Graham Priest
contemporaryAnalytic Philosophy, Paraconsistent Logic, Dialetheismb. 1948
Graham Priest (born 1948) is a British-Australian philosopher and logician, Distinguished Professor at the CUNY Graduate Center and Emeritus Professor at the University of Melbourne. He is the foremost proponent of dialetheism—the view that some contradictions are genuinely true—and a leading developer of paraconsistent logic, which tolerates contradictions without logical explosion.
Notable Achievements
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Developed and defended dialetheism as a serious metaphysical and logical position
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Pioneered LP (Logic of Paradox), a three-valued paraconsistent logic
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Authored 'In Contradiction' (1987), the canonical text on true contradictions
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Advanced the Inclosure Schema as a unified account of semantic and set-theoretic paradoxes
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Contributed to Buddhist logics and non-classical logic via cross-traditional philosophy