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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.

Assorted crosscultural observations, upon visiting the supermarket

This morning found Z and me in the grocery store, doing yet more re-stocking of the pantry. Here are some hastily selected observations.

Organic and fairtrade food has significantly higher market presence in the UK than in Australia. Our nearest Sainsbury’s had many more organic products than can be found in either of the two major chains here in Australia. In our local supermarket, the paltry selection of organic products is filed away in the small “health food” section, than distributed through the relevant parts of the shop. This makes comparison with other products difficult.
There’s much more fresh food available in Australia, and correspondingly fewer pre-prepared meals. Don’t even get me started talking about that UK phenomenon Iceland. No, it does not feature Icelandic cuisine…
A 2 Litre plastic milk bottle looks very odd once you’ve been buying milk in the UK for a few months.

Posted 01:10 PM on January 4, 2006

Comments

We had very similar reactions on returning to Australia from the UK. The amount of fairtrade produce available in English supermarkets - several different options in coffee, chocolate, fruit - was terrific. Here you have to make a trip to specialty stores for any fairtrade food! But, as you say, it’s excellent to leave the endless plastic packaging behind!

joanna , January 5, 2006 09:14 AM

Welcome back to Oz Greg! I was surprised by the paucity and expense of fresh food available in the UK - at least in St Andrews. I was on a limited budget and planned to eat cheaply by cooking a lot - as I was sharing a house with a vegetarian I expected this to be fairly inexpensive.

Turned out we just couldn’t afford to buy fresh ingredients all the time (at least not if we wanted the odd pint as well) and it was notably less expensive to buy pre-prepared meals at Tesco (which, incidentally, I discovered is an acronym for Taking Every Single Commercial Opportunity).

I guess there’s a reason that Scotland has statistically the most unhealthy population in Western Europe.

M@ , January 5, 2006 12:10 PM

What I find most interesting/telling about the UK is that fresh produce is still such a class/wealth thing. We have just come back from 3.5 weeks in London and West Yorkshire and we ate almost totally organic, free range and fresh. However, we also made almost no supermarket purchases during that time. A good address and some cash and you can really opt out of the supermarket distribution chain. Then you are in local farmer’s markets, real butchers and green grocers and so on.

Fernando Gros , January 9, 2006 06:23 AM

Welcome home! Just visited the Queen Vic market this morning was thankful that God really is a Melburnian.

Simon Carey Holt , January 17, 2006 10:37 AM

Ah, the QVM —- it’s so nice to be a short tram ride away. I’ve only made the trip twice since getting home, but once I am armed with a little shopping trolley, I’ll be there with Z every Saturday morning.

Greg Restall , January 17, 2006 10:51 AM