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Nicholas Griffin

b. 1947

British-born philosopher

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Born 1947. Nicholas Griffin is a philosopher, university teacher and logician.

Nicholas John Griffin is a retired Canadian-based philosopher. He was Director of the Bertrand Russell Centre at McMaster University, Hamilton, Ontario, where he held a Canada Research Chair in Philosophy.

Griffin has a bachelor's degree from the University of Leicester, and a Ph.D. from the Australian National University. His 1974 dissertation, Relative Identity, was supervised by Richard Sylvan; he later published it as a book. His area of research is Bertrand Russell.

Books Monographs Relative Identity (1977) Russell's Idealist Apprenticeship (1991)

Edited works The Selected Letters of Bertrand Russell, Vol. 1, The Private Years 1884-1914 1992 The Selected Letters of Bertrand Russell, Vol. 2: The Public Years 1914-1970 2001 The Cambridge Companion to Bertrand Russell 2003 Russell vs. Meinong: The Legacy of "On Denoting" (with Dale Jacquette) 2008 The Palgrave centenary companion to Principia Mathematica (with Bernard Linsky) 2013 Bertrand Russell: A Pacifist at War, Letters and Writings 1914-1918 2014

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1947
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Education
Australian National University, University of Leicester

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British-born philosopher

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