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.
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Born | 1948 (age 75–76) London |
Education | St John's College, Cambridge (BA, MA) LSE (MSc, PhD) University of Melbourne (DLitt) |
Era | Contemporary philosophy |
Region | Western philosophy |
School | Analytic philosophy Dialetheism Noneism[1] |
Doctoral advisor | John Lane Bell |
Main interests | Logic, metaphysics, history of philosophy,[2] intercultural philosophy |
Notable ideas | Dialetheism The other worlds strategy |
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]
He 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, 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).
In addition to his work in philosophy and logic, Priest practiced Karate-do. He is 3rd Dan, International Karate-do Shobukai; 4th Dan, Shi’to Ryu, and an Australian National Kumite Referee and Kata Judge. Presently, he practices Taichi.