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

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, where he was Boyce Gibson Professor of Philosophy and also at the

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Life

Priest was educated at

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and the

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. His thesis advisor was John Lane Bell. He also holds a DLitt from the

. Priest was elected a corresponding fellow of the Australian Academy of the Humanities in 1995. 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

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judge. Presently, he practices

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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 logic Non-classical logics (and sometimes alternative logics or non-Aristotelian logics) are formal systems that differ in a significant way from standard logical systems such as propositional and predicate logic. There are several ways in which this ...

s. 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 Metaphilosophy, sometimes called the philosophy of philosophy, is "the investigation of the nature of philosophy". Its subject matter includes the aims of philosophy, the boundaries of philosophy, and its methods. Thus, while philosophy character ...

(''Beyond the Limits of Thought'', 1995/2002).

Books

References

External links

Graham Priest personal website -- free pdfs of papers available for downloadAn in-depth autobiographical interview with Graham PriestPriest archive on the CUNY Philosophy Commons

Video of Graham Priest & Maureen Eckert on Deviant Logic
* Rationally Speaking
Podcast of Graham Priest on Paradoxes and Paraconsistent Logic
* Arche Foundations of Logical Consequence Workshop 2009
"Is the Ternary R Depraved?"
*The Monthly
Graham priest on Gottlob Frege
*The Philosopher's Zone, 10 July 2010

*The New York Times, The Stone Blog, 28 November 2010
"Paradoxical Truth"
*Graham Priest Photograph (full NYT version
Wikimedia Sept. 2010
*Philosophy TV, 10 January 2011
Discussion of Deviant (Non-Classical) Logic, teaching logic, metafiction and logic with Maureen Eckert (UMASS Dartmouth)
*Two-Part Interview on Florida Student Philosophy Blog
Part 1 General Questions
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Part 2 Technical Questions
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