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Life and career

Stanford University Massachusetts Institute of Technology Linguistics Yale University Gilbert Harman

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Philosophical work

Truth Reference Nathan Salmon Semantics Brian Weatherson

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Princeton University Press The World Philosophy Made: From Plato to the Digital Age

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Distinguished professor Philosophy University of Southern California Princeton University Philosophy of language

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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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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	Born	1945 (age 80–81)	1.00	infobox
Scott Soames	Doctoral advisor	Sylvain Bromberger	1.00	infobox
Scott Soames	Doctoral students	Richard Holton	1.00	infobox
Scott Soames	Education	Stanford University (BA) Massachusetts Institute of Technology (PhD, 1976)	1.00	infobox
Scott Soames	Era	Contemporary philosophy	1.00	infobox
Scott Soames	Institutions	University of Southern California	1.00	infobox
Scott Soames	Main interests	Philosophy of language	1.00	infobox
Scott Soames	Notable ideas	Having a belief (the basic representational phenomenon) as explicit predication (explicitly accepting a certain predication) Criticism of semantic two-dimensionalism	1.00	infobox
Scott Soames	Region	Western philosophy	1.00	infobox
Scott Soames	School	Analytic	1.00	infobox
Scott Soames	Thesis	A Critical Examination of Frege's Theory of Presupposition and Contemporary Alternatives (1976)	1.00	infobox
Scott Soames	related to External links	USC	0.60	section

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