Graham Priest
Template:Short description Template:Use Australian English Template:Use dmy dates Script error: No such module "Template wrapper".Script error: No such module "Check for clobbered parameters". Graham Priest (born 1948) is a philosopher and logician who 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.
Life
Priest was educated at St John's College, Cambridge[1] and the London School of Economics. His thesis advisor was John Lane Bell. He also holds a DLitt from the University of Melbourne.[2]
Priest was elected a corresponding fellow of the Australian Academy of the Humanities in 1995.[3]
In addition to his work in philosophy and logic, Priest practised karate-do. He is 3rd dan, International Karate-do Shobukai; 4th dan, shitō-ryū, and an Australian National kumite referee and kata judge. Presently, he practices tai chi.Script error: No such module "Unsubst".
Philosophical work
Priest 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 (most notably the textbook An Introduction to Non-Classical Logic), 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 (Beyond the Limits of Thought, 1995/2002).
Books
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References
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 Template:Webarchive
- 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 Template:Webarchive
- 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.
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- ↑ Priest's CUNY Graduate Center homepage Template:Webarchive; Priest's St. Andrews homepage Template:Webarchive
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- 1948 births
- Living people
- Writers from London
- 20th-century Australian philosophers
- 20th-century English philosophers
- 21st-century English philosophers
- English logicians
- Analytic philosophers
- British metaphysicians
- Academic staff of the University of Melbourne
- Paraconsistent logic
- Abstract object theory
- Australian logicians
- Alumni of St John's College, Cambridge
- Alumni of the London School of Economics
- American philosophy academics
- Fellows of the Australian Academy of the Humanities
- Textbook writers