Prof Franz Berto
Professor of Logic and Metaphysics
Biography
Franz Berto teaches and works on logic, ontology, the philosophy of language, the philosophy of computation. He joined the Department of Philosophy and the Arché Research Centre at the University of St Andrews in 2018, and he also works at the Institute for Logic, Language and Computation (ILLC), University of Amsterdam. Before this, he was at the University of Aberdeen UK, at the Institute for Advanced Study, University of Notre Dame IN-USA, at the Sorbonne-Ecole Normale Supérieure in Paris, at the Universities of Padua, Venice and Milan-San Raffaele in Italy. He currently serves as the editor-in-chief of The Philosophical Quarterly. He loves logical paradoxes, impossible worlds, nonexistent objects, and philosophers who don’t take themselves too seriously.
Research areas
Logic: non-classical (relevant and paraconsistent) logics; non-normal modal and epistemic logics; the logic of suppositional thinking; logical paradoxes; the metaphysics of logic. (See, e.g., Dialetheism.)
Metaphysics: meta-ontology and the methodology of ontology; theories of existence; modal metaphysics. (See, e.g., Impossible Worlds.)
Philosophy of language: formal semantics; theories of propositional content; hyperintensional semantics. (See, e.g., Hyperintensionality.)
Philosophy of computation: non-standard and parallel computation. (See, e.g., Cellular Automata.)
PhD supervision
- Jarred Snodgrass
- Andrea Oliani
- Matteo Nizzardo
- Camille Fouche
- Frederik Andersen
- Sophie Nagler
- Thomas Randriamahazaka
- Christopher Masterman
- Francisca Silva
Selected publications
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Topics of thought: The logic of knowledge, belief, imagination
Berto, F., 25 Aug 2022, Oxford: Oxford University Press. 240 p.Research output: Book/Report › Book
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Impossible worlds
Berto, F. & Jago, M., 13 Jun 2019, Oxford; New York: Oxford University Press. 336 p.Research output: Book/Report › Book
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Knowability relative to information
Berto, F. & Hawke, P., 25 Oct 2018, (E-pub ahead of print) In: Mind. Advance articles, p. 1-33 33 p., fzy045.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
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Negation on the Australian Plan
Berto, F. & Restall, G., 22 Apr 2019, (E-pub ahead of print) In: Journal of Philosophical Logic. In pressResearch output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
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Aboutness in imagination
Berto, F., Aug 2018, In: Philosophical Studies. 175, 8, p. 1871-1886 16 p.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
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Indicative conditionals: probabilities and relevance
Berto, F. & Özgün, A., 19 Apr 2021, In: Philosophical Studies. First Online, 34 p.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
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Truth in fiction, impossible worlds, and belief revision
Badura, C. & Berto, F., 27 Feb 2018, (E-pub ahead of print) In: Australasian Journal of Philosophy. Latest Articles, 16 p.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
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Simple hyperintensional belief revision
Berto, F., 5 Feb 2018, (E-pub ahead of print) In: Erkenntnis. First Online, 17 p.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
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Dynamic hyperintensional belief revision
Özgün, A. & Berto, F., 21 Jul 2020, (E-pub ahead of print) In: The Review of Symbolic Logic. FirstViewResearch output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
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A modality called 'negation'
Berto, F., Jul 2015, In: Mind. 124, 495, p. 761-793 33 p.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review