Graham Priest
{{Short description|British philosopher, born 1948}}
{{Use Australian English|date=February 2018}}
{{Use dmy dates|date=October 2023}}
{{Infobox philosopher
| 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 year and age|1948}}
| birth_place = London
| education = St John's College, Cambridge
(BA, MA)
LSE
(MSc, PhD)
University of Melbourne
(DLitt)
| school_tradition = Analytic philosophy
Dialetheism
NoneismGraham Priest, Towards Non-Being: The Logic and Metaphysics of Intentionality, Oxford University Press, 2005, p. vii.
| main_interests = Logic, metaphysics, history of philosophy,[http://www.findanexpert.unimelb.edu.au/researcher/person6650.html Graham Priest's University of Melbourne homepage] intercultural philosophy
| notable_ideas = Dialetheism
The other worlds strategy
| doctoral_advisor = John Lane Bell
| known_for = An Introduction to Non-Classical Logic
}}
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[http://grahampriest.net/ Official website] and the London School of Economics. His thesis advisor was John Lane Bell. He also holds a DLitt from the University of Melbourne.[http://www.gc.cuny.edu/Faculty/Core-Bios/Graham-Priest Priest's CUNY Graduate Center homepage] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150710233917/http://www.gc.cuny.edu/Faculty/Core-Bios/Graham-Priest |date=10 July 2015 }}; [http://www.st-andrews.ac.uk/philosophy/old/gp/gp.html Priest's St. Andrews homepage] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20081210114951/http://www.st-andrews.ac.uk/philosophy/old/gp/gp.html |date=10 December 2008 }}
Priest was elected a corresponding fellow of the Australian Academy of the Humanities in 1995.{{Cite web |title=Fellow Profile: Graham Priest |url=https://humanities.org.au/fellows/fellow-profile/?fellow_id=509 |access-date=2024-04-29 |website=Australian Academy of the Humanities |language=en-AU}}
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|date=December 2024}}
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
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References
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External links
- [http://grahampriest.net/ Graham Priest personal website -- free pdfs of papers available for download]
- [http://www.whatisitliketobeaphilosopher.com/#/graham-priest/ An in-depth autobiographical interview with Graham Priest]
- [http://philosophy.commons.gc.cuny.edu/category/faculty/priest/ Priest archive on the CUNY Philosophy Commons] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20151125041746/http://philosophy.commons.gc.cuny.edu/category/faculty/priest/ |date=25 November 2015 }}
- [http://philosophy.commons.gc.cuny.edu/video-graham-priest-on-devient-logic/ Video of Graham Priest & Maureen Eckert on Deviant Logic]
- Rationally Speaking, [http://philosophy.commons.gc.cuny.edu/graham-priest-on-paradoxes-and-paraconsistent-logic/ Podcast of Graham Priest on Paradoxes and Paraconsistent Logic]
- Arche Foundations of Logical Consequence Workshop 2009, [https://web.archive.org/web/20121002142754/http://www.st-andrews.ac.uk/%7Earchproj/session.php?sessionid=8 "Is the Ternary R Depraved?"]
- The Monthly: [http://www.themonthly.com.au/key-thinkers-graham-priest-gottlob-frege-1917 Graham priest on Gottlob Frege] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120319195919/http://www.themonthly.com.au/key-thinkers-graham-priest-gottlob-frege-1917 |date=19 March 2012 }}
- The Philosopher's Zone, 10 July 2010: [http://www.abc.net.au/rn/philosopherszone/stories/2010/2944921.htm "It's All about Me: A Forum on the Philosophy of the Self"]
- The New York Times, The Stone Blog, 28 November 2010: [http://opinionator.blogs.nytimes.com/2010/11/28/paradoxical-truth/ "Paradoxical Truth"]
- Graham Priest Photograph (full NYT version) [http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Graham_Priest_Sept_2010.JPG Wikimedia Sept. 2010]
- Philosophy TV, 10 January 2011: [http://www.philostv.com/maureen-eckert-and-graham-priest/ Discussion of Deviant (Non-Classical) Logic, teaching logic, metafiction and logic with Maureen Eckert (UMASS Dartmouth)]
- Two-Part Interview on Florida Student Philosophy Blog: [http://unfspb.wordpress.com/2011/02/23/an-interview-with-noted-logician-graham-priest/ Part 1 General Questions] and [http://unfspb.wordpress.com/2011/03/02/part-ii-of-the-interview-with-graham-priest/ Part 2 Technical Questions].
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