Graham Priest
Graham Priest | |
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 Priest in 2017 | |
| Born | 14 November 1948 London, England |
| Known for | An Introduction to Non-Classical Logic |
| Academic background | |
| Education | St John's College, Cambridge (BA, MA) LSE (MSc, PhD) University of Melbourne (DLitt) |
| Thesis | A type theory in which variables range over predicates (1975) |
| John Lane Bell | |
| Academic work | |
| Era | Contemporary philosophy |
| Region | Western philosophy |
School or tradition | Analytic philosophy Dialetheism Noneism |
| Institutions | Graduate Center, CUNY University of Melbourne University of St Andrews University of Queensland University of Western Australia Ruhr University Bochum |
Main interests | Logic, metaphysics, history of philosophy, intercultural philosophy |
Notable ideas | Dialetheism The other worlds strategy |
Graham Priest (born 1948) is a British 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.