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Nuel Belnap, A.R. Anderson Distinguished Professor

Logic, Philosophical Logic, Metaphysics, Philosophy of the Social Sciences

PhD, Yale, 1960

belnap@pitt.edu

Nuel D. Belnap, Jr. is Alan Ross Anderson Distinguished Professor of Philosophy, professor of history and philosophy of science, and fellow of the Center for Philosophy of Science. Before joining the faculty at Pitt in 1963, he taught at Yale. He is co-author (with Thomas B. Steel) of The Logic of Questions and Answers (Yale, 1976), of Entailment: The Logic of Relevance and Necessity (volume 1, with Alan Ross Anderson, 1976; volume 2, with Alan Ross Anderson and J. Michael Dunn, 1992), and (with Anil Gupta) of The Revision Theory of Truth (MIT, 1993), and co-author (with Michael Perloff and Ming Xu) of Facing the Future: Agents and Choices in Our Indeterminist World (Oxford, 2001). He has been a Guggenheim Fellow, an NEH Fellow, and a fellow at the Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences. His present interests lie principally in philosophical logic, with other interests in metaphysics, the philosophy of the social sciences, and computer science.

Select Publications

Facing the Future: Agents and Choices in Our Indeterminist World (with Michael Perloff and Ming Xu), Oxford, 2001.

The Logic of Questions and Answers [with T. Steel]

Entailment: The Logic of Relevance and Necessity [vol. 1 with A. R. Anderson and vol. 2 with A. R. Anderson and J. M. Dunn]

The Revision Theory of Truth [with A. Gupta]

Papers on branching space-times and indeterminism (in philsci.archive.pitt.edu)

Personal Web Page

Carnap's record of the Vienna Circle members' votes about certain important philosophical propositions and how their positions were changed after reading the Tractatus of Wittgenstein. open [+]

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