calgary, 1986, 1989, 2002, 2006 University of
California at Berkeley, 1984, 1996, 2007 University of California
at Davis, 1990, 1998
University of California at Irvine, 1979, 1997 University of
California at Los Angeles, 1997, 1999, 2002 University of
California at Riverside, 1984, 2015
University of California at Santa Barbara, 1986, 1999 University
of California at Santa Cruz, 1983, 1989, 1990, 1998, 2005
University of California at San Diego, 2005 California Institute of
Technology, 1995 California Polytechnic State University, 1984
California State University at Northridge, 1999 City University of
New York, Graduate Center, 1978, 1987, 1992, 1993, 1994, 1997
University of Connecticut, 2003 Cornell University 1998 Dartmouth
College, 1983 Green River Community College, Auburn, Washington,
1986 University of Illinois, 1985 Harvard University, 1997 Johns
Hopkins, 1988
Monash University, Melbourne, Australia, 1992 M.I.T., 1991, 2010
University of Massachusetts, Amherst, 1988, 2003
University of Maryland, College Park, 1992 McGill University,
2004 University of Missouri, 2009, 2015 University of Nevada at Las
Vegas, 2007 New York University, NYC, 2013
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North Carolina State University, 1985 University of Notre Dame,
2009, 2013 Ohio University, 1999 Pomona College, 1990 University of
Pennsylvania, 1985, 1987, 1992 Princeton University, 1981, 1984,
2001, 2014, 2018 University of Puget Sound, 2012 Reed College, 1996
Rutgers University, 1996, 2015 Texas A&M University, 2020 Simon
Fraser University, 1983, 1986, 1989 University of San Diego Law
School, 2018 University of Southern California, 2003, 2005 Stanford
University, 1979, 1981, 1984, 1986, 1987, 1999, 2006 State
University of New York at Albany, 1979 State University of New York
at Buffalo, 2007
Sydney University, Sydney, Australia, 1992 University of Texas,
2003 Tufts University 1998
Tulane University, 1994 University of Washington, 1981, 1986,
1988 Wayne State University, 1995, 2019 Yale University, 1979,
1983
SPECIAL LECTURES
Logic and Philosophy of Science Faculty Sun Yat-sen
University
Guangzhou, China December 6, 9, 10, 2019
Lecture 1: Propositions and the Metaphysics of Meaning Lecture
2: New Directions in the Theory of Propositions
Lecture 3: Necessity, Apriority, and Actuality
Logic and Philosophy Faculty Shanxi University Taiyuan, China
December 12, 13, 2019
Lecture 1: Propositions and the Metaphysics of Meaning Lecture
2: The Objectivity of Morality and the Meaning of Life
School of Philosophy and Social Development
Shandong University Shandong China December 15, 16 2019
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Lecture 1: The Dawn of Western Philosophy Lecture 2: The
Interpenetration of Philosophy and Science
in the Early Modern Era
School of Philosophy East China Normal University Shanghai,
China December 18, 19, 20, 2019
Lecture 1: The Dawn of Western Philosophy Lecture 2: The
Interpenetration of Philosophy and Science
in the Early Modern Era Lecture 3: The Objectivity of Morality
and the Meaning of Life
Arthur Pap Lecture The Vienna Circle Institute University of
Vienna
Vienna Austria November 26, 2019
Viennese Lessons
Faculty of Philosophy University of Vienna Vienna Austria
November 27, 2019
Analytic Philosophy of Language: From First Philosophy to
Foundations of Linguistic Science
Slovak Academy of Sciences Institute of Philosophy Bratislava,
Slovakia International Conference: Propositions, Reference, and
Meaning
Focused on my work November 28, 29, 2019
Keynote Lecture: What do we know about numbers and propositions
and how do we know it?
Cooley Book Prize Faculty Symposium
Georgetown Center for the Constitution Georgetown Law School
April 12, 2019
Pontifical Catholic University of Peru Lima Peru
May 29 – June 22, 2017
Eight Lectures: Analytic Philosophy Comes of Age: Wittgenstein,
Schlick, Carnap, Godel, and Tarski
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Federalist Society Yale University Law School New Haven, CT
April, 24, 2017
Invited Lecture: Language, Law, and Interpretation
School of Philosophy East China Normal University Shanghai,
China December 7, 2016
Invited Lecture Truth, Representation, and Meaning
School of Philosophy and Social Development Shandong University
Shandong China December 9, 10, 11, 2016
Lecture 1: The Birth of Analytic Philosophy
Lecture 2: Philosophy as the Logical Analysis of Science
Lecture 3: How Philosophy Makes the World: A Case Study in the
Foundations of a Science of Language and Information
School of Philosophy Zhejiang University Hangzhou, China
December 13, 14, 2016
Lecture 1: Truth, Representation, and Meaning, Part One Lecture
2; Truth, Representation, and Meaning, Part Two
Department of Philosophy Institute of Foreign Philosophy The
Center for the Study of Analytic Philosophy
Peking University Beijing China May 9-20, 2016
Lecture 1 Toward a Science of Language and Information Lecture 2
Metaphysics and Epistemology of Information Lecture 3 Actually, Me,
Now Lecture 4 Linguistic Cognition Lecture 5 Perception and
Demonstration Lecture 6 Recognition of Recurrence
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Annual Meeting of the Latin American Association for Analytic
