Nicholas Griffin is a Canadian-based philosopher. He is Director of the Bertrand Russell Centre at
McMaster University
McMaster University (McMaster or Mac) is a public research university in Hamilton, Ontario, Canada. The main McMaster campus is on of land near the residential neighbourhoods of Ainslie Wood and Westdale, adjacent to the Royal Botanical Ga ...
, Hamilton, Ontario, where he holds a Canada Research Chair in Philosophy. Griffin's main area of research is
Bertrand Russell
Bertrand Arthur William Russell, 3rd Earl Russell, (18 May 1872 – 2 February 1970) was a British mathematician, philosopher, logician, and public intellectual. He had a considerable influence on mathematics, logic, set theory, linguistics, ...
. In reviewing Griffin's book ''Russell's Idealist Apprenticeship'',
Ray Monk
Ray Monk (born 15 February 1957) is a British biographer who is renowned for his biographies of Ludwig Wittgenstein, Bertrand Russell, and J. Robert Oppenheimer. He is emeritus professor of philosophy at the University of Southampton, where he ...
comments that Griffin's account of Russell's early philosophical development 'is more detailed, more coherent, more plausible and ultimately more interesting' than some previous accounts, and that the book is 'one of the finest works of philosophical scholarship I have ever read'.
Books
*''Relative Identity'' (1977)
*''Russell's Idealist Apprenticeship'' (1991)
*''The Selected Letters of Bertrand Russell, Vol. 1, The Private Years 1884-1914'' (editor) 1992
*''The Selected Letters of Bertrand Russell, Vol. 2: The Public Years 1914-1970'' (editor) 2001
*''The Cambridge Companion to Bertrand Russell'' (editor) 2003
*''Bertrand Russell. A Pacifist at War: Letters and Writings 1914-1918 (editor) 2014
References
External links
Video of Griffin describing research on Bertrand Russell at McMaster University
Year of birth missing (living people)
Living people
British philosophers
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