Greg Restall

{{Short description|Australian philosopher}}

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| thesis_year = 1994

| doctoral_advisor = Graham Priest

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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.{{cite web |title=Prof. Greg Restall, Instructor |url=https://www.coursera.org/instructor/gregrestall |website=Coursera |accessdate=27 October 2018}}

Restall is known for his research on logic and theories of meaning.{{cite journal |last1=Dosen |first1=Kosta |title=Review: Greg Restall, An Introduction to Substructural Logics |journal=Bulletin of Symbolic Logic |date=December 2001 |volume=7 |issue=4 |pages=527–530 |url=https://projecteuclid.org/euclid.bsl/1182353829 |accessdate=27 October 2018 |language=EN |issn=1079-8986}}

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.

Books

  • An Introduction to Substructural Logics, Routledge, 2000
  • Logic, Routledge, 2006
  • Logical Pluralism, with Jc Beall, Oxford University Press, 2006
  • Logical Methods, with Shawn Standefer, MIT Press, 2023

See also

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