Graham Priest

Graham Priest
Born 1948
London
Education St John's College, Cambridge
(BA, MA)
LSE
(MSc, PhD)
University of Melbourne
(DLitt)
Era Contemporary philosophy
Region Western philosophy
School Analytic philosophy
Main interests
 Logic, metaphysics, history of philosophy[1]
Notable ideas
 Dialetheism

Graham Priest (born 1948) is Distinguished Professor of Philosophy at the CUNY Graduate Center, as well as a regular visitor at the University of Melbourne where he was Boyce Gibson Professor of Philosophy and also at the University of St Andrews.

Education

Priest was educated at the St John's College, Cambridge[2] and the London School of Economics. His thesis advisor was John Lane Bell. He also holds a DLitt from the University of Melbourne.[3]

Philosophical work

He is known for his defence of dialetheism, his in-depth analyses of the logical paradoxes (holding the thesis that there is a uniform treatment for many well-known paradoxes, such as the semantic, set-theoretic and Liar paradoxes), and his many writings related to paraconsistent and other non-classical logics.

Priest, a long-time resident of Australia, now residing in New York City, is the author of numerous books, and has published articles in nearly every major philosophical and logical journal. He was a frequent collaborator with the late Richard Sylvan, a fellow proponent of dialetheism and paraconsistent logic.

Priest has also published on metaphilosophy.

In addition to his work in philosophy and logic, Priest practiced Karate-do. He is 3rd Dan, International Karate-do Shobukai; 4th Dan, Shi’to Ryu, and an Australian National Kumite Referee and Kata Judge. Presently, he practices Taichi.

Works

References

  1. ↑ Graham Priest's University of Melbourne homepage
  2. ↑ Official website
  3. ↑ Priest's CUNY Graduate Center homepage; Priest's St. Andrews homepage Archived 10 December 2008 at the Wayback Machine.
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