Attic Philosophy

Dr Mark Jago (born: ), better known online as Attic Philosophy, is an English YouTuber who makes videos about metaphysics, language, logic, and social philosophy.
==Personal life==
Mark lives in Nottingham, England. He is a father. He has a brother.
He began doing research in a computer science department, working on logics in AI for reasoning about knowledge and belief. He is an Associate Professor at Nottingham University, having earned his PhD there in 2006. He teaches mostly logic classes.
Mark is a musician, and started playing the cello as a “lockdown project."
==YouTube==
The name Attic Philosophy comes from the fact that Mark records in his attic. Mark uploaded his first video on January 29, 2014.
==Books==
===The Impossible===
In this book, Mark presents a philosophical account of meaningful thought: in particular, how it is meaningful to think about impossible things. He argues that “we often gain new information, new beliefs and, sometimes, fresh knowledge through logic, mathematics and philosophy.”
===Impossible Worlds===
In this book, Mark and Francesco Berto consider what “meaning, information, knowledge, belief, fiction, conditionality, and counterfactual supposition have in common.” To understand these concepts, they propose “a metaphysical, logical, and conceptual grasp of situations that could not possibly exist: Impossible Worlds.” 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. This is an open access title available under the terms of a CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 International licence. It is free to read at Oxford Scholarship Online and offered as a free PDF download from OUP and selected open access locations.
===What Truth Is===
In this book, Mark presents and defends a theory of what truth is, in terms of the metaphysical notion of truthmaking. The first part of the book discusses the property being true, and “how we should understand it in terms of truthmaking.” The second part focuses on truthmakers, “the worldly entities which make various kinds of truths true, and how they do so.” He argues for “a metaphysics of states of affairs.” The third part “analyses the logic and metaphysics of the truthmaking relation itself, and links it to the metaphysical concept of grounding.” The fourth and final part “discusses consequences of the theory for language and logic.”
===Reality Making===
This is an edited collection of papers written by contemporary metaphysics. They address fundamental questions about reality.
==Subscriber milestones==
*1,000 subscribers: July 16, 2020
==References==
Category:Educational YouTubers
Category:English YouTubers
Category:Users who joined in 2014