Greg Restall
Greg Restall studied mathematics at the University of Queensland, transferring to Philosophy to complete a PhD in philosophical logic with Graham Priest in the early 1990s. Since then, he has been a postdoctoral research fellow at the Australian National University, and a lecturer in Philosophy at Macquarie University, before moving to Melbourne in 2002. He was elected a fellow of the Australian Academy of the Humanities in 2004.
His interests centre on the intersection of logic with philosophy, so he teaches courses in logic, epistemology, decision theory, philosophy of language and things like that, and he supervises graduate students in the areas around logic, philosophy of language and the philosophy of mathematics.
He has written three books:
- a technical one (An Introduction to Substructural Logics) covering a range of formal logical systems and their applications in philosophy, linguistics and computer science),
- an introductory one (Logic), which we use as a textbook in first-year logic teaching, and
- a jointly-authored philosophical book (Logical Pluralism), jointly with JC Beall, arguing that you don't necessarily have to choose one true logic, but that many different accounts of logical consequence have their place.
Greg coordinates the weekly Friday Logic seminars (11am Fridays in the Old Quad Moot Court).
Greg's personal website is consequently.org, and a complete list of his publications is found there at consequently.org/writing.
To contact Greg, try Room 203 in the Old Quad; or email him at restall at unimelb.edu.au.