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Lecture paper on Tarski's theory of truth

Arthur Prior and Rudi Ziedins in front of Prior's home at 23 Vernon Terrace in Christchurch. Rudi Ziedins came to teach philosophy at the University of Canterbury in 1958, just before Prior left for the UK. He taught at Canterbury until 1969.

Arthur Prior and his half brother Owen (born 1928)

Arthur Prior, with daughter Ann on his back, tutoring son Martin and his friend Philip Woollaston in the backyard. Philip Woollaston, the son of the artist Toss Woollaston, was a Labour minister from 1984-90.

Mary Prior with the University of Canterbury staff members, inside the university complex in Christchurch

The Priors in front of their home on 23 Vernon Terrace, Christchurch in 1958.
From left, Phillip Wollaston (family friend, son of the artist Toss Woollaston), Martin, Ann
Mary and Arthur Prior

The Priors at a family gathering in Wellington in 1958, at the house of Arthur's half brother Owen. From left: Ann (daughter), Mary (wife), Martin (son), Norman (Arthur's father, sitting), Arthur Prior, Jessie (step mother) holding two babies

Photographs of K. Popper's student and Arthur Prior's colleague in Manchester, Czesław Lejewski. Lejewski (1913-2001) was a Polish philosopher and logician, who grew out of the Lwow-Warsaw School of Logic. He studied under Jan Łukasiewicz in pre-WWII…

Arthur Prior in 1960

A memoir about Arthur Prior's life and work by his colleague and friend Anthony Kenny, written as an obituary for the British Academy. Kenny and Prior were both Philosophy Tutors at Balliol College in Oxford in the years before Prior's death.