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Father Innocenty (Józef) M. Bocheński (1902 – 1995), Polish catholic philosopher and logician, whose books on logic had profound influence on Arthur Prior. After the WWII, Bocheński taught history of the 20th century philosophy at the University of…

Audio recording and transcript of the interview with Prof. Max Cresswell, who was Arthur Prior's PhD student in Manchester, and later a colleague and a friend. The interview was conducted in March 2018.

A photograph of Prior's student Robert Bull

A photograph of Arthur's colleague Carew Arthur Meredith (28 July 1904 – 31 March 1976), taken in Dublin in 1947. Meredith was a mathematician at the Trinity College Dublin and developed strong interest in formal logic under the influence of Jan…

A photograph of young Jan Łukasiewicz (21 December 1878 – 13 February 1956), the famous founder of the Polish school of logic, who had enormous influence on Arthur Prior's own development as a logician. Łukasiewicz is the inventor of the Polish…

Arthur Prior in 1960

Arthur Prior carrying baby daughter Ann in a 'cuddle seat', near the Cathedral Square in Central Christchurch, in early 1951.

Mary and Arthur Prior, holding his newly born son Martin in 1944. Arthur is dressed in military uniform, as he was then serving in (RNZAF) Royal New Zealand Air Force, stationed in Wigram, Christchurch.

The wedding photograph of Bessie (Elizabeth Munton Rothesay Teague) and Norman Prior. Sitting from left: the youngest sister of Bessie, Monica; Bessie's mother, Mrs. Teague; Bessie, second youngest sister of Bessie, Dora; standing from left:…

46 Perry St. Masterton, New Zealand: the family home and the GP office of Dr. Norman Prior, Arthur's father. Norman himself was born in that house and continued to live there when in 1912 he married his first wife and Arthur's mother Bessie, who died…