Scott Soames

Professor of Philosophy, Director, School of Philosophy. Scholar of linguistic and philosophical semantics and historian of analytic philosophy. Contributions to semantics: structure and foundations of semantic theories; nature of truth, reference and meaning; analysis of propositional attitudes including sentences attributing belief and other psychological attitudes to agents; role of modal and two-dimensional logics in understanding natural language, and the fusion of semantic and non-semantic information in the interpretation of legal texts as well as in ordinary communication.