Jc Beall
Jc Beall | |
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| File:Beall3.jpg Beall in 2017 | |
| Born | 1966 (age 59–60) |
| Education | |
| Alma mater | Grove City College (BA) Princeton Theological Seminary (M.Div.) University of Massachusetts Amherst (Ph.D.) |
| Philosophical work | |
| 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 | edit source]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.[6] 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 | edit source]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,[7] 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 of deflationary truth (Spandrels of Truth (2009)[8] (glut theory is the view that there are true contradictions, a special case of which is dialetheism).
Against the standard no-gap tradition in glut theory, 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.[9][10] The adoption of both gaps and gluts distinguishes Beall from other researchers in a broadly glut-theoretic framework, who usually accept only gluts.
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