Graham Priest

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academic author contemporary philosopher logician philosopher

Graham Priest is a prominent contemporary philosopher and logician best known for his work on non-classical logics, especially dialetheism, and his influential analyses of logical paradoxes.

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instanceOf	academic → author → contemporary philosopher → logician → philosopher →
activeIn	20th-century philosophy → 21st-century philosophy →
almaMater	University of Cambridge NERFINISHED → University of London →
citizenship	Australian →
employer	CUNY Graduate Center → University of Melbourne → University of Queensland → University of St Andrews →
field	Buddhist philosophy → logic → metaphysics → non-classical logic → philosophy → philosophy of logic →
hasConcept	glut theory of truth → logic of paradox → routley star semantics → true contradictions →
hasWrittenOn	Buddhist metaphysics → inconsistency → logical consequence → metaphysical limits → philosophy of mathematics → philosophy of religion → truth →
influencedBy	Buddhist logic → Hegel → paraconsistent logicians →
knownFor	An Introduction to Non-Classical Logic → Beyond the Limits of Thought → In Contradiction → Logic: A Very Short Introduction → One → applications of paraconsistent logic → defense of true contradictions → dialetheism → non-classical logics → paraconsistent logic → work on logical paradoxes → work on semantic paradoxes → work on set-theoretic paradoxes → work on the Liar paradox →
language	English →
nationality	British →
notableWork	An Introduction to Non-Classical Logic → Beyond the Limits of Thought → In Contradiction → Logic: A Very Short Introduction → One →
philosophicalPosition	dialetheism → non-classical logic pluralism → paraconsistentism → views influenced by Buddhist philosophy →
position	Boyce Gibson Professor of Philosophy at the University of Melbourne → Distinguished Professor of Philosophy at the CUNY Graduate Center →

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liar paradox →	studiedBy