# Greg Restall

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{{Short description|Australian philosopher}}
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|era    = [21st-century philosophy](/source/Contemporary_philosophy)
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|name  = '''Greg Restall''' 
|birth_date = {{b-da|11 January 1969}}
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|school_tradition = [Analytic](/source/Analytic_philosophy)
| institutions      = [University of Melbourne](/source/University_of_Melbourne), [University of St Andrews](/source/University_of_St_Andrews)
|main_interests   = [philosophy of language](/source/philosophy_of_language), [logic](/source/logic)
| thesis_title      = On Logics Without Contraction
| thesis_url        = https://consequently.org/papers/onlogics.pdf
| thesis_year       = 1994
| doctoral_advisor  = [Graham Priest](/source/Graham_Priest)
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| education         = [University of Queensland](/source/University_of_Queensland)
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|awards           = [Australian Academy of the Humanities](/source/Australian_Academy_of_the_Humanities) fellowship
|website = https://consequently.org/
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'''Greg Restall''' (born 11 January 1969) is an Australian philosopher and Professor of [Philosophy](/source/Philosophy) at the [University of St Andrews](/source/University_of_St_Andrews).
He is a fellow of the [Australian Academy of the Humanities](/source/Australian_Academy_of_the_Humanities).<ref>{{cite web |title=Prof. Greg Restall, Instructor |url=https://www.coursera.org/instructor/gregrestall |website=[Coursera](/source/Coursera) |accessdate=27 October 2018}}</ref> 
Restall is known for his research on [logic](/source/logic) and [theories of meaning](/source/Meaning_(philosophy_of_language)).<ref>{{cite journal |last1=Došen |first1=Kosta |title=Review: Greg Restall, An Introduction to Substructural Logics |journal=[Bulletin of Symbolic Logic](/source/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}}</ref>
After working at the [University of Melbourne](/source/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](/source/Jc_Beall), Oxford University Press, 2006
* ''Logical Methods'', with Shawn Standefer, MIT Press, 2023 

==See also==
*[Substructural logic](/source/Substructural_logic)
*[Validity (logic)](/source/Validity_(logic))
*[Logical harmony](/source/Logical_harmony)
*[Relevance logic](/source/Relevance_logic)

==References==
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==External links==
*[https://consequently.org/ Personal Website]
* [https://www.findanexpert.unimelb.edu.au/display/person8019 Greg Restall at the University of Melbourne]
https://www.st-andrews.ac.uk/philosophy/news/title-114634-en.php

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