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    $\begingroup$ These are called Boolean topoi. The topoi of presheaves are typically not Boolean. Exception: presheaves on groupoids. The topos of sheaves on a topological space is Boolean if and only if its T_0-fication is a discrete space. $\endgroup$
    – Arshak Aivazian
    Commented Jun 18 at 21:18
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    $\begingroup$ These are exactly the Boolean topoi, see for instance MacLane–Moerdijk, Chapter VI, §1, Proposition 1 and equation (15) in Chapter VI, §6. Since this is a property of the lattice of opens, it only depends on the 0-localic reflection (I suspect the same should be true for $\infty$-topoi, but I don't know the 'logic' interpretation of higher topoi that well). $\endgroup$
    – R. van Dobben de Bruyn
    Commented Jun 18 at 21:21
  • $\begingroup$ Also, geometric gros topoi are not Boolean (if there were an excluded middle, then mappings of spaces could be defined piecewise: on a subspace cut out by some condition and its complement) $\endgroup$
    – Arshak Aivazian
    Commented Jun 18 at 21:24
  • $\begingroup$ I am confused, I thought that by HoTT 3.2.2. no ∞-topos satisfy LEM. $\endgroup$
    – Nikola Tomić
    Commented Jun 19 at 9:36
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    $\begingroup$ @NikolaTomić 3.2.2 disproves $\mathsf{LEM}_\infty$, but the proper version in section 3.4, which concerns only propositions, is consistent. $\endgroup$
    – Naïm Favier
    Commented Jun 19 at 9:39