Nicholas Griffin (philosopher)

See also: Nicholas Griffin (disambiguation)

Nicholas John Griffin is a retired Canadian-based philosopher.^[1] He was Director of the Bertrand Russell Centre at McMaster University, Hamilton, Ontario, where he held a Canada Research Chair in Philosophy.^[2]

Griffin has a bachelor's degree from the University of Leicester, and a Ph.D. from the Australian National University.^[3] His 1974 dissertation, Relative Identity, was supervised by Richard Sylvan;^[4] he later published it as a book. His area of research is Bertrand Russell.

Books

Monographs

• Relative Identity (1977)^[5]
• Russell's Idealist Apprenticeship (1991)^[6]

Edited works

• The Selected Letters of Bertrand Russell, Vol. 1, The Private Years 1884-1914 1992^[7]
• The Selected Letters of Bertrand Russell, Vol. 2: The Public Years 1914-1970 2001^[8]
• The Cambridge Companion to Bertrand Russell 2003^[9]
• Russell vs. Meinong: The Legacy of "On Denoting" (with Dale Jacquette) 2008^[10]
• The Palgrave centenary companion to Principia Mathematica (with Bernard Linsky) 2013^[11]
• Bertrand Russell: A Pacifist at War, Letters and Writings 1914-1918 2014^[12]