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Curriculum Vitae FRANCESCO BERTO Updated 07/05/2020 Birth Place: Venice, Italy Professor of Logic and Metaphysics, Department of Philosophy, University of St Andrews Edgecliffe, The Scores, St Andrews, Fife KY16 9AL, United Kingdom [email protected] Research Chair, Institute for Logic, Language and Computation (ILLC), University of Amsterdam Oude Turfmarkt 141, 1012 GC Amsterdam, The Netherlands [email protected] ORCID ID: 0000-0003-3246-657X 1 1. JOBS, POSITIONS, AFFILIATIONS 1.1. November 2020 : Honorary Chair Mercier, Institut Supérieur de Philosophie, Université Catholique de Louvain. 1.2. August 2020 - ___ : Editor-in-chief, The Philosophical Quarterly. 1.3. September 2018 - ___ : Professor of Logic and Metaphysics, Department of Philosophy, University of St Andrews. 1.4. September 2018 - ___ : Part-time Research Chair, Institute for Logic, Language and Computation (ILLC), University of Amsterdam. 1.5. May 2018: Member of the Logicians Liberation League (LLL) as Holder of Hegel’s Spirit http://aal.ltumathstats.com/curios/logicians-liberation-league. 1.6. September 2017 - ____ : Affiliated Member of EIDOS, the research centre in metaphysics, Universities of Geneva and Italian Switzerland. 1.7. September 2018 - January 2019: Research Fellow at the Netherlands Institute for Advanced Study (NIAS) (fellowship offered, but turned down due to the position accepted in St Andrews). 1.8. January 2014 - August 2018: Full Professor and Structural Chair, Institute for Logic, Language and Computation and Department of Philosophy, University of Amsterdam. 1.9. January 2014 - July 2015: AHRC Project Leader, Department of Philosophy, University of Aberdeen. 1.10. August 2012 - January 2014: Senior Lecturer, Department of Philosophy, University of Aberdeen. 1.11. September 2010 - June 2011: Research Fellow at the Notre Dame Institute for Advanced Study, University of Notre Dame USA. 1.12. December 2009 - November 2011: Research Fellow at the Department of Philosophy, Ca’Foscari University of Venice. 1.13. September 2009 - July 2012: Lecturer at the Department of Philosophy, University of Aberdeen, and member of the Northern Institute of Philosophy (NIP). 1.14. September - December 2009: Visiting Professor at the Institut Wiener Kreis, University of Vienna (position offered, but turned down due to the lectureship accepted in Aberdeen). 1.15. September 2007 - September 2009: Chaire d’Excellence Fellow in Ontology and Semantics, CNRS / University of Paris 1 - Panthéon Sorbonne / Ecole Normale Supérieure of Paris. Supervisor: Prof. Friederike Moltmann, IHPST (Paris 1/CNRS/ENS). 1.16. June - July 2006: Visiting Scholar at the University of Notre Dame USA. 1.17. June 2004 - May 2006: Postdoctoral Fellow in Theoretical Philosophy, University of Padua, Department of Philosophy. Supervisor: Prof. L. Illetterati. 2. ACADEMIC TITLES, QUALIFICATIONS 2.1. January 2014: University teaching qualification (BKO, “Basiskwalificatie Onderwijs”) in the Netherlands. 2.2. December 2013: Two qualifications as Full Professor (“I fascia”) in Italy: Sections 11/C1 (Theoretical philosophy) and 11/C2 (Logic and Philosophy of Science). 2.3. February 2011: Qualification as Full Professor (“Professeur des Universités”) in France, Section 17 (Philosophie). 2.4. March 2001 - March 2004: Ph.D. in Philosophy, judgment “very positive” (“molto positivo”) and no corrections required, Ca’Foscari University of Venice, Department of Philosophy and Theory of Sciences. Title of the thesis: La dialettica hegeliana come teoria semantica [Hegel’s Dialectics as a Semantic Theory]. Supervisor: Prof. L.V. Tarca. 2.5. “Cultore della materia” (Research Assistant) in Formal Logic (March, 2001), Philosophy of Knowledge (June, 2002) and Theoretical Philosophy (November, 2004), Universities of Padua and Venice. 2.6. January 2002: Advanced Course in Methodologies of Online Learning, SSIS (Interfaculty School of Specialization for High School Professors, Universities of Padua and Venice). 2 2.7. December 1999: Degree in Philosophy, Ca’Foscari University of Venice, with points 110/110, cum laude. Title of the thesis: Severino e la logica dialettica. La dialettica come estensione della logica formale [Severino and Dialectical Logic. Dialectics as an Extension of Formal Logic]. Supervisor: Prof. L.V. Tarca. 3. GRANTS, SCHOLARSHIPS, PRIZES 3.1. 2018-2020 Supervisor, Dr. Thomas Schindler’s Marie Curie Individual Fellowship of € 160,000, for the project “The Logical Function of Property Talk”. 3.2. 2018-2020 Supervisor, Dr. Margot Strohminger’s Marie Curie Individual Fellowship of € 160,000, for the project “Counterfactual Knowledge from the Imagination” (transferred to Oxford, with supervisor Prof. T. Williamson, due to the Chair accepted in St Andrews). 3.3. 2018-19 grant of € 19,000 for the fellowship at the Netherlands Institute for Advanced Study (offered, but turned down). 3.4. 2017 grant of CHF 12,000 for the Professorial Fellowship at the University of Italian Switzerland. 3.5. 