Greg Restall

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Greg Restall
Born11 January 1969 (1969-01-11) (age 54)
Education University of Queensland
Awards Australian Academy of the Humanities fellowship
Era 21st-century philosophy
Region Western philosophy
School Analytic
Institutions University of Melbourne, University of St Andrews
Thesis On Logics Without Contraction  (1994)
Doctoral advisor Graham Priest
Main interests
philosophy of language, logic
Website https://consequently.org/

Greg Restall (born 11 January 1969) is an Australian philosopher and Professor of Philosophy at the University of St Andrews. He is a fellow of the Australian Academy of the Humanities. [1] Restall is known for his research on logic and theories of meaning. [2] After working at the University of Melbourne for years he was appointed the Shelby Cullom David Professor of Philosophy at the University of St Andrews.

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References

  1. "Prof. Greg Restall, Instructor". Coursera . Retrieved 27 October 2018.
  2. Dosen, Kosta (December 2001). "Review: Greg Restall, An Introduction to Substructural Logics". Bulletin of Symbolic Logic . 7 (4): 527–530. ISSN   1079-8986 . Retrieved 27 October 2018.

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