SCOTT SOAMES USC School of Philosophy 3709 Trousdale Parkway Los Angeles, CA 90089-0451 [email protected] / (213) 740-0798 December 2017 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, 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 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 2 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, Philosophy of Biology, and Philosophy of Mathematics. Books under contract and currently in progress include Philosophy of Natural Science, Metaphysics, Philosophy of Mind, Decision Theory, Ethics, Metaethics, Moral Responsibility, Philosophy of Religion, and Moral Psychology and Agency. International Advisory Board, Analytica, a journal for the study of analytic philosophy and its history, published by EL 3 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 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. 4 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 BOOKS El Surgimiento de la Filosophia Analytica (translation of the First 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. La Filosofia Analitica llega a la Mayoria de Edad: Wittgenstein, Schlick, Carnap, Godel, 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. ARTICLES “Cognitive Propositions in Realist Linguistics,” forthcoming in Proceedings of the the Foundations of Linguistics Conference, Braunschweig Institute of Technology, Braunschweig, Germany, June 27-27, 2015, Christina Behme and Martin Neef, eds. “Rejecting Excluded Middle,” The Sorites Paradox, Oms and Zardini, eds., Cambridge University Press. “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. “Antonin Scalia’s Philosophy of Legal Interpretation,” Justice Scalia: Rhetoric and the Rule of Law, Brian Slocum, ed., Chicago University Press. PUBLICATIONS 2014 – to the present BOOKS The Analytic Tradition in Philosophy, Vol. 2, A New Philosophical Vision,(Princeton and Oxford: Princeton University Press, 2017, 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 5 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. Articles “Kripke on Mind-Body Identity,” forthcoming in Dale Jacquette, ed., The Bloomsbury Companion to the Philosophy of Consciousness, (London: Bloomsbury Publishing), 2017. “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: University 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,” CRITIC, 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. “Methodology in Late 19th and Early 20th Century