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.

"Philosophy is buzzing again with interest in conceptions of thought and content more fine-grained than those of traditional intensional semantics. For anyone who wants to know what the buzz is all about, this superb new book by one of the foremost proponents of the hyperintensional movement is quite simply a must-read." - Hannes Leitgeb, Professor of Philosophy, LMU Munich

"This wonderful book brings formal semantics and epistemology together, placing topic-sensitivity at the center of the logic of thought. Franz Berto takes the reader on a journey, starting from such a key idea and exploring it step by step to uncover new territory." - Sonja Smets, Professor of Logic and Epistemology, University of Amsterdam

"Equipped with a simple notion of subject matter, Berto guides us through areas where logic normally fears to tread: imagination, intentionality, hypothesis-development, framing effects, epistemic fallibility, and awareness. A spectacularly good book. Did I mention omniscience, belief revision, and conditionals? Topic shines its light on them, too. You must absolutely read it." - Stephen Yablo, David W. Skinner Professor of Philosophy, Massachusetts Institute of Technology