Scott Soames is Distinguished Professor of Philosophy at the University of Southern California. He is the author of Philosophy of Language , What Is Meaning? , Reference and Description , the two-volume Philosophical Essays , and the two-volume Philosophical Analysis in the Twentieth Century (all Princeton).
The first in a projected five-volume set, this is a brilliant, challenging, and stimulating philosophical exegesis of seminal texts... In this monumental work, Soames explicates in detail and insightfully critiques virtually every aspect of their philosophical contributions. --Choice