Philosophy University of Costa Rica San Jose, Costa Rica May 28,
2016
Propositions, the Tractatus, and “The Single Great Problem of
Philosophy”
The Pontifical Catholic University of Peru Lima Peru May 18-June
19, 2015
10 Lectures on the Rise of Analytic Philosophy
Center for Law and Cosmopolitan Values Law Faculty, University
of Antwerp Antwerp, Belgium December 3 and 4, 2013
Two Lectures on Law and Language
Philosophy in the Twenty-first Century
University of Augsburg Augsburg, Germany November 26 and 27,
2013 Two Lectures
The Hempel Lectures in Peru Centro de Estudios Filosoficos
Pontifical Catholic University of Peru Lima, Peru May 15, 16, 17,
2013
Three Lecture Series
The Carl Hempel Lectures
Princeton University Department of Philosophy Three Lectures:
April 22, 24, and 26, 2013
Rethinking Language, Mind, and Meaning
Lecture 1: The Metaphysics and Epistemology of Information
Lecture 2: Mind and World: The Two Faces of Content
Lecture 3: Millian Modes of Presentation
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28th Annual Selfridge Lecturer
Lehigh University Bethlehem, Pennsylvania
March 14, 2012
Lecture to the College of Letters, Arts, and Sciences Lehigh
University Bethlehem, Pennsylvania March 13, 2012
Three Seminars to the Faculty Department of Philosophy Lehigh
University March 13, 14, 15, 2012
Center for Consciousness Studies Moscow State University Moscow,
Russia Two Lectures: May 25, 26, 2010
Meaning Modality and Truth Conditions
Meaning and Modality and Truth Conditions Graduate Conference
with Scott Soames University of Cologne May 17, 2010
Keynote Address
Research Conference on the Work of Scott Soames University of
Cologne Cologne, Germany May 19-20, 2010
Two Lectures
Second Annual Soochow Lectures in Philosophy Soochow University
Taipei, Taiwan
June 8, 10, 12 2009
Three Lecture Series
Language, Mind, and Meaning
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Jowett Philosophical Society Oxford University May 16, 2008
University of Kansas Department of Philosophy and the Hall
Center for Humanities Lawrence Kansas March 2008
Public Lecture on Language and the Law
University of Kansas Department of Philosophy Special
Departmental Lecture and Seminar
March 2008
Institut d'Histoire et de Philosophie des Scienceset des
Techniques (IHPST) Paris, France April 18, 19, and 23, 2007
Three Lecture Series
University of Iceland Department of Philosophy Reykjavik,
Iceland
March 29, 2007
University of Southern California The Society of University
Professors December 5, 2005
University of California at Santa Cruz Department of Linguistics
Distinguished Visitor Series Two Lectures: May 18 – 19, 2005
Arizona State University Philosophy Department Onsager Lecture
January 26, 2004.
The 25th annual Gail Stine Memorial Lecture Department of
Philosophy Wayne State University, Detroit Michigan March 23,
2003.
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Instituto De Investigaciones Filosoficas Autonomous University
of Mexico Mexico City October 25–26, 2001
Two Lectures
Jowett Philosophical Society Oxford University Oct. 12, 2001
Instituto De Investigaciones Filosoficas Autonomous University
of Mexico, Mexico City January 26-31, 1996
Three Lecture Series Catedra Jose Gaos, (Jose Gaos honorary
Chair for distinguished visitors) Instituto De Investigaciones
Filosoficas Autonomous University of Mexico April 16 - June 16,
1995
Eight Lecture Series
Instituto De Investigaciones Filosoficas Autonomous University
of Mexico Mexico City January 27-29, 1993
Two lectures
Aristotelian Society London, England April 30, 1990. Cambridge
Moral Sciences Club Cambridge University Cambridge, England May 1,
1990.
Distinguished Visiting Scholar Calgary University Calgary,
Canada October 24-27, 1989
Three Lecture Series
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ADMINISTRATIVE ACTIVITIES
Member of the University Committee on Graduate Enrollment
Management, 2016 –2017. Member of Search Committee for a new Dean
of the Dornsife College of Letters, Arts, and Sciences at USC –
2011-2012.
Speaker, as Representative of the 784 Members of the Faculty of
Letters, Arts, and Sciences, at the March 23, 2011 Ceremony Naming
the USC Dana and David Dornsife College of Letters, Arts and
Sciences
Member Provost Humanities Advisory Committee, USC 2011.
Member of Provost’s Ad-Hoc Advisory Committee on Law School
Request to Grant Juris Doctorate, May 2011.
Member of Faculty Tenure and Privileges Appeals Committee, USC,
2009 – 2014.
Member of the University Committee on Appointments, Promotions,
and Tenure, USC, Fall 2007 – 2014.
Member of the College of Letters, Arts, Sciences Committee on
Appointments, Promotions, and Tenure, USC, Fall, 2006
Member of USC Task Force on Graduate Education, 2005-6
Placement Officer, Princeton Philosophy Department, 1986-1989,
1996 – 1998, 2000.
Director of Graduate Studies, Princeton Philosophy Department,
1990-1994. Acting Head of the Program of Linguistics, Princeton
University, January 1987-June 1987. Interdepartmental Committee on
Linguistics, Princeton University, 1982-3, 1986-9.
Interdepartmental Committee for Cognitive Studies, Princeton
University, 1986-9.
Yale College Course of Study Committee, 1977-78.
