Robert C. May, PhD
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Robert C. May is past Academic Senate Chair for the University of California System, and is Distinguished Professor of Philosophy and Linguistics at UC Davis. He received his Ph.D. in Linguistics and Philosophy from MIT in 1977 and his Bachelor’s degree from Swarthmore College.
He joined the Davis faculty in 2006 after a twenty-year career at UC Irvine, where he began in 1986 as Associate Professor of Linguistics and Cognitive Sciences and advanced to full Professor in 1989. His research interests span areas in philosophy and linguistics, and in the intersection of these two disciplines.
In linguistics, his research has been in theoretical linguistics, with focus on the relations between syntax and semantics. His research in philosophy has been in philosophy of language, philosophy of logic and the history of early analytic philosophy.
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