Shawn Standefer

Bio

I am an Assistant Professor of Philosophy at NCSU. I got my PhD from the University of Pittsburgh in 2013. Before coming to NCSU, I was an Assistant Professor of Philosophy at National Taiwan University. Before that, I was a postdoc at the University of Melbourne.

I am the advisor for the Logic and Methodology minor.

In 2024, I was awarded the Ta-You Wu Memorial Prize for excellent early career researchers by the National Science and Technology Council of Taiwan. I was awarded a Global Fellowship by the University of St Andrews for the academic year 2024-2025.

Area(s) of Expertise

My main research area is philosophical logic. I focus on non-classical logics, and I'm particularly interested in relevant logics. I also work in modal logic, proof theory, and paradoxes.

Publications

• Failures of $$\gamma $$ , Studia Logica (2025)
• Should atheists be worried about modal Calvinist epistemology? , Religious Studies (2025)
• Symmetry and Completeness in Relevant Epistemic Logic , Journal of Philosophical Logic (2025)
• Routes to relevance: Philosophies of relevant logics , Philosophy Compass (2024)
• Getting some (non-classical) closure with justification logic , Asian Journal of Philosophy (2023)
• A Substructural Approach to Explicit Modal Logic , Journal of Logic, Language and Information (2022)
• COLLECTION FRAMES FOR DISTRIBUTIVE SUBSTRUCTURAL LOGICS , The Review of Symbolic Logic (2022)
• Varieties of Relevant S5 , Logic and Logical Philosophy (2022)
• Weak relevant justification logics , Journal of Logic and Computation (2022)
• What is a Relevant Connective? , Journal of Philosophical Logic (2022)

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