Nicholas John Griffin is a retired Canadian-based philosopher. [1] He was Director of the Bertrand Russell Centre at McMaster University, Hamilton, Ontario, where he held a Canada Research Chair in Philosophy. [2]
Griffin has a bachelor's degree from the University of Leicester, and a Ph.D. from the Australian National University. [3] His 1974 dissertation, Relative Identity, was supervised by Richard Sylvan; [4] he later published it as a book. His area of research is Bertrand Russell.