Jc Beall

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Jc Beall
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Born1966
Portsmouth, NH
Alma materPrinceton Theological Seminary
(M.Div.)
University of Massachusetts Amherst
(Ph.D.)
EraContemporary philosophy
RegionWestern Philosophy
SchoolAnalytic philosophy
Main interests
Logic, Philosophy of Logic, Analytic Theology
Notable ideas
Dialetheism, Logical Pluralism, Contradictory Christology [1]
Influences

Jc Beall is an American philosopher, formerly the Board of Trustees Distinguished Professor of Philosophy at University of Connecticut.[2][3][4] As of late 2020 Beall holds the O’Neill Family Chair of Philosophy at the University of Notre Dame.[5]

Work[]

Beall is best known in philosophy for contributions to philosophical logic (particularly non-classical logic) and to the philosophy of logic. Beall, together with Greg Restall (a Melbourne logician and philosopher), is a pioneer of a widely discussed version of logical pluralism,[6] according to which any given natural language has not one but many relations of logical consequence. Beall is also widely known for advocating a glut-theoretic account (see: dialetheism) of deflationary truth (Spandrels of Truth (2009)[7]).

Against the standard no-gap tradition in glut theory, also known as dialetheism (a neologism coined by philosophers Richard Sylvan and Graham Priest), Beall's early and post-2013 work advocates a gluts-and-gaps account of language, advocating not only the existence of truth-value gluts but also of truth-value gaps.[8][9] The adoption of both gaps and gluts distinguishes Beall from other researchers in a broadly glut-theoretic ("dialethic") framework, who usually accept only gluts.

References[]

  1. ^ "Journal of Analytic Theology". journals.tdl.org. Retrieved 23 July 2019.
  2. ^ "Faculty". uconn.edu. Retrieved 11 December 2016.
  3. ^ "CV" (PDF). entailments.net. Retrieved 17 February 2017.
  4. ^ "Beall, J. C." worldcat.org. Retrieved 11 December 2016.
  5. ^ "Department of Philosophy". nd.edu. Retrieved 10 January 2020.
  6. ^ "Logical Pluralism". global.oup.com. Retrieved 5 February 2017.
  7. ^ "Spandrels of Truth". global.oup.com. Retrieved 5 February 2017.
  8. ^ "Transparent Disquotationalism" (PDF). entailments.net. Retrieved 5 February 2017.
  9. ^ "There is No Logical Negation: True, False, Both, and Neither" (PDF). entailments.net. Retrieved 26 August 2017.

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