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About

I'm Greg Restall, and this is my website. I work in Philosophy at the University of Melbourne. [Email: greg at consequently.org; Skype: greg_restall; Post: Department of Philosophy, University of Melbourne, Parkville 3010, Australia.]

Writing

These are the three last modified entries on my writing page.

“Truthmakers, Entailment and Necessity 2008,” an addendum to “Truthmakers, Entailment and Necessity,” to appear in Truth and Truth-making, edited by E. J. Lowe and A. Rami, Acumen, 2008. →
[with Rebecca Kukla and Mark Lance] Appendix to Rebecca Kukla and Mark Lance ‘Yo!’ and ‘Lo!’: the pragmatic topography of the space of reasons, Harvard University Press, to appear. →
“Curry’s Revenge: the costs of non-classical solutions to the paradoxes of self-reference,” in The Revenge of the Liar, ed. JC Beall, Oxford University Press, pages 262–271, 2008. →
“Anti-Realist Classical Logic and Realist Mathematics,” under revision. →
“Proof Theory and Meaning: on second order logic,” to appear in the Logica 2007 Yearbook, Filosofia. →

Classes

In Semester 2, which starts on July 31, I’ll be teaching an honours seminar 161-438 Logic and Philosophy, in which we cover proof theory and its applications to semantics.

Events

AAL2007: the annual conference of the Australasian Association for Logic, University of Melbourne November 9 to 11, 2007.

Recent Past

University of Melbourne Philosophy Undergraduate Workshop, University of Melbourne September 21 to 23, 2007.

Logic Colloquium 2007, Wrocław, Poland, July 14-19, 2007.

1st GPMR Workshop on Logic & Semantics on Medieval Logic and Modern Applied Logic, Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität Bonn, Germany, on June 28-30, 2007.

Logica 2007, Hejnice Monastery, Czech Republic, 18-22 June 2007.

Heart of Philosophy Café talk and discussion on “What Marx, Freud and Nietzsche have taught me about belief in God”. Tuesday May 8, 7--9pm in the Merrick's General Store.

Seminars at Otago

Tomorrow I’m presenting a paper at the staff seminar in the Philosophy Department at the University of Otago. Given Charles Pigden’s delightful account of seminars at Otago, I’m not quite sure what to expect.

Wish me luck!

Posted 01:56 PM on April 5, 2005

Comments

Chuckle!

One thing for sure is that Musgrave will say “Well, you probably know more about this than me so my point may not be relevant…” at which point some people in the audience will start to smile or hang their heads having witnessed this before “… but …” and then he’ll come out with really difficult comment.

NotThisHandle , April 6, 2005 02:19 PM

It went fine. Alan M did ask a question, but it wasn’t a stumping-type question, but a clarification-type question. Got some other good comments from Charles P. and James M., and from some students too. A good time was had by all, I think.

Greg Restall , April 8, 2005 10:22 AM

Actually, I wonder whether there is a question that can possibly be difficult for Greg Restall. Perhaps, only questions like could propose a second and a third way to demonstrate Fermat’s theorem or explain in five seconds what is the role of human existence in the Universe would be really difficult for him. Any other kind of question is piece of cake for him.

Tony Marmo , April 14, 2005 12:33 AM

Hi Greg, did you get a chance to have a look at that paper on Arrow’s Theorem I gave you at the end of your seminar?

Paul Hansen , May 3, 2005 03:41 PM

Hi Paul,

I haven’t gone through all of the proof in detail, but I did skim through it. It looks great. Thanks!

Greg Restall , May 4, 2005 12:32 AM