Topics of Thought The Logic of Knowledge, Belief, Imagination

• Main Author: Berto, Francesco
• Format: eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Oxford Oxford University Press 2022
• Subjects: Belief revision; Conditional logic; Epistemic logic; Framing effects; Hyperintensionality; Imagination; Indicative conditionals; Modal logic; Philosophy; Philosophy and Religion; Philosophy: epistemology and theory of knowledge; Philosophy: logic; Subject matters; Suppositional thought; Topics in philosophy

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 intentiona...