Nicholas John Griffin is a retired Canadian-based philosopher. He was Director of the Bertrand Russell Centre at

McMaster University McMaster University (McMaster or Mac) is a public research university in Hamilton, Ontario, Canada. The main McMaster campus is on of land near the residential neighbourhoods of Ainslie Wood, Ontario, Ainslie Wood and Westdale, Ontario, Westd ...

, Hamilton, Ontario, where he held a Canada Research Chair in Philosophy. Griffin has a bachelor's degree from the

University of Leicester The University of Leicester ( ) is a public university, public research university based in Leicester, England. The main campus is south of the city centre, adjacent to Victoria Park, Leicester, Victoria Park. The university's predecessor, Univ ...

, and a Ph.D. from the

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. His 1974 dissertation, ''Relative Identity'', was supervised by

Richard Sylvan Richard Sylvan (13 December 1935 – 16 June 1996) was a New Zealand–born philosopher, logician, and environmentalist. Biography Sylvan was born Francis Richard Routley in Levin, New Zealand, and his early work is cited with this surname. H ...

; he later published it as a book. His area of research is

Bertrand Russell Bertrand Arthur William Russell, 3rd Earl Russell, (18 May 1872 – 2 February 1970) was a British philosopher, logician, mathematician, and public intellectual. He had influence on mathematics, logic, set theory, and various areas of analytic ...

Books

Monographs

*''Relative Identity'' (1977) *''Russell's Idealist Apprenticeship'' (1991)

Edited works

*''The Selected Letters of Bertrand Russell, Vol. 1, The Private Years 1884-1914'' 1992 *''The Selected Letters of Bertrand Russell, Vol. 2: The Public Years 1914-1970'' 2001 *''The Cambridge Companion to Bertrand Russell'' 2003 *''Russell vs. Meinong: The Legacy of "On Denoting"'' (with Dale Jacquette) 2008 *''The Palgrave centenary companion to Principia Mathematica'' (with Bernard Linsky) 2013 *''Bertrand Russell: A Pacifist at War'', Letters and Writings 1914-1918 2014Reviews of ''Bertrand Russell: A Pacifist at War'': *Satish Kumar, "A passion For peace", ''Resurgence & Ecologist''

*James Walker, LeftLion

References

External links

Video of Griffin describing research on Bertrand Russell at McMaster University
Year of birth missing (living people) Living people British philosophy academics Alumni of the University of Leicester Australian National University alumni Academic staff of McMaster University {{UK-philosopher-stub