Jc Beall Explained

Region:Western Philosophy
Era:Contemporary philosophy
Jc Beall
Birth Place:Portsmouth, New Hampshire
Alma Mater:Grove City College
(BA)
Princeton Theological Seminary
(M.Div.)
University of Massachusetts Amherst
(Ph.D.)
School Tradition: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

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

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.

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Notes and References

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