Franz Berto

Talking of logic & framing effects in two days in Milan -- alas, online only:

luci.unimi.it/workshop-log...

So I'm getting a contract from Oxford UP for an upcoming book, provisionally called:

Imagine
The Formal Epistemology of Counterfactual Thought

It's surprising that I got away with such a title (thanks to lenient referees). So I'll be wearing Lennon-style glasses.

You don't need proof when you have emojis.

Paper .pdf downloadable OA here:

critica.filosoficas.unam.mx/index.php/cr...

'Impossible Worlds are Here to Stay' is out! Link below. 2K-word critical commentaries on it can be submitted to Crítica Editor Santiago Echeverri(santiago.echeverri@filosoficas.unam.mx) by July 31.
There'll be invited commentaries by Kit Fine, Katalin Bimbó, Steve Yablo, Koji Tanaka, Zeynep Soysal.

The updated SEP entry on #Hyperintensionality is online!
As the topic has exploded in recent years, might be Daniel and I haven't managed to mention YOUR stuff. Don't be upset: rest assured we've mentioned something intensionally equivalent to that. 😎

plato.stanford.edu/entries/hype...

Spread the word! The Philosophical Quarterly is celebrating the philosopher philosophers love: 'Themes from David Lewis's Metaphysics' will be our next Special Issue, call for papers here:

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@oupphilosophy.bsky.social @standrewsphil.bsky.social

World Logic Day 14 January

It's World #Logic Day and this year, too, I plan to make valid inferences all day, while ignoring what I'm talking about and whether what I say is true. 🙂

www.unesco.org/en/days/worl...

Must sometimes brag about PhDs I've supervised... Here's Levin with an impossibility result concerning AI safety, obtained *just by logic*:

link.springer.com/article/10.1...

Here's Francisca using topic-neutrality as the mark of logical vocabulary:

link.springer.com/article/10.1...

Little paper 'Saying the Same Thing' is out in Erkenntnis, Open Access here:

link.springer.com/article/10.1...

Franz Berto on modal realism, imagination and reading the Tractatus I EP 3 YouTube video by Ping Pong Philosophy

Pablo of @pingpongphilosophy.bsky.social interviews me for his podcast and I reveal who my favourite living philosopher is (I see y'all on the edge of your seat):

www.youtube.com/watch?v=4KdK...

Paper forthcoming in Erkenntnis, preprint here:

philpapers.org/archive/BERS...

Take that, Alan!

At @standrewsphil.bsky.social we have now appointed -- hold your hats -- Jennifer Saul, Amie Thomasson, and Stephen Gardiner as Professorial Fellows:

www.st-andrews.ac.uk/philosophy/n...

PFs have part-time appointments to carry out research with us, participate in conferences, supervise PhDs.

Spread the word! The Philosophical Quarterly is celebrating the philosopher philosophers love: 'Themes from David Lewis's Metaphysics' will be our next Special Issue, call for papers here:

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Forthcoming in Ergo, why we should ditch Williamson's 'heuristics' for counterfactuals:

philpapers.org/archive/BERT...

Thx to the editors for the smooth processing: your online submission system is cool!

@standrewsphil.bsky.social

'Killed by poisoned vegan haggis.'

So currently our paper is the 2nd most read in Mind. This'd be all good and well, if we hadn't been beaten by... Some bloke's 75 year old stuff. 😎

academic.oup.com/mind/advance...

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The third 2025 issue of The Philosophical Quarterly is out!

academic.oup.com/pq/issue/75/3

@standrewsphil.bsky.social

We have *three* new lecturers joining the castle -- ehm, the department @standrewsphil.bsky.social : Alice Murphy @alicemurphs.bsky.social, Matthew Vermaire, Nick Wiltsher @nickwiltsher.bsky.social. Welcome folks!

www.st-andrews.ac.uk/philosophy/n...

(The Dr. Strangelove reference, of course, is actually to @consequently.bsky.social :
consequently.org/writing/negrl/ )

'The Logic of Dynamical Systems Is Relevant' is out!
(Or, How I Stopped Worrying and Learned to Love Relevant Logic Again.)
Download here, Open Access of course:

academic.oup.com/mind/advance...

@levinhornischer.bsky.social @standrewsphil.bsky.social

@bweatherson.bsky.social @carriejenkins.net can you pm me email addresses of yours we can use to add you as online attenders? (No commitment of course)

Will have Walter add your abdn email for online attendance

Will ask the organizers and let you know!

Philosophers: spread the word! Starting May 27, Arché celebrates its founder in a three-day Crispin Wright conference. Like anyone who knows what Crispin has meant for this place, I am so happy that this is happening. Programme here:

www.st-andrews.ac.uk/arche/event/...

@standrewsphil.bsky.social

Coming up on 10 June: the finals of The Ethics Cup, an ethics debating tournament hosted by our department that emphasises substance over style and tries to inculcate important civic virtues like intellectual humility, civility and tolerance.
ethicscup.wp.st-andrews.ac.uk
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Alzheimer's: To Test or Not to Test - Edinburgh Science Soon it will be possible to diagnose health conditions such as Alzheimer’s years ahead of time. But would you want to know?

Get your ticket! Our own Ben Sachs-Cobbe has put together an exciting event for the 2025 Edinburgh Science Festival, covering the ethical pros and cons of asymptomatic testing for Alzheimer’s biomarkers.
www.edinburghscience.co.uk/event/alzhei...
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Call for Papers: Themes From David Lewis’s Metaphysics Guest Editor:  Prof. Jonathan Tallant (Nottingham) Deadline for Submissions: June 30, 2026 Scope 2026 marks forty years since the publication of David L

Metaphysicians: spread the word! The Philosophical Quarterly is celebrating the philosopher philosophers love: 'Themes from David Lewis's Metaphysics' will be our next Special Issue, Guest Editor Jonathan Tallant, call for papers here:

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