Franz Berto @franzberto.bsky.social · 25/09/2026Forthcoming in the 'Review of Philosophy and Psychology' -- where Greg and I show how a little logic goes a long way in the psychology of reasoning: philpapers.org/archive/BERR... 061
Reposted by Franz BertoUniversity of St Andrews @uniofstandrews.bsky.social · 18/09/2026The University of St Andrews has been named the UK's best university in The Sunday Times Good University Guide 2027. 🥇 Read more: ow.ly/juwA50ZP0ic #EverToExcel 0198
Reposted by Franz BertoFranz Berto @franzberto.bsky.social · 31/07/2026Philosophers, spread the word! The next Special Issue of The Philosophical Quarterly will be 'Philosophy and Climate Change' - Guest Editor Stephen Gardiner, call for papers here: academic.oup.com/pq/pages/cal... 16437
Franz Berto @franzberto.bsky.social · 31/07/2026Philosophers, spread the word! The next Special Issue of The Philosophical Quarterly will be 'Philosophy and Climate Change' - Guest Editor Stephen Gardiner, call for papers here: academic.oup.com/pq/pages/cal... 16437
Franz Berto @franzberto.bsky.social · 04/07/2026Forthcoming in the Review of Symbolic Logic -- it was good fun, co-authoring with Soroush: philpapers.org/archive/BERD... 092
Franz Berto @franzberto.bsky.social · 16/06/2026The third 2026 issue of The Philosophical Quarterly is out! academic.oup.com/pq/issue/76/3 1102
Franz Berto @franzberto.bsky.social · 03/05/2026The second 2026 issue of The Philosophical Quarterly is out! academic.oup.com/pq/issue/76/2academic.oup.comVolume 76 Issue 2 | The Philosophical Quarterly | Oxford AcademicThe official journal of the Scots Philosophical Association and the University of St. Andrews. Publishes high-quality articles from leading international scholars across the range of philosophical stu... 053
Franz Berto @franzberto.bsky.social · 28/04/2026Katherine died five years ago. In 2023 PQ put together a special issue on her philosophy. katherinehawley.wp.st-andrews.ac.uk academic.oup.com/pq/issue/73/3 0238
Reposted by Franz BertoFranz Berto @franzberto.bsky.social · 30/06/2025Spread 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: academic.oup.com/pq/pages/cal... @oupphilosophy.bsky.social @standrewsphil.bsky.social 02615
Reposted by Franz BertoPetronella Randell @petronellarandell.bsky.social · 06/04/2026If you thought this sounded cool, register to attend either in-person or online! Schedule here: www.st-andrews.ac.uk/arche/event/... Register here: forms.cloud.microsoft/e/q4DhBX3K30 @standrewsphil.bsky.socialphilevents.orgImagination DayA one-day workshop on the philosophy of imagination, addressing such questions as: What is the epistemic role of imagination? How does it work in our engagement with fiction and in thought experiments... 013
Franz Berto @franzberto.bsky.social · 10/03/2026@standrewsphil.bsky.social is becoming the imagination hub -- happening in May, feat. Amy Kind, Nick Wiltsher, Alice Murphy, Mike Stuart, Justin D'Ambrosio , William D'Alessandro, Petronella Randell: www.st-andrews.ac.uk/arche/event/... 163
Franz Berto @franzberto.bsky.social · 24/02/2026Talking of logic & framing effects in two days in Milan -- alas, online only: luci.unimi.it/workshop-log... 031
Franz Berto @franzberto.bsky.social · 03/02/2026So 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. 070
Franz Berto @franzberto.bsky.social · 21/01/2026'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. 251
Franz Berto @franzberto.bsky.social · 16/01/2026The 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...plato.stanford.edu Hyperintensionality (Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy) 0167
Franz Berto @franzberto.bsky.social · 14/01/2026It'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...unesco.orgWorld Logic Day14 January 13610
Franz Berto @franzberto.bsky.social · 08/01/2026Must 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... 050
Franz Berto @franzberto.bsky.social · 19/11/2025Little paper 'Saying the Same Thing' is out in Erkenntnis, Open Access here: link.springer.com/article/10.1... 042
Franz Berto @franzberto.bsky.social · 22/10/2025Pablo 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...youtube.comFranz Berto on modal realism, imagination and reading the Tractatus I EP 3YouTube video by Ping Pong Philosophy 061
Franz Berto @franzberto.bsky.social · 06/09/2025Paper forthcoming in Erkenntnis, preprint here: philpapers.org/archive/BERS... 0132
Franz Berto @franzberto.bsky.social · 09/07/2025At @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. 0134
Franz Berto @franzberto.bsky.social · 30/06/2025Spread 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: academic.oup.com/pq/pages/cal... @oupphilosophy.bsky.social @standrewsphil.bsky.social 02615
Franz Berto @franzberto.bsky.social · 29/06/2025Forthcoming 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 090
Franz Berto @franzberto.bsky.social · 26/06/2025So 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... @levinhornischer.bsky.social @standrewsphil.bsky.social @oupphilosophy.bsky.social 271
Franz Berto @franzberto.bsky.social · 25/06/2025The third 2025 issue of The Philosophical Quarterly is out! academic.oup.com/pq/issue/75/3 @standrewsphil.bsky.social 080
Franz Berto @franzberto.bsky.social · 20/06/2025We 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... 091
Franz Berto @franzberto.bsky.social · 28/05/2025'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 272
Franz Berto @franzberto.bsky.social · 13/05/2025Philosophers: 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 2266
Reposted by Franz BertoSt Andrews Philosophy @standrewsphil.bsky.social · 29/03/2025Coming 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 #philosophymattersethicscup.wp.st-andrews.ac.ukThe Ethics Cup – University of St Andrews Centre for Ethics, Philosophy and Public AffairsLikeCommentRepostShareLikeCommentRepostShareLikeCommentRepostShareLikeCommentRepostShareLikeCommentRepostShare 061
Reposted by Franz BertoSt Andrews Philosophy @standrewsphil.bsky.social · 30/03/2025Get 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... #philosophymattersedinburghscience.co.ukAlzheimer's: To Test or Not to Test - Edinburgh ScienceSoon it will be possible to diagnose health conditions such as Alzheimer’s years ahead of time. But would you want to know? 021
Reposted by Franz BertoFranz Berto @franzberto.bsky.social · 23/04/2025Metaphysicians: 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: academic.oup.com/pq/pages/cal...academic.oup.comCall for Papers: Themes From David Lewis’s MetaphysicsGuest Editor: Prof. Jonathan Tallant (Nottingham) Deadline for Submissions: June 30, 2026 Scope 2026 marks forty years since the publication of David L 11710
Franz Berto @franzberto.bsky.social · 23/04/2025Metaphysicians: 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: academic.oup.com/pq/pages/cal...academic.oup.comCall for Papers: Themes From David Lewis’s MetaphysicsGuest Editor: Prof. Jonathan Tallant (Nottingham) Deadline for Submissions: June 30, 2026 Scope 2026 marks forty years since the publication of David L 11710
Franz Berto @franzberto.bsky.social · 21/04/2025Philosophers: spread the word!! Full-time research postdoc, 3 year job in St Andrews-Arché within the Leverhulme-funded WIKI project: www.vacancies.st-andrews.ac.uk/Vacancies/W/... Apply by clicking the link above, *check* the Further Particulars attachment there for details. Deadline: May 2. 24634
Franz Berto @franzberto.bsky.social · 31/03/2025The second 2025 issue of The Philosophical Quarterly is out! academic.oup.com/pq/issue/75/2 @standrewsphil.bsky.social 053