2016-2021 PI, ERC Consolidator grant of € 2,000,000, for the project “The Logic of Conceivability”. 3.6. 2013-2015 PI, AHRC Early Career Researcher grant of £ 240,000, for the project “The Metaphysical Basis of Logic: The Law of Non-Contradiction as Basic Knowledge”. 3.7. 2013-2015 PI, Leverhulme Trust grant of £ 114,000, for the project “The Law of Non-Contradiction as Basic Knowledge” (offered, but turned down due to overlap with the AHRC ECR project above). 3.8. 2010 Ca’Foscari Research Prize at the University of Venice, € 10,000. 3.9. 2010-2011 grant of $ 58,000 for the Research Fellowship at the Notre Dame Institute for Advanced Study. 3.10. 2010-2012 grant of € 28,000 for the Research Fellowship at the University of Venice, for the project “The Gödel Paradox and Wittgenstein’s Reasons”. 3.11. 2009 grant of € 8,000 for the visiting professorship at the University of Vienna (offered, but turned down). 3.12. 2007-2009 grant of € 50,000 for the Chaire d’Excellence postdoctoral fellowship in Ontology and Semantics at University of Paris 1-Panthéon Sorbonne/CNRS/Ecole Normale Supérieure, Paris. 3.13. 2007 Castiglioncello Prize for the best philosophical book by a young philosopher with the book Teorie dell’Assurdo [Theories of the Absurd], about € 1,000. 3.14. 2006 grant of about € 3,000 for the visit at the University of Notre Dame. 3.15. 2004-2006 two-year grant of € 21,000 for the two-year postdoctoral fellowship in Theoretical Philosophy at the University of Padua. 3.16. 2001-2004, three year grant of € 33,000 for the Ph.D. in Philosophy at the University of Venice- Ca’Foscari. 4. PUBLICATIONS Google Scholar citation indexes: h-index: 21, i-10 index: 29. http://scholar.google.co.uk/citations?user=8unCUCUAAAAJ&hl=en PhilPeople and Academia profiles: https://philpeople.org/profiles/franz-berto https://francescoberto.academia.edu 4.1. Books In English 4.1.1. Impossible Worlds (with M. Jago), Oxford University Press, Oxford 2019. 4.1.2. Ontology and Metaontology. A Contemporary Guide (with M. Plebani), Bloomsbury, London 2015. 4.1.3. Existence as a Real Property: The Ontology of Meinongianism, Synthese Library, Springer, Dordrecht 2012. 3 4.1.4. The Mathematics of the Models of Reference (with G. Rossi and J. Tagliabue), College Publications, London 2010. 4.1.5. There’s Something About Gödel, Wiley-Blackwell, Oxford 2009. 4.1.6. How to Sell a Contradiction. The Logic and Metaphysics of Inconsistency, College Publications, London 2007. In Italian 4.1.7. Logica con i social network [Logic with Social Networks] (with M. Plebani), Carocci, Rome 2019. 4.1.8. Che cos’è una contraddizione? [What is a Contradiction?] (with L. Bottai), Carocci, Rome 2015. 4.1.9. L’esistenza non è logica [Existence is No Logic], Laterza, Rome 2010. 4.1.10. Tutti pazzi per Gödel. La guida completa al Teorema di Incompletezza [Crazy for Gödel. The Complete Guide to the Incompleteness Theorem], Laterza, Rome 2008. 4.1.11. Logica da zero a Gödel [Logic, from Zero to Gödel], Laterza, Rome 2007. 4.1.12. Teorie dell’assurdo. I rivali del Principio di Non-Contraddizione [Theories of the Absurd. The Rivals of the Law of Non-Contradiction], Foreword by Graham Priest, Carocci, Rome 2006. 4.1.13. Che cos’è la dialettica hegeliana? Un’interpretazione analitica del metodo [What is Hegel’s Dialectics? An Analytic Reading of the Method], Foreword by Diego Marconi, Poligrafo, Padua 2005. 4.1.14. La dialettica della struttura originaria [The Dialectics of the Basic Structure], Foreword by Emanuele Severino, Poligrafo, Padua 2003. 4.2. Papers in Journals In English 4.2.1. “Voluntary Imagination: a Fine-Grained Analysis”, Review of Symbolic Logic (forthcoming 2020, with I. Canavotto and A. Giordani). 4.2.2. “The Fundamental Problem of Logical Omniscience”, Journal of Philosophical Logic (on line first 2019, with P. Hawke and A. Özgün). 4.2.3. “The Logic of Fast and Slow Thinking”, Erkenntnis (on line first 2019, with A. Solaki and S. Smets). 4.2.4. “Knowability Relative to Information”, Mind (on line first 2018, with P. Hawke). 4.2.5. “Taming the Runabout Imagination Ticket”, Synthese (on line first 2018). 4.2.6. “Modal Meinongianism and Object Theory: a Reply to Bueno and Zalta”, Australasian Journal of Logic 17(2020): 1-21 (with G. Priest, K. Tanaka and F. Casati). 4.2.7. “Negation on the Australian Plan”, Journal of Philosophical Logic 48(2019): 1119-44 (with G. Restall). 4.2.8. “Simple Hyperintensional Belief Revision”, Erkenntnis 84(2019): 559–75. 4.2.9. “Truth in Fiction, Impossible Worlds, and Belief Revision”, Australasian Journal of Philosophy 97(2019): 178-93 (with C. Badura). 4.2.10. “Aboutness in Imagination”, Philosophical Studies 175(2018): 1871-86. 4.2.11. “Conceivability and Possibility: Some Dilemmas for Humeans”, Synthese 195(2018): 2697-715 (with T. Schoonen). 4.2.12. “Williamson on Counterpossibles”, Journal of Philosophical Logic 47(2018): 693-713 (with R. French, G. Priest and D. Ripley). 4.2.13. “Impossible Worlds and the Logic of Imagination”, Erkenntnis 82(2017): 1277-97.
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