Prof Franz Berto

Prof Franz Berto

Professor of Logic and Metaphysics

Researcher profile

Phone
+44 (0)1334 46 2415
Email
fb96@st-andrews.ac.uk

 

Biography

Franz works on logic, ontology, formal epistemology, the philosophy of language, the philosophy of computation. He joined the Department 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, where he has taught at the Master in Science of Logic. 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. His research has been funded by the British Research Council, the European Research Council, and the Leverhulme Trust. Franz is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh and currently serves as the editor-in-chief of The Philosophical Quarterly.

Research areas

Logic: non-classical logics; non-normal modal logics; logical paradoxes.
Metaphysics:  meta-ontology and the methodology of ontology; theories of existence; modal metaphysics.
Epistemology: belief revision; epistemic logic; imagination and suppositional thinking; modal epistemology.
Philosophy of language: formal semantics; theories of propositional content; hyperintensional semantics.
Philosophy of computation: non-standard and parallel computation; cellular automata.

PhD supervision

  • Andrea Oliani
  • Matteo Nizzardo
  • Camille Fouche
  • Giulia Schirripa
  • Hugh Reilly
  • Sophie Nagler
  • Francisca Silva
  • Thomas Randriamahazaka
  • Matthew Green

Selected publications

  • Open access

    Topics of thought: the logic of knowledge, belief, imagination

    Berto, F., 25 Aug 2022, Oxford: Oxford University Press. 229 p. (Oxford scholarship online)

    Research output: Book/ReportBook

  • Open access

    Impossible worlds

    Berto, F. & Jago, M., 13 Jun 2019, Oxford; New York: Oxford University Press. 336 p.

    Research output: Book/ReportBook

  • Open access

    Logic will get you from A to B, imagination will take you anywhere

    Berto, F., 2023, In: Noûs. Early View, 13 p.

    Research output: Contribution to journalArticlepeer-review

  • Open access

    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 journalArticlepeer-review

  • Open access

    Cognitive synonymy: a dead parrot?

    Berto, F. & Hornischer, L., 1 Sept 2023, In: Philosophical Studies. 180, p. 2727-2752 26 p.

    Research output: Contribution to journalArticlepeer-review

  • Open access

    Indicative conditionals: probabilities and relevance

    Berto, F. & Özgün, A., 19 Apr 2021, In: Philosophical Studies. First Online, 34 p.

    Research output: Contribution to journalArticlepeer-review

  • Open access

    Aboutness in imagination

    Berto, F., Aug 2018, In: Philosophical Studies. 175, 8, p. 1871-1886 16 p.

    Research output: Contribution to journalArticlepeer-review

  • A modality called 'negation'

    Berto, F., Jul 2015, In: Mind. 124, 495, p. 761-793 33 p.

    Research output: Contribution to journalArticlepeer-review

  • Open access

    Negation on the Australian Plan

    Berto, F. & Restall, G., 22 Apr 2019, (E-pub ahead of print) In: Journal of Philosophical Logic. In press

    Research output: Contribution to journalArticlepeer-review

  • Open access

    The logic of framing effects

    Berto, F. & Özgün, A., Jun 2023, In: Journal of Philosophical Logic. 52, 3, p. 939-952 24 p.

    Research output: Contribution to journalArticlepeer-review

 

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