What's going on around here
Tuesday, December 14, 2004 at 08:52PM
I’ve been rather busy for the last little while, as the absence from the website might indicate. Here is a list of what’s been happening, which involves not a little bit of trumpet-blowing, because a lot of the news has been good and it’s time for me to share.
Last week I spent an enjoyable (if rather wet) week in Canberra, touring the sights with Zachary in the mornings, and teaching at Logic Summer School in the afternoons. Going through a rapid-fire course covering Turing machines, register machines, recursive functions, the halting problem, diagonalisation, formal arithmetic, representability, and Gödel’s incompleteness results in 5 hours flat was a challenge. I learned something setting it up and I hope the students learned something in the listening. (They laughed at my jokes, which was very polite.)
While I was looking after Z, C was at a conference, at which her most recent book had its Australian launch. Z and I crashed the launch party at University House, which was great fun.
Immediately upon our return to Melbourne, we went to some friends’ wedding up near Marysville. The drive through Black Spur would have been nice in and of itself. The touching wedding ceremony and socialising with friends out in attractive country was almost an excellent bonus.
Before going away I heard three bits of good news. First, I’m now on the editorial board of the Notre Dame Journal of Formal Logic. (My membership doesn’t seem to be on their website as yet, but it should be sometime soon.) This was the site of my first academic publication, so I’m chuffed to be on the editorial board now. Send good papers to the journal. It’s a great print journal with an enlightened open access policy for its archive (you get free access to papers older than five years). The online archive goes back to 1960, which is seriously impressive.
The last round of ARC research grants was announced a little while ago and my last application with Graham Priest and Allen Hazen received funding in the current round. So, we’re receiving support for our projects, which is nice.
Lastly, I have been elected as a Fellow of the Australian Academy of the Humanities. The citation says exaggeratedly flattering things about me. Thanks to everyone who put my name forward. I’m chuffed.
News Archive
2002 | 2003 | 2004 | Reboot – Zachary at Hanging Rock – Teaching, teaching, teaching – Black Mountain Tower – AJL Volume 2 – Are God's Hands Tied By Logic? – Study Window – Revisiting the past – The Wind is Blowing – Publishing a Book – Zachary Scribbling – Kai on Book Publishing – Monday comments – Zachary with a chocolate moustache – Research Quantification – Brandom on Philosophy and the University – Busy/Quiet Period – What the universe looks like from the inside – Research Project – Shootings – Hedge – Technical 'Support' – Funding Changes at the University of Melbourne – Knowability – Busy/Quiet Period 2, and email – Help Wanted – The AJL is on the Register – Knowability 2 – Max Cresswell at the AJL – Winter Stylesheet – Great Moments in Logic – Knowability 3 – NAD C521BEE – Haskell and Logic – Knowability 4 – What He Said – Inference & Meaning – Who are Boole, Fitch and Tarski? – Grading – Tree Totaller – Ancestors – The Geometry of Non-Distributive Logics – Assertion, Denial, Paradox... – The Twelve Apostles – No writing implements? – Musical Taste – Slow Period – Organising Academic Papers – GMail – Off North – I'm so not here – Parent/Teacher Interview – What's been happening around here – Itchy to redesign (a bit) – October 9 Election – In case you were wondering – Well, that didn't go as I'd hoped – Headphones – Travel Plans 2005 – Sheet Music – Take these shoes... – What's going on around here – 2005 | 2006 | 2007 | 2008 | 2009 | 2010 |
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I’m Greg Restall, and this is my website. I work in Philosophy at the University of Melbourne. Email: greg at consequently.org; Post: School of of Philosophy, Anthropology and Social Inquiry, University of Melbourne, Parkville 3010, Australia.
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Thought
There are two kinds of truths: those of reasoning and those of fact. The truths of reasoning are necessary and their opposite is impossible; the truths of fact are contigent and their opposites are possible.
— Gottfried Leibniz Monadology.