SCOTT SOAMES USC School of Philosophy 3709 Trousdale Parkway Los Angeles, CA 90089-0451 [email protected] / (213) 740-0798 March 2015
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SCOTT SOAMES USC School of Philosophy 3709 Trousdale Parkway Los Angeles, CA 90089-0451 [email protected] / (213) 740-0798 March 2015 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 to membership in 2010. Albert S. Raubenheimer Award for excellence in research, teching, 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 2 Professor, Department of Philosophy, Princeton University, July 1989 - 2004 Associate Professor, Department of Philosophy, Princeton University, July 1985 - June 1989 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 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 the most 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 surveys of the literature, nor highly specialized contributions filling gaps in already well-known research programs. Instead, each presents the author’s own unifying vision of a field or topic as it is exists today – its recent history and leading themes, its most exciting new developments, and its most important unanswered questions. The premise of the series is that with so much specialized work being done on so many different topics, there is a need to articulate synoptic views of active areas of research, 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 the new ideas and unifying perspectives of the leaders of their own fields, and to offer compact and comprehensible explanations of neighboring fields to other working professionals. In addition creating the series, choosing the authors and topics, and reviewing the manuscripts, I wrote the book in the philosophy of language. Other books in the series include philosophical logic, modality, truth, vagueness, metaphysics, 3 epistemology, philosophy of physics, philosophy of biology, decision theory, philosophy and economics, normative ethics, meta-ethics, political philosophy, moral psychology, free will and moral responsibility, philosophy of mind, philosophy of psychology and cognitive science, philosophy of law, aesthetics, and philosophy of religion. 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 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 - 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 4 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 BOOK Rethinking Language, Mind, and Meaning: The Hempel Lectures, (Princeton University Press) forthcoming May 2015. ARTICLES “Methodology in Late 19th and Early 20th Century Analytic Philosophy,” in Cappen, Gendler, and Hawthorne, eds., The Oxford Handbook of Philosophical Methodology, Oxford University Press, Reprinted in Soames, Analytic Philosophy in America, and Other Historical and Contemporary Essays, (Princeton University Press),2014, 139-166. “David Lewis’s Contributions to Philosophy,” forthcoming in A Companion toDavid Lewis, edited by Barry Loewer and Jonathan Schaffer, Wiley-Blackwell. PUBLICATIONS 2014 – to the present BOOKS 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. New Thinking about Propositions, with Jeff Speaks, Jeff King (Oxford University Press), 2014, 252 pages. 5 Articles “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. 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. 6 “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 Adnrei Marmor, ed., Routledge Companion to the Philosophy of Law,(New York: Routledge), 2012, 95-108. “Propositions,” in Delia Graff Fara and