Rate My Professor Greg Restall

Restall's academic interests center on formal logic, philosophy of logic, metaphysics, philosophy of language, and philosophy of religion. He has authored over 100 papers and five books: An Introduction to Substructural Logics (Routledge, 2000), Logic (Routledge, 2006), Logical Pluralism (Oxford University Press, 2006, with Jc Beall), Proofs and Models in Philosophical Logic (Cambridge University Press, 2022), and Logical Methods (MIT Press, 2023, with Shawn Standefer). Among his most cited works are 'An introduction to substructural logics' (2002, 947 citations), 'Relevance logic' (2002, 388 citations), 'Multiple conclusions' (2005, 325 citations), 'Truthmakers, entailment and necessity' (1996, 265 citations), and 'Negation in relevant logics (how I stopped worrying and learned to love the Routley star)' (1999, 166 citations). These contributions have significantly influenced philosophical logic, particularly in areas like substructural logics, proof theory, and logical pluralism. Restall is a Fellow of the Australian Academy of the Humanities. At Melbourne, he coordinated programs such as the Master of Arts in Philosophy (Advanced Seminars and Shorter Thesis), taught subjects including Logic: Language and Information and Applied Philosophy, and organized events like the Applied Proof Theory workshop.