Jc Beall
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| Born | 1966 (age 57–58) |
| Alma mater | Grove City College (BA) Princeton Theological Seminary (M.Div.) University of Massachusetts Amherst (Ph.D.) |
| Era | Contemporary philosophy |
| Region | Western Philosophy |
| School | Analytic philosophy |
Main interests | Logic, Philosophy of Logic, Analytic Theology |
Notable ideas | Dialetheism, Logical Pluralism, Contradictory Christology [1] |
Jc Beall is an American philosopher working in philosophy of logic and philosophical logic, who since 2020, holds the O’Neill Family Chair of Philosophy at the University of Notre Dame.[2] He was previously the Board of Trustees Distinguished Professor of Philosophy at the University of Connecticut.[3][4][5]
Education and career
[edit]Beall earned a BA in Philosophy from Grove City College.[6] Beall earned his Ph.D. in philosophy from the University of Massachusetts, Amherst, and joined the faculty at the University of Connecticut as an Assistant Professor in 2000.[7] He has also held part-time or visiting appointments at Yonsei University, University of Tasmania, University of Aberdeen, St Andrews University and University of Otago.
Philosophical work
[edit]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 (an Australian logician and philosopher), is a pioneer of a widely discussed version of logical pluralism,[8] 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)[9]).
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.[10][11] 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
[edit]- ^ "Journal of Analytic Theology". journals.tdl.org. Retrieved 23 July 2019.
- ^ "Department of Philosophy". nd.edu. 11 December 2019. Retrieved 10 January 2020.
- ^ "Faculty". uconn.edu. Retrieved 11 December 2016.
- ^ "CV" (PDF). entailments.net. Retrieved 17 February 2017.
- ^ "Beall, J. C." worldcat.org. Retrieved 11 December 2016.
- ^ https://entailments.net/cv/jcb-cv.pdf [bare URL PDF]
- ^ https://entailments.net/cv/jcb-cv.pdf [bare URL PDF]
- ^ "Logical Pluralism". global.oup.com. Retrieved 5 February 2017.
- ^ "Spandrels of Truth". global.oup.com. Retrieved 5 February 2017.
- ^ "Transparent Disquotationalism" (PDF). entailments.net. Retrieved 5 February 2017.
- ^ "There is No Logical Negation: True, False, Both, and Neither" (PDF). entailments.net. Retrieved 26 August 2017.
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