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Graham Priest

British philosopher, born 1948

Field	Value
region	Western philosophy
era	Contemporary philosophy
image	Buddhism & Science - Interview with Graham Priest (cropped).png
caption	Priest in 2017
name	Graham Priest
birth_date
birth_place	London
education	St John's College, Cambridge
(BA, MA)
LSE
(MSc, PhD)
University of Melbourne
(DLitt)
school_tradition	Analytic philosophy
Dialetheism
Noneism
main_interests	Logic, metaphysics, history of philosophy, intercultural philosophy
notable_ideas	Dialetheism
The other worlds strategy
doctoral_advisor	John Lane Bell
known_for	An Introduction to Non-Classical Logic

(BA, MA) LSE (MSc, PhD) University of Melbourne (DLitt) Dialetheism Noneism The other worlds strategy 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 and the London School of Economics. His thesis advisor was John Lane Bell. He also holds a DLitt from the University of Melbourne.

Priest was elected a corresponding fellow of the Australian Academy of the Humanities in 1995.

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.

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

References

Graham Priest, ''Towards Non-Being: The Logic and Metaphysics of Intentionality'', Oxford University Press, 2005, p. vii.
[http://www.findanexpert.unimelb.edu.au/researcher/person6650.html Graham Priest's University of Melbourne homepage]
[http://grahampriest.net/ Official website]
[http://www.gc.cuny.edu/Faculty/Core-Bios/Graham-Priest Priest's CUNY Graduate Center homepage] {{Webarchive. link. (10 July 2015 ; [http://www.st-andrews.ac.uk/philosophy/old/gp/gp.html Priest's St. Andrews homepage] {{webarchive). link. (10 December 2008)
"Fellow Profile: Graham Priest".

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