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    The World Philosophy Made: From Plato to the Digital Age

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    How philosophy transformed human knowledge and the world we live inPhilosophical investigation is the root of all human knowledge. Developing new concepts, reinterpreting old truths, and reconceptualizing fundamental questions, philosophy…

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    Reference and Description: The Case Against Two-Dimensionalism

    Scott Soames

    Attempts to defend the revolution in philosophy led by Saul Kripke, Hilary Putnam, and David Kaplan against attack from those wishing to revive descriptivism in the philosophy of language, internalism…

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    Philosophical Essays: Natural Language: What it Means and How We Use it

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    Brings together the important essays written by one of the world’s foremost philosophers of language. This book illustrates the significance of linguistic concerns for a range of philosophical topics -…

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    Philosophical Essays: The Philosophical Significance of Language

    Scott Soames

    Illustrates the significance of linguistic concerns for a broad range of philosophical topics - including the relationship between language and thought; the objects of belief, assertion, and other propositional attitudes…

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    Philosophy of Language

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    Presents the author’s vision of philosophy of language. Explaining the progress philosophers have made toward creating a theoretical framework for the study of language, this book investigates foundational concepts -…

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    Analytic Philosophy in America: And Other Historical and Contemporary Essays

    Scott Soames

    Traces milestones in author’s field from its beginnings in Britain and Germany in the late nineteenth and early twentieth century, through its subsequent growth in the United States, up to…

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    Analytic Philosophy in America: And Other Historical and Contemporary Essays

    Scott Soames

    Traces milestones in author’s field from its beginnings in Britain and Germany in the late nineteenth and early twentieth century, through its subsequent growth in the United States, up to…

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    Philosophical Analysis in the Twentieth Century

    Scott Soames

    A history of analytic philosophy since 1900, this volume takes the story from 1900 to mid-century. Though no broad philosophical position achieved lasting dominance, it argues that two methodological developments…

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    Philosophical Analysis in the Twentieth Century

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    Presents the history of analytic philosophy since 1900. This book argues that two developments have remade the philosophical landscape - analytic philosophers’ success in understanding and distinguishing the notions of…

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    Philosophy of Language

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    Presents the author’s vision of philosophy of language. Explaining the progress philosophers have made toward creating a theoretical framework for the study of language, this book investigates foundational concepts -…

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    What is Meaning?

    Scott Soames

    The tradition descending from Frege and Russell has typically treated theories of meaning either as theories of meanings, or as theories of truth conditions. However, propositions of the classical sort…

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    The Analytic Tradition in Philosophy, Volume 1: The Founding Giants

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    Tells the definitive history of analytic philosophy from the invention of modern logic in 1879 to the end of the twentieth century. This book provides an account of the analytic…

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    The Analytic Tradition in Philosophy, Volume 2: A New Vision

    Scott Soames

    An in-depth history of the linguistic turn in analytic philosophy, from a leading philosopher of language This is the second of five volumes of a definitive history of analytic philosophy…

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    Rethinking Language, Mind, and Meaning

    Scott Soames

    In this book, Scott Soames argues that the revolution in the study of language and mind that has taken place since the late nineteenth century must be rethought. The central…

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    The World Philosophy Made: From Plato to the Digital Age

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    How philosophy transformed human knowledge and the world we live in Philosophical investigation is the root of all human knowledge. Developing new concepts, reinterpreting old truths, and reconceptualizing fundamental questions…

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    Rethinking Language, Mind, and Meaning

    Scott Soames

    In this book, Scott Soames argues that the revolution in the study of language and mind that has taken place since the late nineteenth century must be rethought. The central…

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    Philosophical Foundations of Language in the Law

    This collection brings together the best contemporary philosophical work in the area of intersection between philosophy of language and the law.

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    Philosophical Foundations of Language in the Law

    This collection brings together the best contemporary philosophical work in the area of intersection between philosophy of language and the law.

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    Understanding Truth

    Scott Soames (Professor of Philosophy, Professor of Philosophy, Princeton University)

    Soames illuminates the notion of truth and the role it plays in ordinary thought and scientific theories. The questions investigated include: Why do we need a truth predicate at all…

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    Understanding Truth

    Scott Soames (Professor of Philosophy, Professor of Philosophy, Princeton University)

    Soames illuminates the notion of truth and the role it plays in ordinary thought and scientific theories. The questions investigated include: Why do we need a truth predicate at all…

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    Beyond Rigidity: The Unfinished Semantic Agenda of Naming and Necessity

    Scott Soames (Professor of Philosophy, Professor of Philosophy, Princeton University)

    In Beyond Rigidity, Soames introduces a new conception of the relationship between linguistic meaning and assertion made by utterances. He looks at the meanings of proper names and natural-kind predicates…

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    Beyond Rigidity: The Unfinished Semantic Agenda of Naming and Necessity

    Scott Soames (Professor of Philosophy, Professor of Philosophy, Princeton University)

    Scott Soames uses a new conception of how the meaning of a sentence relates to the information asserted and conveyed by utterances. He argues that the meaning of a linguistically…

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    Syntactic Argumentation and the Structure of English

    Scott Soames,David M. Perlmutter

    Presents the major theoretical developments in generative syntax and the empirical arguments motivating them. This book focuses on syntactic argumentation. Beginning with the fundamentals of generative syntax, it proceeds by…

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    New Thinking about Propositions

    Jeffrey C. King (Rutgers University),Scott Soames (University of Southern California),Jeff Speaks (University of Notre Dame)

    Philosophy, science, and common sense all refer to propositions–things we believe and say, and things which are true or false. But there is no consensus on what sorts of things…

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    New Thinking about Propositions

    Jeffrey C. King (Rutgers University),Scott Soames (University of Southern California),Jeff Speaks (University of Notre Dame)

    Philosophy, science, and common sense all refer to propositions–things we believe and say, and things which are true or false. But there is no consensus on what sorts of things…

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    The Bloomsbury Companion to the Philosophy of Consciousness

    From Descartes and Cartesian mind-body dualism in the 17th century though to 21st-century concerns about artificial intelligence programming, The Bloomsbury Companion to the Philosophy of Consciousness presents a compelling history…

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