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.