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PROF GRAHAM PRIEST



Contact Details

Organization: Philosophy, Anthropology and Social Inquiry
Position: HEAD, SCHOOL OF PHILOSOPHY
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Work: 8344 7118
Fax: 8344 4280
Room: 222
Level: 02
Building: Old Quadrangle Building
Campus: Parkville

Research Expertise and International Linkages

Research Expertise

Research Interest Key Words Country of Expertise
Logic; Metaphysics; History of Philosophy (Eastern & Western) Philosophy Australia

Qualifications, Honours, Fellowships and Other Awards

Qualifications

Title Institution Date Awarded Abbreviation
Bachelor of Arts University of Cambridge 31-Dec-1970
Doctor of Letters University of Melbourne 31-Dec-2002
Master of Arts University of Cambridge 31-Dec-1974
Master of Science University of London 31-Dec-1971
Doctor of Philosophy University of London 31-Dec-1974

Fellowships

Fellowship Date Awarded
Fellow of the Australian Academy of the Humanities (FAHA) 31-Dec-1995

Government Research Classifications

Research Fields, Courses and Discipline Classifications

Socio-Economic Objective Classifications

Grants and Contracts

Research Grants, Contracts and Consultancies awarded to the University of Melbourne as the administering institution (since 2003) as recorded in Themis Agreements.

Grants

Title Role Funding Source Scheme Award Date
Logic, abstraction and construction Chief Investigator AUST RESEARCH COUNCIL Discovery Projects 01/01/2005
THE ONE AND THE MANY - THE PATH THROUGH CONTRADICTION Chief Investigator AUST RESEARCH COUNCIL Discovery Projects 01/01/2008

Publications

Publications produced at the University of Melbourne and reported in the Annual Publications Collection and 'Research Report' since 2001. The Themis Publications module, released in November 2006, allows additional publications from previous institutions and publications from past years to be entered.

Publications in 2008

Books

  • Einfuhrung in die nicht-klassische logic
    Year: 2008
    Publisher: Mentis Verlag GmbH(Paderborn)
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  • Introduction to Non-Classical Logic: From If to Is  
    Year: 2008
    Publisher: Cambridge University Press(Cambridge)
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  • Japanese Translation of Logic: A very short introduction
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    Publisher: Iwanami Shoten(Tokyo)

Book Chapters

  • Envelopes and Indifference
    Year: 2008
    Book: Dialogues, Logics and Other Strange Things, essays in honour of Shahid Rahman
    Publisher: College Publications(London)
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Journal Articles

  • Creating Non-Existents: Some Initial Thoughts
    Year: 2008
    Journal: Studies in Logic
    Volume: 1
    Issue: 1
    Page numbers: 18 - 24
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  • Graham Priest and Diderik Batens Interview each other
    Year: 2008
    Journal: The Reasoner
    Volume: 2
    Issue: 8
    Page numbers: 2 - 4
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  • Jaina Logic: A Contemporary Perspective
    Year: 2008
    Journal: History and Philosophy of Logic
    Volume: 74
    Issue: 3
    Page numbers: 263 - 278
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  • Precis of Towards Non-Being
    Year: 2008
    Journal: Philosophy and Phenomenological Research
    Volume: 76
    Issue: 1
    Page numbers: 185 - 190
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  • Replies to Nolan and Kroon
    Year: 2008
    Journal: Philosophy and Phenomenological Research
    Volume: 76
    Issue: 1
    Page numbers: 208 - 214
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  • The Closing of the Mind: How the Particular Quantifier Became Existentially Loaded Behind our Backs
    Year: 2008
    Journal: Review of Symbolic Logic
    Volume: 1
    Issue: 1
    Page numbers: 42 - 55
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  • The Way of the Dialetheist: Contradictions in Buddhism
    Year: 2008
    Journal: Philosophy East and West
    Volume: 58
    Page numbers: 395 - 402
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Publications in 2007

Book Chapters

  • Paraconsistency and Dialetheism
    Year: 2007
    Book: Handbook of the History of Logic: The many valued and nonmonotonic turn in logic
    Publisher: Elsevier(Amsterdam)
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  • Revenge, Field, and ZF
    Year: 2007
    Book: Revenge of the Liar: New Essays on the Paradox
    Publisher: Oxford University Press(Oxford)
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Journal Articles

  • How the Particular Quantifier became Existentially Loaded Behind our Backs
    Year: 2007
    Journal: Soochow Journal of Philosophical Studies
    Volume: 16
    Issue: 16
    Page numbers: 197-213
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Publications in 2006

Books

  • Doubt truth to be a liar
    Year: 2006
    Publisher: Oxford University Press(New York)
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  • In Contradiction: a study of the transconsistent
    Year: 2006
    Publisher: Oxford University Press(Oxford)
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Book Chapters

  • Preface to Teorie dell'assurdo by Francesco Berto
    Year: 2006
    Book: Teorie dell'assurdo
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  • The paradoxes of denotation
    Year: 2006
    Book: Self-reference
    Publisher: CSLI Publications(Stanford)
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  • Zen and the art of Harley riding
    Year: 2006
    Book: Harley-Davidson and Philosophy
    Publisher: Open Court(Chicago)
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Journal Articles

  • A hundred flowers
    Year: 2006
    Journal: Topoi
    Volume: 25
    Issue: 1-2
    Page numbers: 91-95
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  • Relevant restricted quantification
    Year: 2006
    Journal: Journal of Philosophical Logic
    Volume: 35
    Issue: 6
    Page numbers: 587-598
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  • What is Philosophy?
    Year: 2006
    Journal: Philosophy
    Volume: 81
    Issue: 316
    Page numbers: 189-208
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Conference Publications/Papers

  • The limits of knowledge
    Year: 2006
    Event name: Logica 2005
    Conference Publication: The Logica Yearbook 2005
    Volume: 9
    Issue: 1
    Page numbers: 165-175
    Publisher: Filosofia(Prague)
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Publications in 2005

Books

  • Towards non-being
    Year: 2005
    Publisher: Oxford University Press(Oxford)
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Book Chapters

  • Spiking the field-artillery
    Year: 2005
    Book: Deflationism and paradox
    Publisher: Oxford University Press(Oxford)
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Journal Articles

  • Book Review: Mares, Edwin, Relevant Logic: A philosophical Interpretation, Cambridge: CUP 2004
    Year: 2005
    Journal: Australasian Journal of Philosophy
    Volume: 83
    Issue: 3
    Page numbers: 431-445
    Publisher: Oxford University Press(Oxford)
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  • Problems with the argument from fine tuning
    Year: 2005
    Journal: Synthese
    Volume: 145
    Issue: July 2005
    Page numbers: 325-338
    Publisher: Springer Science+Business Media(Dordrecht)
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  • Review: Karel Lambert. Free Logic: Selected Essays. CUP 2003
    Year: 2005
    Journal: Philosophia Mathematica
    Volume: 13
    Issue: 3
    Page numbers: 326-328
    Publisher: Wilfrid Laurier University Press(Waterloo, ON)
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  • Review: Truth and paradox: solving the riddles. Tim Maudlin. OUP 2004
    Year: 2005
    Journal: Journal of Philosophy
    Volume: CII
    Issue: 9
    Page numbers: 483-486
    Publisher: Journal of Philosophy(New York)
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Major Reference Works

  • The limits of language:'The Limits of Language' in The Encyclopedia of language and linguistics, 2nd ed., Brown, K. (ed)
    Year: 2005
    Reference Work Title: The limits of language
    Publisher: Elsevier(Oxford)
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Publications in 2004

Books

  • Lewisian themes
    Year: 2004
    Publisher: Oxford University Press(Oxford)
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  • The law of non-contradiction
    Year: 2004
    Publisher: Oxford University Press(Oxford)
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Book Chapters

  • Geometries and arithmetics
    Year: 2004
    Book: Alternative logics. Do sciences need them?
    Publisher: Springer-Verlag Heidelberg(Heidelberg)
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  • Wittgenstein's remarks on Godel's theorem
    Year: 2004
    Book: Wittgenstein's lasting significance
    Publisher: Routledge(London)
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Journal Articles

