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.