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 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 [in progress].)
Philosophy of computation: non-standard and parallel computation. (See, e.g., Cellular Automata.)
PhD supervision
- Andrea Oliani
- Frederik Andersen
- Matteo Nizzardo
- Camille Fouche
- Matthew Green
- Jarred Snodgrass
Selected publications
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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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The logic of fast and slow thinking
Solaki, A., Berto, F. & Smets, S., 1 Jun 2019, In : Erkenntnis. In pressResearch output: Contribution to journal ? Article
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Negation on the Australian Plan
Berto, F. & Restall, G., 22 Apr 2019, In : Journal of Philosophical Logic. In pressResearch output: Contribution to journal ? Article
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Knowability relative to information
Berto, F. & Hawke, P., 25 Oct 2018, In : Mind. Advance articles, fzy045.Research output: Contribution to journal ? Article
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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
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Williamson on counterpossibles
Berto, F., French, R., Priest, G. & Ripley, D., Aug 2018, In : Journal of Philosophical Logic. 47, 4, p. 693-713 21 p.Research output: Contribution to journal ? Article
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Conceivability and possibility: some dilemmas for Humeans
Berto, F. & Schoonen, T., Jun 2018, In : Synthese. 195, 6, p. 2697-2715 19 p.Research output: Contribution to journal ? Article
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Truth in fiction, impossible worlds, and belief revision
Badura, C. & Berto, F., 27 Feb 2018, In : Australasian Journal of Philosophy. Latest Articles, 16 p.Research output: Contribution to journal ? Article
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Simple hyperintensional belief revision
Berto, F., 5 Feb 2018, In : Erkenntnis. First Online, 17 p.Research output: Contribution to journal ? Article
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Impossible worlds and the logic of imagination
Berto, F., Dec 2017, In : Erkenntnis. 82, 6, p. 1277-1297 21 p.Research output: Contribution to journal ? Article