Scott Soames
Scott Soames | |
|---|---|
| Born | 1945 |
| Education | |
| Education | Stanford University (BA) Massachusetts Institute of Technology (PhD, 1976) |
| Thesis | A Critical Examination of Frege's Theory of Presupposition and Contemporary Alternatives (1976) |
| Doctoral advisor | Sylvain Bromberger |
| Philosophical work | |
| Era | Contemporary philosophy |
| Region | Western philosophy |
| School | Analytic |
| Institutions | University of Southern California |
| Main interests | Philosophy of language |
| Notable ideas | Having a belief (the basic representational phenomenon) as explicit predication (explicitly accepting a certain predication) Criticism of semantic two-dimensionalism |
Scott Soames (/soʊmz/; born 1945) is an American philosopher. He is a professor of philosophy at the University of Southern California (since 2004), 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.