SCOTT SOAMES USC School of Philosophy 3709 Trousdale Parkway Los Angeles, CA 90089-0451 [email protected] / (213) 740-0798 July,2021
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SCOTT SOAMES USC School of Philosophy 3709 Trousdale Parkway Los Angeles, CA 90089-0451 [email protected] / (213) 740-0798 July,2021 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 2 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, 88 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, 3 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 - 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 - 4 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 The World Philosophy Made, Princeton University Press, Paperback Edition. 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. 5 Recent licenses include On Human Nature by Roger Scruton and On the Future by Martin Rees. 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 "Plural Agents, Private Intentions, and Legal Interpretation," Forthcoming: JOURNAL OF CONTEMPORARY LEGAL ISSUES. "Cognitive Propositions, Truth Functions, and the Tractatus" to appear in a special issue of Inquiry edited by Peter Hanks. "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, 26, in The Social-Ethical Dimension of Knowledge: The Mission of Logical Empiricism. Christian Dambock and Adam T. Tuboli, editors. Springer Publications “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. Eduardo 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 "Philosophy of Language in the 21st. Century," in Cambridge Handbook in the Philosophy of Language, Piotr Stalmaszczyk, ed., Cambridge: Cambridge University Press,2021, pp. 89-104 6 "The Fruits of the Causal Theory of Reference," Routledge Handbook on Linguistic Reference,Heimir Geirson, ed, Routledge,