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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.

On the Interview

I’ve listened to the interview, and I’m pretty happy with how it went. The ABC team did a good job with the editing (I think the interview I recorded was a bit over 30 minutes). I never thought that I’d live to hear the day that someone explained the semantics of first degree entailment on national radio, and I was especially grateful that my little plug for Richard Sylvan and Bob Meyer didn’t end up on the cutting-room floor.

For your edification, the transcript is of the interview here and the audio is an MP3 file available for the next four weeks. You can subscribe to a podcast of the program if you like to hear this kind of thing more regularly.

If you’re visiting my website on following the link from the Philosopher’s Zone page and you want to know more about logic, there are a few things you could do.

Download my little introductory article “Logic” in a nice volume called the Fundamentals of Philosophy edited by John Shand.
My textbook, also imaginatively entitled Logic is an introduction to the subject, geared to philosophy students. You can order it from Amazon US or Amazon UK.
If you’re interested in pluralism about logic, the topic I ended my discussion with Alan on, then you’ll want to have a look at my book Logical Pluralism co-authored with my friend JC Beall from the University of Connecticut. You can get this book from Amazon US or Amazon UK.

Posted 07:24 PM on July 22, 2006

Comments

Hi Greg Great interview, it was good to hear your warm-thoughtful voice again. All the best with All the Consequences. Robert Anderson

Robert Anderson , July 23, 2006 03:06 PM

Thanks, Robert! Thankyou especially for recommending me to Alan in the first place.

Greg Restall , July 23, 2006 03:56 PM

A great interview; i list your podcast on our Carnival of Podcasts. Would love to see a couple of posts linking logic,philosophy and economics. http://truckandbarter.com/mt/archives/2006/07/carnivalofpod_3.html

paul , July 24, 2006 11:53 AM

Hey Greg, just read through the transcript of your interview. It’s sooooo interesting!

Kitty , July 27, 2006 03:55 AM