Jc Beall

Doctorate: University of Massachusetts, Amherst

Email: Jc Beall

Jc Beall has a two-year appointment as a Professor of Philosophy at the University of Otago. In addition he is a Professor at the University of Connecticut, a member of the UConn Logic Group, an Associate Fellow at the Northern Institute of Philosophy at Aberdeen, and an Associate Fellow of Arche, the AHRC Research Centre for the Philosophy of Logic, Language, Mathematics, and Epistemology. Though having wide philosophical interests, Jc has published mainly in philosophical logic and the philosophy of logic.

Research Interests

Beall's research interests are chiefly in logic and (the logical side of) metaphysics, but he also has working interests in the philosophies of language and of logic, philosophy of mathematics, and epistemology. His publications are in these areas, with a slant towards philosophical logic and philosophy of logic. Beall is currently beginning work in the philosophy of time (particularly from a paraconsistent perspective).

Teaching

PHIL 323: Metaphysical Questions

Recent Books

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Spandrels of Truth (Oxford University Press), 2009.

Revenge of the Liar, editor (Oxford University Press), 2008.

Logical Pluralism (Oxford University Press), with Greg Restall, 2006.

Logic: The Basics (Oxford: Routledge), 2010.

Possibilities and Paradox: An Introduction to Modal and Many-Valued Logic (Oxford: OUP), with Bas van Fraassen, 2003.

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