Nicholas Griffin (philosopher)
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
- ''Russell's Idealist Apprenticeship''
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" 2008
- The Palgrave centenary companion to Principia Mathematica 2013
- Bertrand Russell: A Pacifist at War, Letters and Writings 1914-1918 2014