Prof Franz Berto
Professor of Logic and Metaphysics
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
- Matthew Green
- Francisca Silva
- Hugh Reilly
- Giulia Schirripa
- Pak Him Lai
- Sophie Nagler
- Alberto Carrascon
- Camille Fouche
Selected publications
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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/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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Logic will get you from A to B, imagination will take you anywhere
Berto, F., Sept 2024, In: Noûs. 58, 3, p. 717-729 13 p.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
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Knowability relative to information
Berto, F. & Hawke, P., Jan 2021, In: Mind. 130, 517, p. 1-33 33 p.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
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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 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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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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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
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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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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 journal › Article › peer-review