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.
- “Molinism and the Thin Red Line,” paper in progress. Presented at the Molinism: The Contemporary Debate conference hosted by Ken Perszyk and Ed Mares at Victoria University of Wellington. →
- “Modal Models for Bradwardine’s Theory of Truth,” Review of Symbolic Logic 1 (2008), 225-240. Special issue on Mathematical Methods in Philosophy, edited by Richard Zach, Alasdair Urquhart and Aldo Antonelli →
- “Assertion and Denial, Commitment and Entitlement, and Incompatibility (and some consequence),” Studies in Logic 1 (2008), 26-36. →
- [with Tony Roy] “On Permutation in Simplified Semantics,” to appear in the Journal of Philosophical Logic. →
- “Proof Theory and Meaning: on second order logic,” pp 157-170 in Logica 2007 Yearbook, edited by Michal Pelis, Filosofia, 2008. →
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Links
- TR-2008012: Product-free Lambek Calculus is NP-complete: Yury Savateev shows that the derivability problems for product-free Lambek calculus and product-free Lambek calculus allowing empty premises are NP-complete. Looks neat.
- Melbourne Uni academics face axe | theage.com.au: This -- alas -- does seem to be a pretty straight account of the situation in the Arts Faculty here at Melbourne. There's a fair bit more pain to be endured before the budget is balanced.
- Dimensions movies for my iPod: Nicely done mathematical exposition of projections, geometry, and interesting things like that. Good fun to watch on the tram to work.
- Photos from the "Logical Pluralism" conference in Tartu: There I am, holding forth...
- Charles Taylor 's A Secular Age: Reviewed by Michael L. Morgan, in NDPR: Interesting review of a big book.
These and more links are available at del.icio.us/greg_restall.
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.
Interviewed
This afternoon I was interviewed by Lisa Mitchell from The Age about academic blogging. She’s writing an article for the education supplement (published on Mondays). It’s a piece with a long lead time.
I wonder if I’ll recognise anything I said in the article, and if she’ll quote me. (I blabbed on for 25 minutes. I hope there was some useful raw material there somewhere.)
Posted 05:05 PM on June 6, 2006
Comments
When rereading my post, I notice that the post might come across as a bit critical — I didn’t mean to be. It was fun doing the interview on the phone. I enjoyed it heaps.
In writing what I did, I was more expressing curiousity about who else you (Lisa) would talk to and how you’d develop the ideas. I don’t mind how much I get quoted or not. (After all, I have this site as my soapbox…)
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, June 7, 2006 10:35 PM
Yep no worries Greg. Your passion for the blogosphere is contagious! I realised you weren’t meaning to be critical but thought I’d clarify how the piece would progress anyway. I’m enjoying my blog-tour very much indeedy.
lisa mitchell , June 8, 2006 09:40 AM
Hi Greg, I’ll keep an eye on the education supplement of your contributions in the Age on Monday. Looking forward to it!
Kitty , June 10, 2006 01:21 AM
Hi Kitty,
Lisa mentioned that the piece is not going to be published for a while. (I think she said after the school holidays.) So don’t expect it to be there this Monday.
Greg Restall , June 10, 2006 07:40 AM
Greg, could you please blog a link when the article comes out? It sounds like it will be a good read.
fernando , June 22, 2006 11:58 AM
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Yes there was loads of useful stuff and I’m very grateful for your time Greg. I do expect to quote you on several useful points; in particular how blogging has changed your working habits between now and eight years ago and how the speed of publishing and distribution on the internet is “changing the face of research”.
I hope you do recognise your contributions. It’s true there is a need to paraphrase some of the many terrific points academics have made in my travels for this piece. Unlike academic writing, journalists, as you know, do not source every fact or idea in an article - only because it is not journalistic style to do so. This doesn’t mean to say that a feature article is passed off as the journalist’s own ideas. As a feature writer, it’s my job to synthesise a body of work (I do typically 25,000 words research or more for a cover story) into an engaging and information 2000-word read (in a week), punctuated by quotation higlights.
I’ll certainly email you when it comes out with a link to the Age website.
Lisa Mitchell , June 7, 2006 04:32 PM