Nuel Belnap taught at the University of Pittsburgh from 1963 until his retirement in 2011.
15 Facts About Nuel Belnap
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Nuel Belnap attended New Trier High School in Winnetka, Illinois, and earned a Bachelor of Arts degree from the University of Illinois.
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Nuel Belnap enjoyed metaphysics, and his professors included Paul Weiss, Arthur Pap, Henry Margenau, Frederic Fitch, and Rulon Wells.
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Feys directed Nuel Belnap to read Wilhelm Ackermann's article on rigorous implication in the Journal of Symbolic Logic.
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Alan Ross Anderson and Nuel Belnap began to discuss relevant implication.
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In 1960 Anderson told Nuel Belnap to write up the work he had done on relevance logic, and this was Nuel Belnap's PhD dissertation at Yale.
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Nuel Belnap recalled hiring Jon Barwise and John Wallace as research assistants.
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Anderson and Nuel Belnap were co-authors of Entailment: The Logic of Relevance and Necessity.
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Nuel Belnap began to teach philosophy of social sciences, with students including Bas van Fraassen and Jon Michael Dunn.
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Nuel Belnap recalled Rich Tomason, student of intelligent systems, passing through Pitt.
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On sabbatical, Nuel Belnap was visiting professor at the University of California, Irvine and at Indiana University Bloomington, in the falls of 1977,1978,1979 with Jon Michael Dunn.
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Nuel Belnap was a founding member of the Society for Exact Philosophy, which collaborated with Canadians such as Mario Bunge.
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Nuel Belnap was elected a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 2008.
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Nuel Belnap had three sons and a daughter with his first wife, Joan Gohde Nuel Belnap.
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Nuel Belnap died in Whitefield, New Hampshire on June 12,2024, at the age of 94.