Philosophy Research: Recent submissions

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    • Simple hyperintensional belief revision 

      Berto, F. (2018-02-05) - Journal article
      I present a possible worlds semantics for a hyperintensional belief revision operator, which reduces the logical idealization of cognitive agents affecting similar operators in doxastic and epistemic logics, as well as in ...

    • Conceivability and possibility : some dilemmas for Humeans 

      Berto, Francesco; Schoonen, Tom (2018-06) - Journal article
      The Humean view that conceivability entails possibility can be criticized via input from cognitive psychology. A mainstream view here has it that there are two candidate codings for mental representations (one of them ...

    • Taming the runabout imagination ticket 

      Berto, Francesco (2018-03-13) - Journal article
      The ‘puzzle of imaginative use’ (Kind and Kung in Knowledge through imagination, Oxford University Press, Oxford, 2016) asks: given that imagination is arbitrary escape from reality, how can it have any epistemic value? ...

    • There’s plenty of Boole at the bottom : a reversible CA against information entropy 

      Berto, Francesco; Tagliabue, Jacopo; Rossi, Gabriele (2016-12) - Journal article
      “There’s Plenty of Room at the Bottom”, said the title of Richard Feynman’s 1959 seminal conference at the California Institute of Technology. Fifty years on, nanotechnologies have led computer scientists to pay close ...

    • Truth in fiction, impossible worlds, and belief revision 

      Badura, Christopher; Berto, Francesco (2018-02-27) - Journal article
      We present a theory of truth in fiction that improves on Lewis's [1978] ‘Analysis 2’ in two ways. First, we expand Lewis's possible worlds apparatus by adding non-normal or impossible worlds. Second, we model truth in ...