Franz Berto

Take that, Alan!

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

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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:

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

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'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. 😎

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The third 2025 issue of The Philosophical Quarterly is out!

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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!

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(The Dr. Strangelove reference, of course, is actually to @consequently.bsky.social :
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'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:

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@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:

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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.
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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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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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Philosophers: 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.

Cover of The Philosophical Quarterly, 2/2025

The second 2025 issue of The Philosophical Quarterly is out!

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St Andrews Philosophy is on Bluesky!

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Follow us to know what happens in the place with (as legend has it) the highest density of philosophers in the world. :-)

Philosophers: spread the word, apply, come to St Andrews, have research fun with us!

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Look at the Arché Metaphysical Indeterminacy Conference! June 17-18, 2025. Info here:

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Perhaps most importantly -- get the book for free here:

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Topics of Thought: The Logic of Knowledge, Belief, Imagination Franz Berto’s Topics of Thought is a wide-ranging and informative read, exploring with thoroughness and technical sophistication the logic of stat...

Justin Khoo reviews 'Topics' - NDPR:

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Yeah we'll have the ad there -- as soon as our HR manages :-)

Philosophers: 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:

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Forthcoming 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:
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Spread the word! Another postdoc job in St Andrews-Arché, in the @leverhulme.bsky.social-funded WIKI project! Apply from here:

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Looking for a specialist of logic and/or the psychology of reasoning, ideally with expertise in hypothetical thought.