Jc Beall

Jc Beall
Born 1966
Portsmouth, NH
Alma mater Princeton Theological Seminary
(MDiv)
UMass Amherst
(PhD)
Era Contemporary philosophy
Region Western Philosophy
School Analytic philosophy
Main interests
 Logic, Philosophy of Logic, Analytic Theology
Notable ideas
 Dialetheism, Logical Pluralism

Jc Beall is an American philosopher, currently the Board of Trustees Distinguished Professor of Philosophy at University of Connecticut,.[1][2][3]

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,[4] 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)[5]).

Against the standard no-gap tradition in glut theory, also known as dialetheism (most famous in the philosopher Graham Priest’s work), 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.[6][7] The adoption of both gaps and gluts distinguishes Beall from other researchers in a broadly dialetheist framework, who usually accept only gluts.

References

  1. ↑ "Faculty". uconn.edu. Retrieved December 11, 2016.
  2. ↑ "CV" (PDF). entailments.net. Retrieved February 17, 2017.
  3. ↑ "Beall, J. C." worldcat.org. Retrieved December 11, 2016.
  4. ↑ "Logical Pluralism". global.oup.com. Retrieved February 5, 2017.
  5. ↑ "Spandrels of Truth". global.oup.com. Retrieved February 5, 2017.
  6. ↑ "Transparent Disquotationalism" (PDF). entailments.net. Retrieved February 5, 2017.
  7. ↑ "There is No Logical Negation: True, False, Both, and Neither" (PDF). entailments.net. Retrieved August 26, 2017.


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