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Professor Gillian Russell

Professor

Areas of expertise: philosophy of logic and language; epistemology

HDR Supervisor accreditation status: Full

ORCID ID: 0000-0001-6423-0655

Email: Gillian.Russell@acu.edu.au

Location:  ACU Melbourne Campus

I’m a research professor in the Dianoia Institute of Philosophy at ACU, as well as a part-time Professorial Fellow at the Arché Research Centre at the University of St Andrews in Scotland. 

Before moving to Australia I was Alumni Distinguished Professor in Philosophy at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.  And from 2004-2015 I worked at Washington University in St Louis. 

I was an undergrad at the University of St Andrews and did my PhD in philosophy at Princeton University (2004).  In 2005 I was a Killam Postdoc at the University of Alberta in Edmonton. 

Curriculum vitae

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Philosophy of Logic

• “Logical Nihilism: could there be no logic?“ Philosophical Issues, volume 28, issue 1, pages 308–324, 2018. DOI: 10.1111/phis.12127
• “Deviance and Vice: strength as a theoretical virtue in the epistemology of logic“ Philosophy and Phenomenological Research 99, issue 3, 548–563, 2019. DOI: 10.1111/phpr.12498
• “Logic isn’t Normative“ Inquiry2017 DOI: 10.1080/0020174X.2017.1372305
• “Metaphysical Analyticity and the Epistemology of Logic“ Philosophical Studies, Volume 171, Issue 1, pages 161-175, 2014. DOI: 10.1007/s11098-013-0255-y
• “One True Logic?“ Journal of Philosophical Logic, v 37, no. 6, pages 593-611, April 2008. DOI: 10.1007/s10992-008-9082-6

The Analytic/Synthetic Distinction

• Truth in Virtue of Meaning: a defence of the analytic/synthetic distinction (OUP, 2008)
• “Quine on the Analytic/Synthetic Distinction“ in A Companion to W. V. O. Quine (Blackwell Companions to Philosophy) edited by Gilbert Harman and Ernie Lepore (Blackwell, 2014.)
• “Analyticity in Externalist Languages“ in New Waves in Philosophy of Language, edited by Sarah Sawyer (Palgrave MacMillan, 2010).

Barriers to Entailment

• “Indexicals, Context-Sensitivity and the Failure of Implication“ Synthese Volume 183, Issue 2, pages 143-160, 2011. DOI:10.1007/s11229-010-9756-9
• “In Defence of Hume’s Law“ in Hume, ‘Is’, and ‘Ought’: New Essays edited by Charles Pigden (Palgrave MacMillan, 2010).
• “Barriers to Implication” in Hume, ‘Is’, and ‘Ought’: New Essays edited by Charles Pigden (Palgrave MacMillan, 2010).

Social and Political Philosophy of Logic and Language

• “Subordinating Speech and Speaking Up“ in Oxford Studies in Philosophy of Language
  Lepore and D. Sosa (eds) volume 1, 178–207, (Oxford University Press, 2019)
  DOI: 10.1093/oso/9780198836568.003.0007
• “Logic: a feminist approach” in Philosophy for Girls: An invitation to the life of thought
  Melissa Shew and Kim Garchar (eds) (Oxford University Press, 2020)

Appointments and affiliations

• Professorial Fellow at the University of St Andrews (2019-2024)

Editorial roles

• Philosophy of Logic subject editor for the Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy