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Prof Franz Berto

Professor of Logic and Metaphysics

Phone

+44 (0)1334 46 2415

Email

fb96@st-andrews.ac.uk

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Biography

Franz works on logic, ontology, formal epistemology, the philosophy of language, the philosophy of computation. He joined the Department and the Arché Research CentreÌýat the University of ºÚÁϳԹÏÍø in 2018, and he also works at the (ILLC), University of Amsterdam, where he has taught at the . Before this, he was at the , at the , at the in Paris, at the Universities of Padua, Venice and Milan-San Raffaele in Italy. His research has been funded by the , the , and the Franz is a and currently serves as the editor-in-chief of .

Research areas

Logic: non-classical logics; non-normal modal logics; logical paradoxes.
Metaphysics:Ìý 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

• MartaÌýCampa
• AlbertoÌýCarrascon
• CamilleÌýFouche
• MatthewÌýGreen
• Pak HimÌýLai
• SophieÌýNagler
• HughÌýReilly
• GiuliaÌýSchirripa
• HarryÌýVincent
• EliasÌýYuan

Selected publications

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

  Research output: Book/Report › Book

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

  Research output: Book/Report › Book

• Open access
  Berto, F., Sept 2024, In: ±·´Çû²õ. 58, 3, p. 717-729 13 p.

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

• Open access
  Hornischer, L. & Berto, F., 28 May 2025, (E-pub ahead of print) In: Mind. Advance articles, fzaf012.

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

• Berto, F. & Özgün, A., 10 Jul 2024, (Accepted/In press) In: Journal of Philosophy.

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

• Open access
  Berto, F. & Hawke, P., Jan 2021, In: Mind. 130, 517, p. 1-33 33 p.

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

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

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

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

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

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

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

• Open access
  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

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