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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.

2006 redesign in progress

I’m trying to neaten up this place a bit, and I need your help and advice. Have a look here and let me know what you think of it. I’m trying to make it easier to see what’s new, what’s changed, etc. In particular, you look down to find links to other new stuff on the site. This opens up the sidebars for four things. The most recent picture, my “recently browsed” linklist, my list of events (which I need to update) and finally, a very modest list of links to friends and colleagues.

So, what do you think? Clearer? Simpler? Easier to understand? Or not? Does it break in your browser? Leave a comment and let me know.

Posted 10:29 PM on April 1, 2006

Comments

Clearer, simpler, just as easy to understand, don’t know what breaking in a browser is.

But, in the old version, if you go to your site and you haven’t posted then you can immediately scan the sidebars for new stuff. In the new version you would have to take the time to scroll down to check if you have wasted your time!

Paul , April 1, 2006 10:56 PM

By “break in your browser”, I meant, does some aspect of the design just seem to fail. Is the formatting horribly wrong or something? The point is that different browsers interpret the HTML+CSS differently, and some might make the design completely “break.”

It’s true that for some new stuff you need to scroll to the bottom. (But the bottom is much closer to the top in the new design — only 3 news entries are on the front page). However, in the old design, on my screen at least, you only get the new links, the photo and events on the visible part of the page. For the rest you need to scroll down anyway. In the new design, you get all of that, except for the events, which don’t change frequently anyway. And you get a consistent scrolling target to see all of the rest of the new stuff. (Go down, or even better, hit ‘end’ — on a Macintosh keyboard it’s “fn →”, no idea what it is on a PC keyboard — to go to the end of the page.)

Greg Restall , April 1, 2006 11:30 PM

I’m not really convinced by your choice of fonts. The serif kind of font used for headings is a bit strange, but it seems to work. On the other hand, I find the font used for the entries and for the tagline under Consequently not really easy to read. I still prefer the bolder font in the old design.

Additional info: I use Safari 1.3.2 on a 12” PBook

p-trick , April 1, 2006 11:55 PM

Doesn’t seem to break in my browser (Firefox).

Fair points. But how will newcomers know about the stuff at the very bottom? Could you shoot us down to them with links at the top of the page? Just a thought.

Looks good.

Thanks for the latest AJL, by the way.

Paul (Robinson) , April 1, 2006 11:57 PM

p-trick: I agree. I was trying to get this all-round Zapf thing going with Optima as the body font and Palatino as the header font. I agree that Optima isn’t suitable as a body font for onscreen reading, so I’ve swapped them.

Paul: on newcomers looking to the bottom. I’m not sure what to do here. I could try adding a link to the menubar at the top. Or I could wait for them to read all the way to the bottom, through my completely compelling text. Or not… Hmmm… I’ll sleep on this one, I think.

Greg Restall , April 2, 2006 12:22 AM

I’ve redesigned the writing page (at last) in the new design. I much prefer this one to the previous mess. Now maybe more people will read my papers!

Greg Restall , April 2, 2006 12:23 AM

I like the new look. I would just put an about link on the top that pops folks to the bottom. Whenever I wander to a new persons site my inherent curiousity draws me to any about link.

(I wanted to put a struck out nosiness before the curiousity, but apparently you don’t allow html in comments. Probably wise.)

Nicole Wyatt , April 2, 2006 10:56 AM

Thanks for the papers!

Paul (Robinson) , April 4, 2006 06:52 AM