Jc Beall

{{Short description|American philosopher}} {{EngvarB|date=August 2017}} {{Use dmy dates|date=August 2017}} {{Infobox philosopher | image =Beall3.jpg | caption = Beall in 2017 | region = Western Philosophy | era = Contemporary philosophy | name = Jc Beall | birth_date = {{birth year and age|1966}} | 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<ref>{{Cite web |url=https://journals.tdl.org/jat/index.php/jat |title=Journal of Analytic Theology |publisher=journals.tdl.org |accessdate=July 23, 2019}}</ref> }}

'''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.<ref>{{Cite web |url=https://philosophy.nd.edu/news/news/jc-beall-to-join-notre-dames-faculty-in-fall-2020/ |title=Department of Philosophy |date=11 December 2019 |publisher=nd.edu |accessdate=January 10, 2020}}</ref> He was previously the Board of Trustees Distinguished Professor of Philosophy at the University of Connecticut.<ref>{{Cite web |url=http://philosophy.uconn.edu/faculty/ |title=Faculty |publisher=uconn.edu |accessdate=December 11, 2016}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |url=http://entailments.net/cv/jcb-cv.pdf |title=CV |publisher=entailments.net |accessdate=February 17, 2017}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |url=https://www.worldcat.org/identities/lccn-no2003056998/ |title=Beall, J. C. |publisher=worldcat.org |accessdate=December 11, 2016}}</ref>

==Education and career==

Beall earned a BA in philosophy from Grove City College.<ref name=":0">{{Cite web |title=Jc Beall Curriculum Vitae |url=https://entailments.net/cv/jcb-cv.pdf |website=entailments.net}}</ref> 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.<ref name=":0" /> 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,<ref>{{Cite web |url=https://global.oup.com/academic/product/logical-pluralism-9780199288410?cc=us&lang=en& |title=Logical Pluralism |publisher=global.oup.com |accessdate=February 5, 2017}}</ref> 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)<ref>{{Cite web |url=https://global.oup.com/academic/product/spandrels-of-truth-9780199268733?cc=us&lang=en& |title=Spandrels of Truth |publisher=global.oup.com |accessdate=February 5, 2017}}</ref> (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.<ref>{{Cite web |url=http://entailments.net/papers/td.pdf |publisher=entailments.net |title=Transparent Disquotationalism |accessdate=February 5, 2017}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |url=https://entailments.net/papers/tfbn.pdf |publisher=entailments.net |title=There is No Logical Negation: True, False, Both, and Neither |accessdate=August 26, 2017}}</ref> 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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==External links== *[http://entailments.net/ Personal website]

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