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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.

In Århus

We’re settled in Århus now, while Christine does work with a colleague on a research project. This gives Z and me lots of time for lots of fun. Yesterday’s fun was Legoland (Vibeke and Christine wanted to come too, so we all made a day of it). Z loved the rides, and the displays, and the Lego for sale. We bought a set for him to grow into. There’s lots of fiddly pieces, but we’ve already managed to make one of the models together. (He does the putting together and I help find the pieces for him.)

More later. I’m going to cook some dinner now.

Posted 03:18 AM on July 20, 2005

Comments

I understood that Lego had closed its doors for good. (Or was it playmobil?) Nice to know that it/either one of them has survived computer games and stuff. Hope Z enjoys these slightly old flavoured toys, like hobby horses, marbles and spinning tops.

Hope to hear more about your proof theory courses.

Tony Marmo , July 20, 2005 05:30 AM

He definitely likes all kinds of toys. Lego is a special favourite at the moment, because of the many different things you can create with it. He’s especially keen on cars, trucks, aeroplanes, boats, and anything that moves.

Lego is definitely alive and well. The crowds at Legoland on Monday were phenomenal.

Greg Restall , July 20, 2005 05:44 AM

I have two daughters, aged 12 and 2.5 and they both love Lego. I am deeply impressed by the durability and elegance of this toy. It is abstract quality speaking to you in concrete plastic (or whatever that material is called). So far we have only a single piece missing from our ever-growing set and it is a clown that my little one threw to the garbage can because (it turns out) she was afraid of it :-)

Great blog Greg! Give my best to little master Z.

Varol Akman , July 22, 2005 05:36 PM