Griffin, Nicholas -

Personal Information
First Name: 
Nicholas
Last Name: 
Griffin
Department / Program: 
Philosophy
University Affiliation: 
McMaster University
Phone: 
9055259140
Extension: 
23469
Email Address: 
Area of Research
Geographical Region: 
Great Britain
Time Period: 
19th and 20th Century
Specific Area of Research: 
Bertrand Russell, philosophical logic, epistemology, 19th and 20th century intellectual history
Academics
PHD Program: 
Philosophy
PHD University: 
Australian National University
PHD Date: 
1975
Major Publications: 
Relative Identity, Oxford University Press, Clarendon Library of Logic and Philosophy, 1977, xii + 234 pp. The Collected Papers of Bertrand Russell, Vol. l: Cambridge Essays, 1888_99, edited with K. Blackwell, A. Brink, R. Rempel and J. Slater, London, Allen and Unwin, 1983, xxxiv + 554 pp. The Collected Papers of Bertrand Russell, Vol. 2: Philosophical Papers, 1896-99, edited with A.C. Lewis, London: Unwin Hyman, 1990, xxxix + 647 pp. Russell's Idealist Apprenticeship (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1991), xiv + 410pp. The Selected Letters of Bertrand Russell, vol. 1, The Private Years 1884-1914 (London: Allen Lane Press; New York: Houghton Mifflin) xxi + 553 pp. The Selected Letters of Bertrand Russell, Vol. 2, The Public Years 1914-1970, with the assistance of Alison Roberts Miculan, (London and New York: Routledge, 2001) , xxi + 660 pp. The Selected Letters of Bertrand Russell, 2 vols., paperback edition; London, Routledge, 2002; xxiii + 540 pp. and xix + 660 pp. (Both volumes reissued in paperback.) The Cambridge Companion to Russell, ed. (Cambridge University Press, 2003), xvii+550pp. "Through the Woods to Meinong's Jungle", in Kent A. Peacock and Andrew D. Irvine (eds.) Mistakes of Reason. Essays in Honour of John Woods, (Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2005), pp. 15-32 "Bertrand Russell and Harold Joachim", Russell: The Journal of Bertrand Russell Studies, N.S. Vol. 27, no. 2, (Winter 2007-08), pp. 220-244. "Rethinking Item Theory", in Nicholas Griffin and Dale Jacquette (eds.) Russell vs Meinong. The Legacy of 'On Denoting', (London, New York: Routledge, 2008), pp. 204-232. "Psychologism and the Development of Russell's Account of Propositions" (with David M. Godden), History and Philosophy of Logic vol. 30, No. 2, pp. 171-186.
Membership in Academic Societies: 
Member, Mind Association Member, Informal Logic Association Member, Wolfson College Association
Courses Taught: 
Undergraduate: 2002-03 Philosophy 3O03/Theory of Knowledge Philosophy 3W03/Reading Course on Common Sense Philosophy 6 units release time as Director of Bertrand Russell Research Centre 3 units via Canadian Research Chair 2003-04 Philosophy 4D03/Analytic Philosophy 2004-05 Philosophy 3O03/ Theory of Knowledge Philosophy 3W03 Reading course on Russell and the Ontological Argument 2005-06 Philosophy 4D03/Analytic Philosophy 2006-07 Philosophy 3O03/Theory of Knowledge 3 Units as Head of Russell Research Centre 3 Units from Canadian Research Chair ii) Graduate: 1997-98 Philosophy 731/Special Studies in Philosophy: Theories of Truth Philosophy 6D03/20th Century Analytic Philosophy Philosophy 719/Reading Course/Meinong (Guelph) 1998-99 Philosophy 762/Selected Topics in Metaphysics: