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Graham Priest
Priest in 2017
Born	(1948-11-14) 14 November 1948 (age 77) London, England
Known for	An Introduction to Non-Classical Logic
Academic background
Education	St John's College, Cambridge (BA, MA) LSE (MSc, PhD) University of Melbourne (DLitt)
Thesis	A type theory in which variables range over predicates (1975)
Doctoral advisor	John Lane Bell
Academic work
Era	Contemporary philosophy
Region	Western philosophy
School or tradition	Analytic philosophy Dialetheism Noneism[1]
Institutions	Graduate Center, CUNY University of Melbourne University of St Andrews University of Queensland University of Western Australia Ruhr University Bochum
Main interests	Logic, metaphysics, history of philosophy,[2] intercultural philosophy
Notable ideas	Dialetheism The other worlds strategy

Graham Priest (born 1948) is a British philosopher and logician who is distinguished professor of philosophy at the CUNY Graduate Center, as well as a regular visitor at the University of Melbourne, where he was Boyce Gibson Professor of Philosophy and also at the University of St Andrews.

Priest was educated at St John's College, Cambridge^[3] and the London School of Economics. His thesis advisor was John Lane Bell. He also holds a DLitt from the University of Melbourne.^[4]

Priest was elected a corresponding fellow of the Australian Academy of the Humanities in 1995.^[5]

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 kata judge. Presently, he practices tai chi.^{[citation needed]}

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

In his 1989 essay, Dialectic and Dialetheic,^[6] Priest has put forward an interpretation of Hegel's Science of Logic as a kind of "paraconsistent" logic, i.e. a dialetheic logic that allows for the existence of true contradictions.^[7]

• Personal website
• An in-depth autobiographical interview with Graham Priest
• Priest archive on the CUNY Philosophy Commons Archived 25 November 2015 at the Wayback Machine
• Video of Graham Priest & Maureen Eckert on Deviant Logic Archived 26 December 2022 at the Wayback Machine
• 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 Archived 19 March 2012 at the Wayback Machine
• The Philosopher's Zone, 10 July 2010: "It's All about Me: A Forum on the Philosophy of the Self"
• 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 and Part 2 Technical Questions.