{"product_id":"impossible-worlds-hardcover","title":"Impossible Worlds - Hardcover","description":"\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eFrancesco Berto\u003c\/b\u003e (Author), \u003cb\u003eMark Jago\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWe need to understand the impossible. Francesco Berto and Mark Jago start by considering what the concepts of meaning, information, knowledge, belief, fiction, conditionality, and counterfactual supposition have in common. They are all concepts which divide the world up more finely than logic does. Logically equivalent sentences may carry different meanings and information and may differ in how they're believed. Fictions can be inconsistent yet meaningful. We can suppose impossible things without collapsing into total incoherence. Yet for the leading philosophical theories of meaning, these phenomena are an unfathomable mystery. To understand these concepts, we need a metaphysical, logical, and conceptual grasp of situations that could not possibly exist: \u003cem\u003eImpossible Worlds\u003c\/em\u003e. This book discusses the metaphysics of impossible worlds and applies the concept to a range of central topics and open issues in logic, semantics, and philosophy. It considers problems in the logic of\u003cbr\u003eknowledge, the meaning of alternative logics, models of imagination and mental simulation, the theory of information, truth in fiction, the meaning of conditional statements, and reasoning about the impossible. In all these cases, impossible worlds have an essential role to play.\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003eFrancesco Berto, \u003cem\u003eProfessor of Logic and Metaphysics \/ ILLC Research Chair, University of St Andrews \/ University of Amsterdam\u003c\/em\u003e, Mark Jago, \u003cem\u003eAssociate Professor of Philosophy, University of Nottingham\u003c\/em\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eFrancesco Berto is Professor of Logic and Metaphysics at the University of St Andrews and Research Chair at the Institute for Logic, Language and Computation (ILLC) at the University of Amsterdam. He has also worked at the Universities of Notre Dame, Aberdeen, Padua, Venice, Lugano, and at the Sorbonne-Ecole Normale Superieure of Paris. He works on ontology, logic, epistemology, and the philosophy of computation. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eMark Jago is an Associate Professor in Philosophy at the University of Nottingham. Before that, he was a postdoctoral fellow at Macquarie University in Sydney, Australia. He mainly writes on metaphysics, logic, epistemology, and philosophy of language. His previous books are \u003cem\u003eThe Impossible\u003c\/em\u003e (Oxford 2014), \u003cem\u003eReality Making\u003c\/em\u003e (Oxford 2016, as editor), and \u003cem\u003eWhat Truth Is\u003c\/em\u003e (Oxford 2018).\u003cbr\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 336\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 1 x 8.6 x 5.7 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e August 06, 2019\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Books by splitShops","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":42684826419263,"sku":"9780198812791","price":188.1,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0105\/8226\/1823\/files\/d28d010cc0a9cc9f69ca6874271be419.webp?v=1764968784","url":"https:\/\/dhl-adrianne.myshopify.com\/products\/impossible-worlds-hardcover","provider":"BBB","version":"1.0","type":"link"}