Philosopher and logician at the University of St Andrews in Scotland, originally from Australia.
I like thinking about—and helping other people think about—logic and philosophy and the many different ways they can inform and enhance each other.
I suppose I’m known for work on substructural logics, logical pluralism, and (more recently) what philosophers should know about proof theory, and proof theorists should know about philosophy.
| Website | https://consequently.org |
| Manifesto | https://consequently.org/writing/pmpl-elements/ |
| Place | Scotland, mostly |
| Pronouns | he/him |
Since logic requirements in philosophy graduate programs is trending, here's a throwback to 2005, when Brian Weatherson @bweatherson , Ted Sider, Michael Glanzberg, Andy Arana and I discussed this in a special session at an ASL/APA meeting https://richardzach.org/2005/04/logic-instruction-and-philosophy-graduate-training/
The discussion about whether to have #logic requirements in #philosophy PhD programs and if so what to cover has been going on for a while
We've just published a new issue, with papers by Alessandro Rossi, Nathaniel Gan, Fabio De Martin Polo, and Alasdair Urquhart
If you’re into speech acts, discourse and the cultural norms around our communicative practices, this recent paper by Mitchell Green should be right up your alley.
He develops the provocative view that our practice of assertion has grown out of simpler practices, governed by fewer norms (call them “indicating” [transmit information] and “opining” […that you believe]), and that some kinds of discourse failure result from treating opining (or indicating) as assertion.
Here is the announcement for my Lakatos Award public lecture on 'The Dialogical Roots of Deduction' at the LSE on May 2nd 6pm. If you happen to be in London, do come 😊
In the afternoon, there will also be a workshop on the book; speakers are @wtgowers, Matthew Inglis, Mary Leng & Wes Wrigley.
Richard Zach
Australasian Journal of Logic
Frédéric Jaëck
Shady Characters
Prof. Catarina Dutilh Novaes