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  title info:
    title: Topics of thought
    sub title: the logic of knowledge, belief, imagination
  name:
    name part: Berto, Francesco
    role:
      role term: creator
    role:
      role term: author.
  name:
    name part: Oxford University Press
  type of resource: text
  genre: bibliography
  genre: Electronic books.
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: enk
    date issued: 2022
    copyright date: 2022
    edition: First edition.
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    form: remote
    extent: 1 online resource (xi, 226 pages)
  abstract: "This book concerns mental states such as thinking that Obama is tall, imagining that there will be a climate change catastrophe, knowing that one is not a brain in a vat, or believing that Martina Navratilova is the greatest tennis player ever. Such states are usually understood as having intentionality, that is, as being about things or situations to which the mind is directed. The contents of such states are often taken to be propositions. The book presents a new framework for the logic of thought, so understood an answer to the question: Given that one thinks (believes, knows, etc.) something, what else must one think (ditto) as a matter of logic? This should depend on the propositions which make for the contents of the relevant thoughts. And the book defends the idea that propositions should be individuated hyperintensionally, i.e. not just by the sets of worlds at which they are true (as in standard intensional possible worlds semantics), but also by what they are about: their topic or subject matter. Thus, the logic of thought should be topic-sensitive. After the philosophical foundations have been presented in Chapters 1&2, Chapter 3 develops a theory of Topic-Sensitive Intentional Modals (TSIMs): modal operators representing attitude ascriptions, which embed a topicality or subject matter constraint. Subsequent chapters explore applications ranging from mainstream epistemology (dogmatism, scepticism, fallibilism: Chapter 4), to the nature of suppositional thinking and imagination (Chapter 5), conditional belief and belief revision (Chapter 6), framing effects (Chapter 7), probabilities and indicative conditionals (Chapter 8)"--Publisher's description.
  note: Francesco Berto.
  note: Includes bibliographical references (pages 194-217) and index.
  subject:
    topic: Knowledge, Theory of
  subject:
    topic: Logic
  subject:
    topic: Théorie de la connaissance
  subject:
    topic: epistemology
  subject:
    topic: Knowledge, Theory of
  subject:
    topic: Logic
  classification: BD161 .B47 2022
  classification: 121
  related item:
    title info:
      title: Topics of thought
    name:
      name part: Berto, Francesco.
    origin info:
      publisher: Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2022
      edition: First edition.
    identifier: (DLC) 2022934444
    identifier: (OCoLC)1338682665
  identifier: 9780191948275
  identifier: 0191948276
  identifier: 9780192857491
  identifier: 0192857495
  identifier: https://academic.oup.com/book/44119
  record info:
    record content source: UIU
    record creation date: 221101
    record change date: 20240201202359.3
    record identifier: in00004770086
    language of cataloging:
      language term: eng