Topics of Thought: The Logic of Knowledge, Belief, Imagination by Berto, Francesco

Topics of Thought: The Logic of Knowledge, Belief, Imagination (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9780192857491)

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Topics of Thought: The Logic of Knowledge, Belief, Imagination by Berto, Francesco

Topics of Thought: The Logic of Knowledge, Belief, Imagination

$80.00
Topics of Thought: The Logic of Knowledge, Belief, Imagination by Berto, Francesco

Topics of Thought: The Logic of Knowledge, Belief, Imagination

$80.00
Format: Hardcover
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This is an open access title available under the terms of a CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 International licence. It is free to read at Oxford Scholarship Online and offered as a free PDF download from OUP and selected open access locations.

When one thinks--knows, believes, imagines--that something is the case, one's thought has a topic: it is about something, towards which one's mind is directed. What is the logic of thought, so understood? This book begins to explore the idea that, to answer the question, we should take topics seriously. It proposes a hyperintensional account of the propositional contents of thought, arguing that these are individuated not only by the set of possible worlds at which they are true, but also by their topic: what they are about. The book then builds epistemic, doxastic, probabilistic, and conditional logics based on this view. It applies them to issues ranging from dogmatism, scepticism, and epistemic fallibilism, to imagination and suppositional reasoning, belief revision, framing effects, and the acceptability of indicative conditionals.

Author: Francesco Berto
ISBN-10: 0192857495
ISBN-13: 9780192857491
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Language: English
Published: 11/25/2022
Pages: 241
Format: Hardcover
Weight: 0.94lbs
Size: 8.60h x 5.70w x 0.72d

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By Francesco Berto
By Francesco Berto
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Francesco Berto, Chair of Logic and Metaphysics, Department of Philosophy and Arché Research Centre, University of St Andrews

Francesco Berto is Chair of Logic and Metaphysics at the Department of Philosophy and the Arché Research Centre at the University of St Andrews, and also works at the Institute for Logic, Language and Computation (ILLC) of the University of Amsterdam. He has worked at the Universities of Notre Dame, Aberdeen, Venice, Padua, Milan-San Raffaele, Lugano, and at the Sorbonne-Ecole Normale Supérieure in Paris. He writes on ontology, logic, epistemology, and the philosophy of computation. He is the editor-in-chief of The Philosophical Quarterly.

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