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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.

About to leave Oxford

We’re in the middle of packing up our Oxford home, to start the short trip back. We land in Melbourne on New Year’s Eve, after some stops in Köln (for the Christmas Markets), Augsburg (for Christmas with friends), Frankfurt Airport (to get on the plane), Singapore (to break the journey, and give us some summer in close proximity to air conditioning before landing in the Melbourne summer heat).

There’s too much to say in the limited time I’ve got online here, but here’s just a taste of what’s been going on. Academic highlights in the last few weeks have involved:

Cambridge. I zipped over to Cambridge on the bus (though Milton Keynes, which is a very strange city, at least when viewed from the window of a bus) for a CAMELEON workshop organised by Tom Forster. It was great to meet Tom, and also Randall Holmes, Michael Rathjen, Allen Mann (who all presented papers), and Martin Hyland, who gave me useful feedback on the paper I presented.
Paris. My visit there was wonderful. The IHSPT is a wonderful place, with lots of nice people (a fantastic bunch of students who managed to make me eat my lunch or dinner very slowly by asking Interesting Questions and making me think Very Hard), together with a gorgeous city.
Utrecht. Where I enjoyed long conversations with Albert Visser, Michael Moortgat and some of their students.
Christine’s promotion (she’s now an Assoc. Prof. and Reader, woohoo!) and her research fellowship (she now has five years of only as much undergraduate teaching as she wants to do). Super!

And non-academically:

Maddy Prior & the Carnival Band: On Tuesday night, we managed to get some babysitting so Christine and I could hear Maddy Prior & the Carnival Band’s Oxford Christmas concert. (Have you ever heard shawms playing reggae? I hadn’t.)
Walking the streets of Paris, and spending an afternoon at the Museé D’Orsay. There’s something humbling about wandering through an art gallery and seeing a masterpiece at every second step.
Seeing Zachary thrive: He’s had a great time at the day nursery at Wolfson, and despite a recent bout of sickness (a cold when I was away in Utrecht last week), he’s been doing really well. Once he got used to the cold weather, he’s adapted nicely, though like us, he’s keen to get back to Melbourne.

There’s lots more to say, but I’m going to let it digest and post more comments on my thoughts when I’ve got more regular internet access (i.e., I’m at home) and I’ve given the thoughts time to settle.

Posted 12:22 AM on December 16, 2005

Comments

That all sounds like LOTS of fun! .Maddy Prior - what a treat, we have her Christmas carols on repeat at the moment! Glad it’s gone so well. And congratulations in order for Christine?

Joanna , December 16, 2005 10:03 AM

I forgot to mention Christine’s good double pieces of news (and I had no time to correct the typos), so I’ve now updated the entry with the news and hopefully fewer errors.

See you in a few weeks! (Are you in Melbourne for Christmas/New Year?)

Greg Restall , December 16, 2005 09:55 PM

Sounds like you all had a fantastic time! Hope you had a good Christmas and all the best for the New Year.

And please pass on our congrats to Christine.

fernando , December 26, 2005 07:37 AM