Graham Priest
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Graham Priest
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| Birth | 1948 |
| School/tradition | Analytic philosophy |
| Main interests | Logic |
| Notable ideas | Dialetheism |
Graham Priest (born 1948, London[1]) is Boyce Gibson Professor of Philosophy at the University of Melbourne and a regular visitor at St. Andrews University. Starting in Fall of 2009, he will be teaching full time at CUNY's graduate program in Philosophy. He was educated at Cambridge and the LSE.
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He is known for his bold defense of dialetheism, his in-depth analyses of the semantic paradoxes, and his many writings related to paraconsistent and other non-classical logics.
Priest, a long-time resident of Australia, 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.
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[edit] Books
- Doubt Truth to Be a Liar. Oxford University Press, 2006. ISBN 0-19-926328-0
- In Contradiction: A Study of the Transconsistent. 2nd ed. Oxford University Press, 2006 (originally published 1987). ISBN 0-19-926330-2
- Towards Non-Being: The Logic and Metaphysics of Intentionality. Oxford University Press, 2005. ISBN 0-19-926254-3
- Beyond the Limits of Thought. 2nd ed. Oxford University Press, 2003 (originally published 1995). ISBN 0-19-924421-9
- An Introduction to Non-Classical Logic. Cambridge University Press, 2001. ISBN 0-521-79434-X
- Logic: A Very Short Introduction. Oxford University Press, 2000. ISBN 0-19-289320-3
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- What is so bad about contradictions? Journal of Philosophy, 1998.
- The logic of paradox Journal of Philosophical Logic, 1979, vol. 8, pp. 219-41.
- "Truth and contradiction," Philosophical Quarterly, July 2000, vol. 50, no. 200.
