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Philosophy Program

Staff Profiles

Dr Ross Brady

 

Position:
Reader & Associate Professor,
Head of Logic
Room: Hu2, 309
Tel: +61 3 9479 2487
Fax: +61 3 9479 3639
Email: Ross.Brady@latrobe.edu.au

Qualifications: BSC(Syd.), MA(U.N.E.), PhD(St And.), F.A.H.A.

Background

After completing a B.Sc., majoring with honours in Pure Mathematics, I decided to cross over into philosophy and do a coursework Master of Arts in Formal Logic. Subsequently, I completed a Ph.D. entitled "A 4-Valued Theory of Classes and Individuals" at the University of St. Andrews in Scotland . My first job was in Mathematics at the University of Western Australia , but I again crossed over into philosophy by joining the Philosophy Department at La Trobe University, which is where I am currently. Over the years, I have taught Philosophy of Mathematics and Formal Logic. I am Co-ordinator of the Logic Program and the double degree, B.Inf.Sys/B.Inf.Sc. On a broader scale, I am Secretary-Treasurer of the Australasian Association for Logic, Chair of the Australasian Committee of the Association of Symbolic Logic, and a Fellow of the Academy of Humanities.

Research Interests

  • Lifetime interest in formal logic and its paradoxes, but my research has led me towards a specific goal
  • started (Ph.D thesis) with significance logic and the solution of the set-theoretic paradoxes by using a many-valued logic
  • continued on from there, replacing the many-valued logic by an intensional logic
  • proved the simple consistency of the naïve set-theoretic axioms of comprehension and extensionality, using any of a range of weaker relevant logics
  • then pinned down a particular one of these logics as the logic of meaning containment
  • currently proceeding to show that this logic can be used in areas where formal logic has traditionally been applied

List of Publications

 

 

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Last Updated: 9 January, 2007