Editing Arthur Prior (section)

{{Short description|Logician and philosopher (1914–1969)}}
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{{Infobox philosopher 
| name            = Arthur Norman Prior
| image           = Arthur Prior in Wakefield 1959 from son Martin Prior.png
| alt             = Arthur Prior in Wakefield 1959
| caption         = Prior in 1959
| birth_date      = {{Birth date|1914|12|4|df=yes}}
| birth_place     = [[Masterton]], New Zealand
| death_date      = {{Death date and age|1969|10|6|1914|12|4|df=yes}}
| death_place     = [[Trondheim]], Norway
| nationality       = <!-- use only when necessary per [[WP:INFONAT]] -->
| spouse           = {{ hlist | Clare Hunter | Mary Wilkinson }}
| relatives         = [[Ian Prior (doctor)|Ian Prior]] (half-brother)
| education       = [[University of Otago]] (B.A., 1935; M.A., 1937)<ref name=SEP>[https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/prior/ Arthur Prior (Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy)]</ref>
| institutions    = [[Canterbury University College]]
| school_tradition = [[Analytic philosophy]]
| main_interests   = {{hlist | [[Philosophical logic]] | [[modal logic]]}}
| notable_ideas    = {{hlist | [[Tense logic]] | [[hybrid logic]] | [[intensional logic]] | [[erotetic logic]]<ref>Mary Prior and Arthur Prior, "Erotetic Logic", ''The Philosophical Review'' '''64'''(1) (1955): pp.&nbsp;43–59 {{doi|10.2307/2182232}}.</ref> | [[Prior's tonk]] | Prior's intensional paradox<ref>Andrew Bacon, John Hawthorne & Gabriel Uzquiano, "Higher-order free logic and the Prior-Kaplan paradox", ''Canadian Journal of Philosophy'' '''46'''(4–5): 493–541 (2016).</ref> | Prior's paradox of derived obligation<ref>{{cite SEP |url-id=logic-deontic |title=Deontic Logic |last=McNamara |first=Paul}}</ref> }}
| academic_advisors = [[J. N. Findlay]]<ref name=SEP/>
| doctoral_students = [[Max Cresswell]]<br>[[Kit Fine]]
| notable_students  = [[Genevieve Lloyd]]<ref name=:0>{{Cite web|title=Tree – David Chalmers|url=http://consc.net/tree/|access-date=2020-07-22|language=en-US}}</ref><br>[[Jonathan Bennett (philosopher)|Jonathan Bennett]]<ref name=:0/><br>[[Richard Routley]]
}}

'''Arthur Norman Prior''' (4 December 1914 – 6 October 1969), usually cited as '''A.&nbsp;N. Prior''', was a New Zealand–born [[logician]] and [[philosopher]]. Prior (1957) founded tense logic, now also known as [[temporal logic]], and made important contributions to [[intensional logic]], particularly in Prior (1971).