Graham (Grammy) Priest (born 1948) is Boyce Gibson Professor of Philosophy at the University of Melbourne and a regular visitor at St. Andrews University. He is known for his bold defense of dialetheism, his in-depth analyses of the semantic paradoxes, and his many writings related to paraconsistent and other non-classical logics. This article or section does not cite its references or sources. ... Analytic philosophy is a generic term for a style of philosophy that came to prominence during the 20th Century. ... Logic, from Classical Greek λόγος logos (the word), is the study of the principles and criteria of valid inference and demonstration. ... Dialetheism is a paraconsistent logic typified by its tolerance of at least some contradictions. ... 1948 (MCMXLVIII) was a leap year starting on Thursday (the link is to a full 1948 calendar). ... The philosopher Socrates about to take poison hemlock as ordered by the court. ... The Old Quad Building, formerly Old Law The University of Melbourne, located in Melbourne, Victoria, is the second oldest university in Australia, and the oldest in Victoria. ... University of St Andrews The University of St Andrews was founded between 1410-1413 and is the oldest university in Scotland and the third oldest in the United Kingdom. ... Dialetheism is a paraconsistent logic typified by its tolerance of at least some contradictions. ... Robert Boyles self-flowing flask fills itself in this diagram, but perpetual motion machines do not exist. ... A paraconsistent logic is a logical system that attempts to deal nontrivially with contradictions. ... Classical logic identifies a class of formal logics that have been most intensively studied and most widely used. ...

Priest, a native of Great Britian(birth place), is the author of numerous books, 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. Richard Sylvan, born as Richard Routley (1935 - 16 June 1996) was a philosopher and writer. ...

Selected works

Books

• Doubt Truth to Be a Liar. Oxford University Press, 2006. ISBN 0-19-926328-0
• In Contradiction: A Study of the Transconsistent. 2nd ed. Oxford University Press, 2006 (originally published 1987). ISBN 0-19-926330-2
• Towards Non-Being: The Logic and Metaphysics of Intentionality. Oxford University Press, 2005. ISBN 0-19-926254-3
• Beyond the Limits of Thought. 2nd ed. Oxford University Press, 2003 (originally published 1995). ISBN 0-19-924421-9
• An Introduction to Non-Classical Logic. Cambridge University Press, 2001. ISBN 0-521-79434-X
• Logic: A Very Short Introduction. Oxford University Press, 2000. ISBN 0-19-289320-3

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Articles

• What is so bad about contradictions? Journal of Philosophy, 1998.
• The logic of paradox Journal of Philosophical Logic, 1979, vol. 8, pp. 219-41.

• "Truth and contradiction," Philosophical Quarterly, July 2000, vol. 50, no. 200.