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Robert May

Robert May

Distinguished Professor

2296 Social Science and Humanities Building
Davis , Ca 95616
Office Phone: (530) 554-9554

Education:

  1. Ph.D.: Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1977

Biography:

Dissertation: "The Grammar of Quantification"

Areas of Specialization: Philosophy of language, philosophy of logic, history of early analytic philosophy, Frege, theoretical linguistics: syntax and semantics.

Joined the UC Davis Philosophy Faculty: 2006


2011-2012 Course Schedule

Fall
Not Teaching

Winter
178 – Frege
238 – Philosophy of Language Workshop

Spring
12 – Introduction to Symbolic Logic
137A – Philosophy of Language: Theory of Reference

Other Courses

178 Frege
189J Topics in Philosophy of Language (Chomsky)
237 Philosophy of Language Seminar
290 History of Philosophy Seminar (Frege)

Recent Publications

"The Invariance of Sense," Journal of Philosophy, Vol. 103, 111-144, 2006

"Frege on Indexicals," The Philosophical Review, Vol. 115, 487 - 516, 2006

Currently Supervising Dissertations

None

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