Franz Berto @franzberto.bsky.social · 14/03/2025St Andrews Philosophy is on Bluesky! @standrewsphil.bsky.social Follow us to know what happens in the place with (as legend has it) the highest density of philosophers in the world. :-) 0383
Franz Berto @franzberto.bsky.social · 03/03/2025Philosophers: spread the word, apply, come to St Andrews, have research fun with us! philjobs.org/job/show/28814philjobs.org Research Fellow, University of St. Andrews - PhilJobs:JFP Research Fellow, University of St. Andrews An international database of jobs for philosophers 24731
Franz Berto @franzberto.bsky.social · 26/02/2025Look at the Arché Metaphysical Indeterminacy Conference! June 17-18, 2025. Info here: www.st-andrews.ac.uk/arche/event/... 030
Franz Berto @franzberto.bsky.social · 11/02/2025Justin Khoo reviews 'Topics' - NDPR: ndpr.nd.edu/reviews/topi...ndpr.nd.eduTopics of Thought: The Logic of Knowledge, Belief, ImaginationFranz Berto’s Topics of Thought is a wide-ranging and informative read, exploring with thoroughness and technical sophistication the logic of stat... 120
Franz Berto @franzberto.bsky.social · 10/02/2025Philosophers: spread the word! We'll have a special issue of The Philosophical Quarterly on *The Philosophy of Uncertainty*. Guest Editor Richard Pettigrew @wiglet1981.bsky.social -- who also came up with The cool cover pic. Call for papers here: academic.oup.com/pq/pages/spe... 04614
Franz Berto @franzberto.bsky.social · 29/01/2025Forthcoming in Mind: 'The Logic of Dynamical Systems Is Relevant' - with @levinhornischer.bsky.social Our only excuse to come up with yet another interpretation for the Routley-Meyer semantics, is that we finally nailed it! (Not that I'm partial). 🙂 Preprint here: philpapers.org/rec/HORTLO-15 090
Franz Berto @franzberto.bsky.social · 27/01/2025Spread the word! Another postdoc job in St Andrews-Arché, in the @leverhulme.bsky.social-funded WIKI project! Apply from here: www.vacancies.st-andrews.ac.uk/Vacancies/W/... Looking for a specialist of logic and/or the psychology of reasoning, ideally with expertise in hypothetical thought. 13516
Franz Berto @franzberto.bsky.social · 15/01/2025Y'all know Mary the Colour Scientist, right? That's because in 1982 The Philosophical Quarterly published 'Epiphenomenal Qualia', featuring Frank Jackson's legendary thought experiment. We've put together an Open Access VI of PQ, celebrating Frank Jackson's work: academic.oup.com/pq/pages/mar...academic.oup.comMary the Colour Scientist 35323
Franz Berto @franzberto.bsky.social · 02/01/2025Leverhulme-funded WIKI project on the logic of counterfactual thought begins today, will last 4 years: www.st-andrews.ac.uk/arche/projec... We've hired Soroush Rafiee Rad as first postdoc www.rafieerad.org/index.html , while Ale Rossi will help with my teaching and share research fun with us. 0256
Franz Berto @franzberto.bsky.social · 26/12/2024Metaphysicians, spread the word! Aaron is looking for a postdoc within his biggish Unity project. Apply, come to Arché, have research fun with us! Details and info on how to apply here: www.vacancies.st-andrews.ac.uk/Vacancies/W/... 083
Franz Berto @franzberto.bsky.social · 29/11/2024It's Beginning to Look a Lot Like -- the 1st 2025 issue of The Philosophical Quarterly is out already: academic.oup.com/pq/issue/75/1academic.oup.comVolume 75 Issue 1 | The Philosophical Quarterly | Oxford AcademicThe official journal of the Scots Philosophical Association and the University of St. Andrews. Publishes high-quality articles from leading international scholars across the range of philosophical study. 0161
Franz Berto @franzberto.bsky.social · 11/11/2024Cool, so now I have yet another place where I can post my philosophical nonsense 0142