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Frege’s logic and semantics: a Master Class with Robert May

June 6, 2026

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Registration is requested to Richard Lawrence (richard.lawrence@univie.ac.at) by May 24, 2026 midnight CEST.

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Room 3D, Neues Institutsgebäude, Universitätsstraße 7, Vienna, Austria

Description

Prof. Robert May (University of California, Davis) will offer a Master Class seminar on some of his work on Frege. This is a pre-read seminar; interested participants should register in advance and commit to reading the following four pieces by Prof. May in preparation:

Heck, R., and May, R. (2013). The Function is Unsaturated. In M. Beaney (Ed.), The Oxford Handbook of Analytical Philosophy (pp. 825–850).

May, R. (2018). Logic as Science. In A. Coliva, P. Leonardi, and S. Moruzzi (Eds.), Eva Picardi on Language, Analysis and History (pp. 113–160). Springer International Publishing.

May, R. (2021). The Role of Truth. In Origins and Varieties of Logicism. Routledge.

Boddy, R., and May, R. (2020). Frege On Reference. In The Routledge Handbook of Linguistic Reference. Routledge.

Copies of these articles will be distributed to registered participants.

Co-organized by the IFS and the ERC Project “The Formal Turn”.

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