Professor Dr. Gillian Russell

Biography

Gillian Russell completed her PhD in Philosophy at Princeton University in 2004. She held a Killam postdoctoral position at the University of Alberta, followed by teaching positions at Washington University in St. Louis, where she received tenure in 2011, and the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, where she served as Alumni Distinguished Professor. In 2020, she moved to the Dianoia Research Institute in Melbourne and joined the Australian National University in July 2024. Russell continues her association as a Visiting Professorial Fellow at the Arché Research Center, University of St Andrews in Scotland. Her research encompasses philosophy, with an emphasis on logic and language, particularly in the realms of metaphysics and epistemology, barriers to entailment including Hume's Law, the analytic/synthetic distinction, and feminist logic. She has published extensively on these topics and is involved in active research projects aimed at exploring complex theoretical work in philosophy, as well as social and political applications of logic.

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