Graham Priest | |
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![]() Priest in 2017 | |
Born | London | 14 November 1948
Known for | An Introduction to Non-Classical Logic |
Education | |
Education | St John's College, Cambridge (BA, MA) LSE (MSc, PhD) University of Melbourne (DLitt) |
Doctoral advisor | John Lane Bell |
Philosophical work | |
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 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.
Priest was educated at 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]
Priest was elected a corresponding fellow of the Australian Academy of the Humanities in 1995. [5]
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.[ citation needed ]
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).