Graham Priest : Philosophy Department - Melbourne
Boyce Gibson Professor
MA (Camb), MSc, PhD (London)
Since his arrival in the department in January 1, 2001, Graham Priest has been the Boyce Gibson Professor of Philosophy. He is also a Professorial Fellow at the University of St Andrews in Scotland. Graham studied mathematics and philosophy at the University of Cambridge, and received his doctorate from the London School of Economics. He has held full time positions at the Universities of St Andrews and Western Australia, and was the Professor of Philosophy at the University of Queensland before coming to Melbourne. He has held visiting research positions at many universities, including the Australian National University, the Universities of Cambridge, New York, Pittsburgh, Sao Paulo, Kyoto, and the Soviet Academy of Sciences. Graham's research interests are in logic and related areas, such as metaphysics and the history of philosohy (East and West). He is the author of a number of books including: In Contradiction, Beyond the Limits of Thought, Towards Non-Being, Doubt Truth to be a Liar, and An Introduction to Non-Classical Logic.
Greg Restall : Philosophy Department - Melbourne
Associate Professor
BSc, PhD (Queensland)Greg's research interests are in philosophical and formal logic, meaning theory, philosophy of religion, and the history of 20th Century philosophy. He is the author of An Introduction to Substructural Logics, Logic, in the series (Fundamentals of Philosophy, Routledge, 2006) and, with JC Beall, Logical Pluralism (Oxford University Press, 2006). He is the managing editor of the Australasian Journal of Logic. His current research can be found at his personal website.
Greg is currently the coordinator of the logic group and logic seminars,
Allen Hazen : Philosophy Department - Melbourne
Lecturer
BA (Yale), MA, PhD (Pitts)Allen arrived in Melbourne in 1983, after teaching in Ireland, Canada, and the U.S. He likes the half of philosophy closer to the logic end, and is happier with metaphysical issues when they admit of precise formulation. He has published on Paradoxes, Space, Modal Logic, Color, and Bertrand Russell.
Barry Taylor : Philosophy Department - Melbourne
Associate Professor and Reader
MA (Melb), DPhil (Oxford)Barry has been with the Philosophy Department since 1973. His main research interests are in Metaphysics and the Philosophy of Language. His publications in those areas include his book, Modes of Occurrence.
Jen Davoren : Electronic Engineering - Melbourne
Senior Lecturer - Electrical and Electronic Engineering
BA Hons (Melbourne), Msc, PhD (Cornell)Full details of Jen's research interests and publications are available at her webpage.
Ross Brady : Philosophy Program - La Trobe
Reader and Associate Professor
B.Sc. (Syd.), M.A. (U.N.E.), Ph.D. (St And.), F. A. H. A.After completing a B.Sc., majoring with honours in Pure Mathematics, I decided to cross over into philosophy and do a coursework Master of Arts in Formal Logic. Subsequently, I completed a Ph.D. entitled "A 4-Valued Theory of Classes and Individuals" at the University of St. Andrews in Scotland. My first job was in Mathematics at the University of Western Australia, but I again crossed over into philosophy by joining the Philosophy Department at La Trobe University, which is where I am currently. Over the years, I have taught Philosophy of Mathematics and Formal Logic. I am Co-ordinator of the Logic Program and the double degree, B.Inf.Sys/B.Inf.Sc. On a broader scale, I am Secretary-Treasurer of the Australasian Association for Logic, Chair of the Australasian Committee of the Association of Symbolic Logic, and a Fellow of the Academy of Humanities
Lloyd Humberstone : Philosophy and Bioethics Department - Monash
Associate Professor
Full details of Lloyd's research interests and publications are available at his webpage.
Matt Carter : Philosophy Department - Melbourne
PhD Candidate
BA Hons (UQ)Matt studied Philosophy and Cognitive Science at UQ before moving to Melbourne in 2002. He is currently completing his dissertation - Reasoning with Inconsistency. His research interests are in the philosophy of logic and the philosophy of mind and he has a forthcoming textbook: Minds and Computers: An Introduction to the Philosophy of Artificial Intelligence.
Zach Weber : Philosophy Department - Melbourne
PhD Candidate
BA (SUNY)Zach Weber recieved his BA in Philosophy from the SUNY Binghamton in 2003 with Highest Honors for a thesis on Gödel's Theorem. He studies paraconsistent set theory and logic, expecting to complete his dissertation by 2008.
Conrad Asmus : Philosophy Department - Melbourne
Tama Coutts : Philosophy Department - Melbourne
Su Rogerson : Philosophy Department - Melbourne
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