  • Chunk and permeate, a paraconsistent inference strategy. Part I: the infinitesimal calculus
    Year: 2004
    Journal: Journal of Philosophical Logic
    Volume: 33
    Issue: 4
    Page numbers: 379-388
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  • Intentionality:meinongianism and the medievals
    Year: 2004
    Journal: Australasian Journal of Philosophy
    Volume: 82
    Issue: 3
    Page numbers: 421-442
    Publisher: Oxford University Press(Oxford)
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Conference Publications/Papers

  • Consistency, paraconsistency, and the logical limitative theorems
    Year: 2004
    Event name: XIX Deutscher kongress fur philosophie
    Conference Publication: Grenzen und grenzuber-schreitungen XIX Deutscher kongress fur philosophie
    Page numbers: 535-544
    Publisher: Akademie Verlag(Berlin)
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Publications in 2003

Book Chapters

  • A site for Sorites
    Year: 2003
    Book: Liars and heaps: new essays on paradox
    Publisher: Oxford University Press(New York)
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  • Inconsistent arithmetics: issues technical and philosophical
    Year: 2003
    Book: Trends in logic
    Publisher: Kluwer Academic Publishers(Dordrecht)
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Journal Articles

  • Meinongianism and the philosophy of mathematics
    Year: 2003
    Journal: Philosophia Mathematica
    Volume: 11
    Issue: 3
    Page numbers: 3-15
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  • On alternative geometries, arithmetics, and logics; a tribute to Lukasiewicz
    Year: 2003
    Journal: Studia Logica
    Volume: 74
    Page numbers: 441-468
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  • Where is philosophy at the start of the twenty-first century?
    Year: 2003
    Journal: Aristotelian Society, Proceedings, Supplementary Volume
    Volume: CIII
    Issue: 2003
    Page numbers: 85-100
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  • review article on the book Knowledge and its limits by Timothy Williamson
    Year: 2003
    Journal: Journal of Philosophy
    Volume: C
    Issue: 5
    Page numbers: 268-271
    Publisher: Journal of Philosophy(New York)
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Publications in 2002

Books

  • Beyond the limits of thought
    Year: 2002
    Publisher: Oxford University Press(Oxford)
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Book Chapters

  • Fuzzy relevant logic
    Year: 2002
    Book: Paraconsistency: the logical way to the inconsistent
    Publisher: Dekker - Marcel Dekker(New York)
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  • Inconsistency and the empirical sciences
    Year: 2002
    Book: Inconsistency in science
    Publisher: Kluwer Academic Publishers(Dordrecht)
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  • Logicians setting together contradictories: a perspective on relevance, paraconsistency, and dialetheism
    Year: 2002
    Book: A companion to philosophical logic
    Publisher: Blackwell Publishers(Malden)
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  • Nagarjuna and the limits of thought
    Year: 2002
    Book: Empty words: Buddhist philosophy and cross-cultural interpretation
    Publisher: Oxford University Press(New York)
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  • Paraconsistent logic
    Year: 2002
    Book: Handbook of philosophical logic
    Publisher: Kluwer Academic Publishers(Dordrecht)
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Journal Articles

  • Rational dilemmas
    Year: 2002
    Journal: Analysis
    Volume: 62
    Issue: 1
    Page numbers: 11-15
    Publisher: Blackwell Publishers(Oxford)
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  • The hooded man
    Year: 2002
    Journal: Journal of Philosophical Logic
    Volume: 31
    Issue: 2002
    Page numbers: 445-467
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Publications in 2001

Books

  • An introduction to non-classical logic
    Year: 2001
    Publisher: Cambridge University Press(Cambridge)
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Book Chapters

  • Heidegger and the grammar of being
    Year: 2001
    Book: Grammar in early twentieth-century philosophy
    Publisher: Routledge(London)
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  • Why it's irrational to believe in consistency
    Year: 2001
    Book: Rationality and irrationality
    Publisher: OBV and HTP(Vienna)
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Journal Articles

  • Paraconsistent belief revision
    Year: 2001
    Journal: Theoria: A Swedish Journal of Philosophy
    Volume: 67
    Issue: 3
    Page numbers: 214-228
    Publisher: Thales
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