Scott Soames’ Two-Dimensionalism

Reply to Critics of Reference and Description: The Case Against Two-Dimensionalism

2 Ambitious Two - Dimensionalism

Two-dimensional semantics and the nesting problem∗

Graeme Forbes (2011) raises some problems for two-dimensional semantic theories. The problems concern nested environments: linguistic environments where sentences are nested under both modal and epistemic operators. Closely related problems involving nested environments have been raised by Scott Soames (2005) and Josh Dever (2007). Soames (forthcoming) goes so far as to say that nested environm...

Low-Grade Two-Dimensionalism

1. Two-dimensionalists often rely on the assumption that “a posteriori information only tells us about our world” (Chalmers (1996), 137). This assumption backs their rejection of what Chalmers calls “strong metaphysical necessities”, since such necessities would be forever beyond our epistemic reach. But I see no reason to accept this epistemological constraint, and much reason to reject it. No...

Actually by Scott Soames School of Philosophy University of Southern California