Richard Rowan Rockingham Gill, (born 1944, South Africa

South Africa

The Republic of South Africa is a country in southern Africa. Located at the southern tip of Africa, it is divided into nine provinces, with of coastline on the Atlantic and Indian oceans...

) was a lecturer of philosophy

Philosophy

Philosophy is the study of general and fundamental problems, such as those connected with existence, knowledge, values, reason, mind, and language. Philosophy is distinguished from other ways of addressing such problems by its critical, generally systematic approach and its reliance on rational...

—in particular, logic

Logic

In philosophy, Logic is the formal systematic study of the principles of valid inference and correct reasoning. Logic is used in most intellectual activities, but is studied primarily in the disciplines of philosophy, mathematics, semantics, and computer science...

—and is an author.

Rockingham Gill received a MA

Master of Arts (postgraduate)

A Master of Arts from the Latin Magister Artium, is a type of Master's degree awarded by universities in many countries. The M.A. is usually contrasted with the M.S. or M.Sc. degrees...

 from the University of St Andrews

University of St Andrews

The University of St Andrews, informally referred to as "St Andrews", is the oldest university in Scotland and the third oldest in the English-speaking world after Oxford and Cambridge. The university is situated in the town of St Andrews, Fife, on the east coast of Scotland. It was founded between...

 and has published variously in the Journal of Symbolic Logic

Association for Symbolic Logic

The Association for Symbolic Logic is an international organization of specialists in mathematical logic and philosophical logic—the largest such organization in the world. The ASL was founded in 1936, a crucial year in the development of modern logic, and its first president was Alonzo Church...

, Archiv für mathematische Logik und Grundlagenforschung (Archive for Mathematical Logic and Basic Research) and other journals.

He lectured at the University of Wales, Lampeter

University of Wales, Lampeter

University of Wales, Lampeter is a university in Lampeter, Wales. Founded in 1822 by royal charter, it is the oldest degree awarding institution in Wales and may be the third oldest in England and Wales after Oxford and Cambridge...

 and is also the former head of the Department of Philosophy.

Articles

• The Craig-Lyndon Interpolation Theorem in 3-Valued Logic, The Journal of Symbolic Logic, Vol. 35, № 2 (Jun., 1970), pp. 230–238
• Soviet Oil in the 1980s: Shortage or Surplus?, The RUSI Journal
  RUSI Journal
  The RUSI Journal is a peer-reviewed academic journal published by the Royal United Services Institute for Defence and Security Studies.It describes itself asRUSI Journal is published six times a year...
  
  , Vol. 121, № 2 (Jun., 1976) , pp. 73–77
• On Wandschneider's Way Out, Ratio
  Ratio (journal)
  Ratio is a peer-reviewed academic journal of analytic philosophy, edited by John Cottingham and published by Wiley-Blackwell. Although emphasising work predominantly from analytic philosophy, it does not exclusively publish in one tradition and includes a variety of philosophical topics...
  
  , Vol. 19, № 1 (1977), pp. 85–87
• Frege on Infinite Axiom-Systems, Analysis
  Analysis (journal)
  Analysis is a peer-reviewed academic journal of philosophy established in 1933 that is published quarterly by Oxford University Press on behalf of the Analysis Trust. Prior to January 2009, the journal was published by Blackwell Publishing. Electronic access to this journal is available via JSTOR ,...
  
  , Vol. 47, № 3 (Jun., 1987), pp. 173–175
• The Logic of Common Nouns, Philosophical Books, Vol. 23, № 4 (Feb., 2009), pp 243–244

Book reviews

• Modern Logic—a survey. Historical, Philosophical, and Mathematical Aspects of Modern Logic and its Applications. Edited by Evandro Agazzi, Mind
  Mind (journal)
  Mind is a British journal, currently published by Oxford University Press on behalf of the Mind Association, which deals with philosophy in the analytic tradition...
  
  , New Series, Vol. 92, № 366 (Apr., 1983), pp. 286–288

Reviews

• Hart, W.D., Deducibility and Decidability. By R. R. Rockingham Gill., The Philosophical Quarterly
  The Philosophical Quarterly
  The Philosophical Quarterly is a quarterly academic journal of philosophy established in 1950. It is published by Wiley-Blackwell on behalf of the Scots Philosophical Club and the University of St Andrews. The current editor-in-chief is Tim Mulgan. Every year the journal holds an Essay...
  
  , Vol. 41, № 163 (Apr., 1991), pp. 242–243
• Visser, Albert, Deducibility and Decidability. By R. R. Rockingham Gill., The Journal of Symbolic Logic, Vol. 58, № 3 (Sep., 1993), pp. 1080–1082

External links

• R. R. Rockingham Gill at the University of Wales, Lampeter