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The University of St Andrews is seeking qualified candidates for a four-year postdoctoral research fellowship, to work with Prof. Franz Berto on the project “What If? Knowing by Imagining”. The job advertisement details are here <https://www.vacancies.st-andrews.ac.uk/Vacancies/W/3063/0/415911/889/research-fellow-ar2930ml> The application deadline is April 30, with a projected start date of January 1, 2025. A short description of the project and its aims follows. ‘What if?'-counterfactual questions are of momentous importance for scientific explanations (‘Would we see that particle track if the atom was ionized?’), to ascertain responsibilities (‘Would he have hit the brakes, had he not been distracted?’), to choose what to do (‘Would I get to the other side if I jumped the stream?’). We address them by imagining that a hypothetical situation obtains and wondering what would follow. But how can imagination give us knowledge of reality, if it's free departure from reality? WIKI will apply in the philosophy of imagination tools from formal epistemology, in particular epistemic and probabilistic logic, to address this issue. If we start by taking counterfactual imagination as a kind of simulated belief revision, we can then analyze it using formal theories of belief revision, in qualitative (focusing on full, all-or-nothing belief) and quantitative clothing (focusing on credences/degrees of belief). In three interrelated subprojects, WIKI will (1) develop a logic and formal epistemology of imagination as suppositional thinking, (2) apply them to analyse the workings of scientific thought experiments, and (3) compare them to empirical results from the psychology of reasoning, to provide an account of how we can become better hypothetical reasoners. Please feel free to forward this notice to any qualified candidates. Cheers, Greg -- Greg Restall [he/him] Shelby Cullom Davis Professor of Philosophy Director, Arché Philosophical Research Centre for Logic, Language, Metaphysics and Epistemology Department of Philosophy, University of St Andrews https://consequently.org -- LOGICA-L Lista acadêmica brasileira dos profissionais e estudantes da área de Lógica <logica-l@dimap.ufrn.br> --- Você está recebendo esta mensagem porque se inscreveu no grupo "LOGICA-L" dos Grupos do Google. Para cancelar inscrição nesse grupo e parar de receber e-mails dele, envie um e-mail para logica-l+unsubscr...@dimap.ufrn.br. Para acessar esta discussão na web, acesse https://groups.google.com/a/dimap.ufrn.br/d/msgid/logica-l/CAO6j_LjjC6Vc9%3DJ-XrVjHZJQWYReki4nzH5xwfMT1tUovziGtQ%40mail.gmail.com.
