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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Label	Occurrences
Graham Priest canonical	7

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Predicate	Object
instanceOf	academic ⓘ author ⓘ contemporary philosopher ⓘ logician ⓘ philosopher ⓘ
activeIn	20th-century philosophy ⓘ 21st-century philosophy ⓘ
almaMater	Cambridge University ⓘ surface form: University of Cambridge University of London ⓘ
citizenship	Australian ⓘ
employer	CUNY Graduate Center ⓘ University of Melbourne ⓘ The University of Queensland ⓘ surface form: 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 ⓘ G. W. F. Hegel ⓘ surface form: 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 ⓘ the One ⓘ surface form: 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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Referenced by (7)

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liar paradox → studiedBy → Graham Priest ⓘ

Nicholas Rescher Prize for Systematic Philosophy → hasRecipient → Graham Priest ⓘ

In Contradiction → author → Graham Priest ⓘ

Beyond the Limits of Thought → author → Graham Priest ⓘ

An Introduction to Non-Classical Logic → author → Graham Priest ⓘ

Logic: A Very Short Introduction → author → Graham Priest ⓘ

Logic: A Very Short Introduction → hasContributor → Graham Priest ⓘ