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Scott Soames: Works & Career
Scott Soames (/soʊmz/; born 1945) is an American philosopher. He is a distinguished 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…
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Scott Soames topic overview
The analysis highlights Works and Career as prominent areas in the source structure around Scott Soames.
Related topics
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Source areas
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Connected nodes
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Extracted relationships
51
Concept neighborhoods
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Bridge connections
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What this topic covers Research coverage
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Overview · 8 topics
Life and career · 7 topics
Philosophical work · 6 topics
Selected publications · 2 topics
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Education
Stanford University (BA) Massachusetts Institute of Technology (PhD, 1976)
Born
1945 (age 80–81)
Doctoral advisor
Sylvain Bromberger
Doctoral students
Richard Holton
Era
Contemporary philosophy
Institutions
University of Southern California
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How Scott Soames connects Entity context
Entity context groups extracted connections by relationship type. Counts show recurrence in the analyzed source; the examples are research signals, not claims about importance.
The extracted context around Scott Soames shows recurring relationship patterns in the source. For example, Scott Soames → American Academy, Arts, Department, Fellow, Gilbert Harman, He, He's, His, Massachusetts Institute, MIT, Ph, Philosophy, Princeton, Princeton University, Sciences, Since, Soames, Soames's, Southern California, Stanford University Another extracted example is Scott Soames → AM MagazineInterview, Appreciating Analytic Philosophy, Consciousness Studies, Daily Princeton, Ideas Roadshow, Interview, Like, Logic, March, Philosopher, Scott Soames May, Soames, The Moscow Center, The Passions, USC, What Is. Use these groups to spot repeated connection types before inspecting the individual relationships.
Scott Soames
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related to Life and career· 23
Scott Soames → American Academy, Arts, Department, Fellow, Gilbert Harman, He, He's, His, Massachusetts Institute, MIT, Ph, Philosophy, Princeton, Princeton University, Sciences, Since, Soames, Soames's, Southern California, Stanford University
related to External links· 16
Scott Soames → AM MagazineInterview, Appreciating Analytic Philosophy, Consciousness Studies, Daily Princeton, Ideas Roadshow, Interview, Like, Logic, March, Philosopher, Scott Soames May, Soames, The Moscow Center, The Passions, USC, What Is
Born· 1
Scott Soames → 1945 (age 80–81)
Doctoral advisor· 1
Scott Soames → Sylvain Bromberger
Doctoral students· 1
Scott Soames → Richard Holton
Education· 1
Scott Soames → Stanford University (BA) Massachusetts Institute of Technology (PhD, 1976)
Era· 1
Scott Soames → Contemporary philosophy
Institutions· 1
Scott Soames → University of Southern California
Main interests· 1
Scott Soames → Philosophy of language
Notable ideas· 1
Scott Soames → Having a belief (the basic representational phenomenon) as explicit predication (explicitly accepting a certain predication) Criticism of semantic two-dimensionalism
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Scott Soames relationships Subject–Predicate–Object triples
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TTTA extracted 51 structured relationships around Scott Soames. Examples in this analysis include Scott Soames → Born → 1945 (age 80–81) and Scott Soames → Doctoral advisor → Sylvain Bromberger. The table shows each extracted connection, where it came from and its confidence.
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Scott Soames
Born
1945 (age 80–81)
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Scott Soames
Doctoral advisor
Sylvain Bromberger
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Doctoral students
Richard Holton
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Education
Stanford University (BA) Massachusetts Institute of Technology (PhD, 1976)
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Era
Contemporary philosophy
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Institutions
University of Southern California
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Scott Soames
Main interests
Philosophy of language
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Notable ideas
Having a belief (the basic representational phenomenon) as explicit predication (explicitly accepting a certain predication) Criticism of semantic two-dimensionalism
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Scott Soames
Region
Western philosophy
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School
Analytic
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Thesis
A Critical Examination of Frege's Theory of Presupposition and Contemporary Alternatives (1976)
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USC
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Related concept clusters Concept neighborhoods
Concept neighborhoods group terms that sit near one another in the extracted graph. They are useful for discovering adjacent language and context, but proximity does not by itself imply a factual relationship.
The concept neighborhoods around Scott Soames bring nearby vocabulary together. In this analysis, examples include Soames, Born and Philosopher. Use the clusters to find adjacent concepts and terminology that may deserve separate research.
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Philosopher
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American
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Princeton
University
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the world philosophy made: from plato to the digital age
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Connections between topic areas Semantic bridges
Semantic bridges connect parts of the graph that would otherwise be more separate. A bridge is a structural signal in this analysis, not a claim that the two topic areas are equivalent.
For Scott Soames, one of the stronger structural bridges in this analysis connects Scott Soames with Overview. Bridges highlight paths between different parts of the map and can reveal research angles that are easy to miss in a flat list.
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Scott Soames
Nodes28
Edges27
Triples51
Avg. degree1.93
Density0.071429
Components1
Source & methodology
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