Graham Priest
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.
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Born | 1948 (age 71–72) 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 Dialetheism Noneism[1] |
Main interests | Logic, metaphysics, history of philosophy,[2] intercultural philosophy |
Notable ideas | Dialetheism |
Influences
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Education
Priest was educated at the St John's College, Cambridge[3] and the London School of Economics. His thesis advisor was John Lane Bell. He also holds a DLitt from the University of Melbourne.[4]
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. In these he draws on the history of philosophy, including Asian philosophy.
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
- Graham Priest, Towards Non-Being: The Logic and Metaphysics of Intentionality, Oxford University Press, 2005, p. vii.
- Graham Priest's University of Melbourne homepage
- Official website
- Priest's CUNY Graduate Center homepage; Priest's St. Andrews homepage Archived 10 December 2008 at the Wayback Machine
External links
- Graham Priest personal website -- free pdfs of papers available for download
- An in-depth autobiographical interview with Graham Priest
- Priest archive on the CUNY Philosophy Commons
- Video of Graham Priest & Maureen Eckert on Deviant Logic
- Rationally Speaking, Podcast of Graham Priest on Paradoxes and Paraconsistent Logic
- Arche Foundations of Logical Consequence Workshop 2009, "Is the Ternary R Depraved?"
- The Monthly: Graham priest on Gottlob Frege
- The Philosopher's Zone, 10 July 2010: "It's All about Me: A Forum on the Philosophy of the Self"
- The New York Times, The Stone Blog, 28 November 2010: "Paradoxical Truth"
- Graham Priest Photograph (full NYT version) Wikimedia Sept. 2010
- Philosophy TV, 10 January 2011: Discussion of Deviant (Non-Classical) Logic, teaching logic, metafiction and logic with Maureen Eckert (UMASS Dartmouth)
- Two-Part Interview on Florida Student Philosophy Blog: Part 1 General Questions and Part 2 Technical Questions.